spy
高中,四级,六级,考研,1
英[spaɪ]
|美[spaɪ]
n.间谍;密探
vt.看见;秘密监视;精心调查
vi.当间谍;从事间谍活动;暗中监视;详察
日语:スパイ
法语:espionner
德语:Spion
韩语:스파이
俄语:espiar
牛津词典
noun
- 间谍;密探
a person who tries to get secret information about another country, organization, or person, especially sb who is employed by a government or the police
- He was denounced as a foreign spy.
有人告发他是外国间谍。 - a police spy
警方密探 - a spy plane/satellite (= used to watch the activities of the enemy)
间谍飞机 / 卫星 - Video spy cameras are being used in public places.
隐蔽的摄像机在监视着公共场所。
verb
- 从事间谍活动;搜集情报
to collect secret information about another country, organization or person
- He spied for his government for more than ten years.
他做过十多年的政府间谍。
- 突然看见;发现
to suddenly see or notice sb/sth
- In the distance we spied the Pacific for the first time.
在远处,我们突然第一次看到了太平洋。
词形变化
名词复数形式:spies 现在分词:spying 过去式:spied 过去分词:spied 第三人称单数:spies
中文词源
spy 间谍,密探
来自古法语 espiier,观察,仔细看,偷看,来自 Proto-Germanic*spehona,注视,观察,来自 PIE*spek,看,观看,词源同 spectate,telescope.引申词义间谍,密探。
双语例句
- Once they had ascertained that he was not a spy, they agreed to release him
一旦确认他并非间谍,他们即同意将他释放。
- The young man looked embarrassed, as if he were a spy whose cover had been blown.
那个年轻人看起来局促不安,就好像他是一个身份暴露的间谍一样。
- The spy returned to deliver a second batch of classified documents
那名间谍返回来递送第二批机密文件。
- They're using villagers to keep an eye on each other, to spy on each other.
他们利用村民互相监视,互相窥探。
- The spy ring passed secrets to the enemy.
该间谍团伙向敌方传送秘密情报。
- The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years
该特工人员为东德做了20多年的间谍。
- East and West are still spying on one another
东西方仍在互相进行间谍活动。
- I never agreed to spy against the United States.
我从来没有答应去当间谍刺探美国的情报。
- That day he spied on her while pretending to work on the shrubs
那天,他假装在修剪灌木,秘密对她进行监视。
- He had his wife spied on for evidence in a divorce case.
他请人秘密监视自己的妻子,为离婚案搜集证据。
- He was walking down the street when he spied an old friend.
他正沿街走着,突然看见了一位老朋友。
- The spy attempted to escape to a neighbouring country.
那个间谍企图出逃到邻国去。
- The spy sent his message in code.
这个间谍用密码发送情报。
- He is a spy beyond all doubt.
毫无疑义,他是个间谍。
- The spy's disguise was soon penetrated.
间谍的伪装不久便被识破了。
- The spy was caught by a policewoman who posed as a prostitute.
间谍被一个假扮妓女的女警察抓住了。
- They expelled a foreign spy from their country.
他们把一个外国间谍驱逐出境。
- His assignment was to follow the spy.
分配给他的工作是跟踪这个间谍。
- A spy used cunning means to find out secrets.
间谍使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
- The police had captured a foreign spy.
警方抓获了一名外国间谍。
- I dumped the spy who followed up me.
我把跟踪我的间谍甩了!
- I suspect him to be a spy.
我怀疑他是一个间谍。
- Woman's clothes and hair formed the spy's disguise.
女人的衣服和头发成了这名间谍的伪装。
- They discovered a spy acting in collusion with their competitors.
他们发现了一个和他们的竞争者私下串通的间谍。
- The militiamen have caught a spy.
民兵抓着了一个特务。
- They executed a spy.
他们处死了一个间谍。
- So I told him that I was a spy.
所以我告诉他我是间谍。
- Are you a Russian spy?
你是不是个俄国间谍?
- The little spy smiled.
小间谍笑了。
语源
Middle English: shortening of Old French espieespying, espierespy, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin specerebehold, look