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A shoplifter is a person who takes things from a shop without paying. That is the whole of it: not the act, and not the shop. News reports and shop signs use the word (“shoplifters will be prosecuted”). It is a plain, slightly official word, not a joke. From shop + lifter: a lifter here is someone who “lifts,” meaning steals. Though actually, many shoplifters are not professional thieves — some are people who hide one small thing on the way out — but the word itself does not sort those kinds. If you need the action, use the verb ; if you need the crime as a thing, use .
順手牽羊的人
組成From shop + lifter. A lifter here is a person who “lifts” things, in the old sense of stealing them.
同家族的字
- shopthe place this person steals from
- liftin older informal English, lift can mean steal; that is the piece here
- shopliftthe verb later cut from this person-word
- shopliftingthe crime this person commits
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。
shoplifternoun
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A person who shoplifts, one who steals from shops.
- Shoplifters will be prosecuted.
- The shoplifters are much less to be dreaded than the sneak, as they do not carry off cash, rarely any very valuable property […]
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。