- 1順手牽羊
To shoplift is to take something from a shop without paying for it — hiding it in a bag, under clothes, or walking out as if you had paid. It is a crime, even when the thing is small.
To shoplift「shoplift」 is to take something from a shop就是從店裡拿走東西 without paying for it沒有付錢 hiding it in a bag, under clothes把它藏在袋子裡、藏在衣服底下 or walking out as if you had paid或是假裝已經付過錢那樣走出去。It is a crime這是一種犯罪 even when the thing is small就算東西很小也一樣
News, police, and shops use the word; it is the ordinary English for this kind of stealing, not a slang joke. You shoplift a thing, or you shoplift from a shop.
News, police, and shops新聞、警察和店家 use the word都會用這個詞 it is the ordinary English for this kind of stealing它是形容這種偷竊行為的普通英文說法 not a slang joke不是什麼俚語玩笑。You shoplift a thing你可以說shoplift一個東西 or you shoplift from a shop或說shoplift從某家店
The verb looks like shop + lift, and lift here is an old, quiet way to say steal. Though actually, English made this verb later, by cutting it out of the older person-word shoplifter.
The verb看這個動詞 looks like shop + lift長得就像shop加lift and lift here而這裡的lift is an old, quiet way to say steal是「偷」的一種古老、低調的說法。Though actually不過其實 English made this verb later英文是後來才造出這個動詞 by cutting it out of the older person-word shoplifter是從更早的人稱名詞shoplifter（順手牽羊的人）裡切出來的
The crime-name shoplifting is older still: people were already using it around 1690. So the family grew backwards — the person and the crime-name first, the verb after.
The crime-name shoplifting這個罪行的名稱shoplifting is older still還更早出現 people were already using it around 1690早在1690年左右人們就已經在用它了。So所以 the family grew backwards這個詞族是反著長出來的 the person and the crime-name first先有人稱名詞和罪行名稱 the verb after動詞是後來才有的
core核心畫面
組成The verb was cut out of the older word shoplifter (shop + lifter). That kind of later verb is called a back-formation.
同家族的字
- shopthe place the stealing happens
- shoplifterthe person-word this verb was cut from
- shopliftingthe crime-name; older than this verb
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
shopliftnoun/ˈʃɒplɪft/
- 1
obsoleteA shoplifter.
- 1704, John Dunton, The Athenian Oracle, Athenian Society, Volume III, page 67, […] and indeed it seems a Hardſhip in our Laws, that a poor Shoplift ſhou′d be hang′d for breaking in and pilfering a few Goods, […] .
shopliftverb/ˈʃɒplɪft/
- 1
To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.
- She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
- Week after week, racist posts appear on Thee Rant, a blog for current or former New York City police officers: African Americans are called “apes;” a retired officer says one of the blessings of retirement is not having to work the Puerto Rican Day parade, with its “old obese tatted up women stuffed into outfits that they purchased or shoplifted at the local Kmart store; […]
- 2
To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
- Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted, a boy of good family. That boy later shot a man.
- 1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community, Negro Digest, 22, Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc., etc.
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