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  *偷* | 偷* | *偷
to steal / to pilfer / to snatch / thief / stealthily
HSK 5
stealthily / secretly / covertly / furtively / on the sly
HSK 5
erhua variant of 小偷
HSK 5
to peep / to peek / to act as voyeur
HSK 7-9
to goof off / to be lazy
HSK 7-9
to peep / to peek / to steal a glance
HSK 7-9
to take a picture of a person without permission or without their knowledge
to laugh up one's sleeve
thief
to drift and live without purpose (idiom); to drag out an ignoble existence
to mount a sneak attack / to raid
to steal
illegal immigration / to stowaway (on a ship) / to steal across the international border / to run a blockade
to eat on the sly / to pilfer food / to be unfaithful
tax evasion
to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom) / jerry-building / sloppy work
to steal / to pilfer
master thief
to substitute on the sly
to carry on a clandestine love affair
(idiom) surreptitious; sneaky
to eavesdrop / to monitor (secretly)
to cheat on one's spouse / to have an affair
to snatch a moment of leisure / to take a break from work / also written 偷閒|偷闲
to snatch a moment of leisure / to take a break from work
to engage in fraudulent activities (idiom) / skulduggery / to hoodwink people / to cheat sb audaciously
to live without purpose
lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column / to replace the original with a fake / to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)
to poach
to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs
lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom) / fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship
to smuggle
lit. stolen scent, pilfered jade (idiom); philandering / secret illicit sex
habitual thief
to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom)
to take some time out / to make use of a spare moment
to take a furtive look at
seeking only ease and comfort (idiom); making no attempt to improve oneself / taking things easily without attending to responsibilities
to shirk responsibility / thoughtless pleasure-seeking
surreptitious; sneaky
to evade (taxes)
to sneak off; to slip away / (sports) to jump the gun; to make a false start / (fig.) to jump the gun; to start doing sth before it's allowed / (of a movie, game etc) to be leaked before the official release
to dump illegally
to steal techniques; to learn secretly from sb else's skills or methods
to skimp on the job / to avoid work
to steal / to make off with / stolen
to steal
to surreptitiously add (sth that shouldn't be there)
(of a woman) to take a lover
thief
poacher
to skive off work / to be lazy
"monkey steals the peach" (martial arts), distracting an opponent with one hand and seizing his testicles with the other / (coll.) grabbing sb by the balls
to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom)
lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom) / fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off / to go for wool and come back shorn
to be law-abiding (idiom)
much worse than having something stolen is when a thief has you in his sights (idiom)
smuggled illegal alien / stowaway
(of a woman) to take a lover
voyeur / peeping tom


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