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eavesdropping

/eevz-drop/US // ˈivzˌdrɒp //UK // (ˈiːvzˌdrɒp) //

窃听,偷听,窃听行为,监听

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    eaves·dropped, eaves·drop·ping.

    • : to listen secretly to a private conversation.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    eaves·dropped, eaves·drop·ping.

    • : Archaic. to eavesdrop on.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Also eaves·drip [eevz-drip]. /ˈivzˌdrɪp/.

    • : water that drips from the eaves.
    • : the ground on which such water falls.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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.

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