糖果之类 meaning in English

candy

They tried to argue it away by reminding conscience that they had purloined sweetmeats and apples scores of times ; but conscience was not to be appeased by such thin plausibilities ; it seemed to them , in the end , that there was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only " hooking , " while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing - and there was a command against that in the bible
他们试图安抚自己的良心，说以往他们也多次偷过糖果和苹果，可是良心并不买这个帐。最后，他们似乎觉得有一个事实是不容回避的，那就是偷糖果之类不过是“顺阳手牵羊” ，而偷咸肉和火腿等贵重东西就正儿巴经是偷窃了圣经曾就此明文禁止过。