1·My father is a police man. His job is catch thief.
我的父亲是一名警察,他的工作是抓小偷。
2·To set a thief to catch a thief, that is what we call “to counteract one toxin with another”.
叫小偷去抓小偷, 这就叫 “以毒攻毒”。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
3·They always came to me with newer ideas of how to catch the thief. Their next idea is to do something so when the newspaper is taken, there will be some noise to wake them up.
他们经常到我这里报告他们的捉贼新计划,下一个计划是报纸被偷时他们要采取措施,到时他们会被某种响声弄醒。
4·Inspired, it seems, by Britain and America's robot planes in Afghanistan, the Liverpool cops used a remote-control helicopter fitted with CCTV (of course) to catch a car thief.
也许是受到英美在阿富汗战场上使用自动控制飞机的启发,利物浦警察用装有闭路电视(当然应该装)的远程遥控直升飞机抓偷车贼。
5·When the Myers realized that the bag was missing, they decided to check the picture that was taken some minutes before and as they suspected, they did catch the thief on a camera.
当梅尔一家意识到包不见了,他们决定看看几分钟前拍摄的照片,正如他们所怀疑,他们真的在相机上看到小偷在偷他们的东西。
6·It is like police trying to catch a thief.
这就像警察捉小偷一样不简单。
7·NEW Delhi - NEW Delhi, India - They say it takes a thief to catch a thief, but India's Delhi Metro has hired a monkey to frighten off other monkeys from boarding trains and upsetting passengers.
常言道,“以其人之道还制其人之身”,印度新德里地铁公司就雇佣来一只猴子吓唬其它登上地铁骚扰乘客的猴子。
8·The police worked out a plan to catch the thief.
警察订下了计划捉贼。
9·The policeman is talking with the thief about how to catch the other thieves.
那个警察正在和小偷谈论如何抓住剩下的小偷。
10·If the night a thief, as long as the thief climb a wall will be automatically catch up.
如果晚上有小偷,只要小偷一爬上墙就会被自动的抓起来。