Pocket

(noun.) a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles.

(noun.) an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck.

(noun.) a small isolated group of people; 'they were concentrated in pockets inside the city'; 'the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance'.

(noun.) a supply of money; 'they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets'.

(noun.) (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left; 'the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike'.

(verb.) put in one's pocket; 'He pocketed the change'.

(verb.) take unlawfully.

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• If you have got the value of the stone in your pocket, answered Mr. Franklin, say so, Betteredge, and in it goes! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I have only one pocket-handkerchief, he added, but if I had twenty, I would offer you each one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In my haste I thrust the key into my pocket, and dropped my stick while I was chasing Teddy, who had run up the curtain. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants' dinner; he knew what it was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He rummaged in his coat pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted paper, he laid it out upon the table. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I'm awfully lopsided, you know, and stowed down in my pocket it'll trim the ship. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Soon after my arrival in the hovel, I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The marriage was scarcely in accord with the old man's wishes, for the bandmaster's pockets were as light as his occupation. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• His pockets were as full of it as his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Wemmick leaned back in his chair, staring at me, with his hands in the pockets of his trousers, and his pen put horizontally into the post. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It was well he did so; for Mr. Legree, having refitted Tom's handcuffs, proceeded deliberately to investigate the contents of his pockets. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Master Bardell put his hands deeper down into his pockets, and nodded exactly thirty-five times, to imply that it was the lady-lodger, and no other. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• After a moment's wrestle with him, Flintwinch gave up, and put his hands in his pockets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• There is a dreadful amount of forcible scrubbing and arranging and pocketing implied in some socialisms. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But I suppose you're too busy pocketing the ready money, to think of the debtors, eh? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A pick-pocketing case, your worship. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It was too late to do it now, however; so he shook his head gravely, and, pocketing the five guineas, withdrew. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He pocketed the letter, and, bowing to Eustacia, went away. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• And Christian went back and privately pocketed them. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The hasp snapped sharply in its hole, and Miss Ophelia turned the key, and pocketed it in triumph. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He locked the desk, pocketed all the property, and went. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Christian pocketed the moneybags, promised the greatest carefulness, and set out on his way. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The cheque was written by the little gentleman, and pocketed by Mr. Jingle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• But there were more accidents and more delays in travel by coach than by train, and so, one by one, they pocketed their pride and capitulated. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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