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To pilfer is to steal little things that are not worth much — a pen, snacks, coins from a till — especially from work or from a place you already have a right to be. It is a quieter, slightly newspaper-like word for that small, sneaky taking. It is stronger than “borrow and forget,” but it is not robbery with force, and it is not a huge crime in the story you are telling. Workplace pilfering is the classic picture: someone helping themselves, again and again, to what is lying around.
順手牽羊、偷拿小東西（尤指在工作場所）
組成From older English pilfre, from Middle English pilfre (“booty”), from Old French pelfre (“plunder, spoils”). Where that French word came from is unknown. Dictionaries also point to pelf, an old word for money.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pilferverb/ˈpɪl.fə/
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To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
- pilfer goods
- pilfer from a store
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。