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Snoop Snooper House Time Prying Verb 动词 Secretly

英语单词 snoop
英美音标 英 [snuːp] 美 [snuːp]
中文释义 n.窥探者;到处窥视
vi.窥探;打听
英语例句 (1) A good snoop would have sat behind the man's desk, looked under it for piles of shoes, rummaged through the bin.
(2) He had a snoop around her office.
(3) You should not snoop around in other people's files.
(4) The house perfects often snoop around our campus at night.
(5) Her plan to snoop on the kids backfired and they lost their trust in her.
(6) I head back to his trailer for a little snoop work.
中文例句 (1) 优秀的窥探者会坐到办公桌后面去,看看下面有没有成堆的鞋子,翻翻垃圾筒里都有些什么。
(2) 他在她的办公室窥探一番。
(3) 不可偷看他人的档案。
(4) 学生纠察队经常夜间在校园里巡逻。
(5) 她窥探孩子行动的计划得不偿失,反而失去了他们的信任。
(6) 我返回他的拖车,做了一些侦查工作。
vocabulary简明 When you snoop, you poke around in someone else's business. A teenager might snoop in her sister's room, looking for her diary.
vocabulary扩展 You snoop when you rustle through someone's garbage looking for love letters, and if you spy on your neighbor through the curtains, you also snoop. In fact, if you spend enough time doing this, you'll be called a snoop — a sneaky busybody. The earliest meaning of snoop, "to go around in a prying manner," comes from the Dutch word snoepen, "to pry."
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]窥探;刺探;打探 If someone snoops around a place, they secretly look around it in order to find out things.
  [V adv/prep]
  [Also V]
  • Ricardo was the one she'd seen snooping around Kim's hotel room.

    她看见在金的宾馆房间周围窥探的那个人正是里卡多。

  • Snoop is also a noun.
    • The second house that Grossman had a snoop around contained 'strong simple furniture'.

      格罗斯曼打探过的第二座房子有着“结实而简单的家具”。

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  • St Barth's strange lack of street names is meant to dissuade journalistic snoopers.

    圣巴思这个地方非常奇怪,街道居然没有名称,其实这样做就是为了打消记者刺探新闻的念头。

2
[VERB 动词]窥探(某人的生活) If someone snoops on a person, they watch them secretly in order to find out things about their life.
  [V on n]
  • Governments have been known to snoop on innocent citizens.

    有些政府窥探无辜公民的生活——这一事实已经众所周知。

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  • You bloody snooper! All the time you've been talking to me you've been prying into my family.

    你这个包打听的无耻小人!你一直跟我喋喋不休,就是为了刺探我的家庭隐私!

3
[N-COUNT 可数名词]同 snooper A snoop is the same as a snooper .
  • Each neighborhood had its own organization of snoops who reported strangers to the authorities.

    每个居民区都有自己的侦探组织,他们向当局汇报陌生人的情况。

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