eavesdropping
窃听,偷听,窃听行为,监听
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Definitions
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eaves·dropped, eaves·drop·ping.
- : to listen secretly to a private conversation.
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eaves·dropped, eaves·drop·ping.
- : Archaic. to eavesdrop on.
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Also eaves·drip [eevz-drip]. /ˈivzˌdrɪp/.
- : water that drips from the eaves.
- : the ground on which such water falls.
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Examples
A few years ago, I was standing in a queue behind two men and eavesdropping on their conversation.
He lambasted the NSA for its over-zealous data grabs, and its unrestrained eavesdropping on average Americans.
Think spy satellites, stealth bombers, next-missile-spotting radars, next-gen drones, and ultra-powerful eavesdropping gear.
The intelligence community knows this, he said, from insights gleaned from eavesdropping on the night of the attack.
But Schiff also said sometimes eavesdropping has its limits as well.
I thought she had come to her right senses, at last, and was making the shift to break off the eavesdropping.
He persists, then sees his mother in private, kills a courtier who was eavesdropping, and convicts his mother of her sin.
Relieved, yet ashamed of his eavesdropping, he ran down the road toward his home.
Paul had heard of people who actually deemed eavesdropping unbecoming!
It was secure from any but forcible entrance, and eavesdropping from outside would be worse than useless.