As you might expect, this fib collapsed at the gentlest probing, and I reluctantly returned what I had pilfered.

正如大家所想的，这个小谎言在温和的查探中，而我也不情愿地归还了偷的东西。

But hungry elephants keep returning to pilfer cropland at night in India.

但在印度，饥饿的大象夜间还会再度偷袭庄稼地。

Or perhaps Mundungus, who had pilfered plenty from this house both before and after Sirius died?

还是蒙顿格斯，那个在小天狼星生前和死后都从这屋里偷走大量东西的小偷？

Sharks up the food chain take their cut, leaving local pirates to pilfer crews' watches and mobiles.

他们敲诈食物链获取保护费，这让当地海盗偷窃船员的手表和手机。

Researchers tested the circumstances under which lemurs would pilfer food from people.

研究人员测试了狐猴偷窃人类食物的情景。

This may be impossible; whether the gold returns to Crimea or to Kiev, each side will accuse the Dutch of pilfering.

最终归还于克里米亚或是基辅，每一方都将指责荷兰的偷窃行为，这或许不可能发生。

Ah! Now I know where he goes to pilfer iron filings, which he sells for old papers, that barterer of a Garoffi!

哦！我知道了，卡洛斐时常卖炉屑去换旧报纸，原来是从这里拿去的！

We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack.

所以我勒索，我偷窃，我毫不在乎。

In November police in the north Pennines held a kind of reverse identification parade, asking farmers if any sheep recovered from thieves had been pilfered from their fields.

十一月，奔宁山北部的警察举办了一个类似反向识别的游行，问农场主是否有羊从他们的农场偷走。