spy 的 3 个定义
plural spies.
- a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- a person who keeps close and secret watch on the actions and words of another or others.
- a person who seeks to obtain confidential information about the activities, plans, methods, etc., of an organization or person, especially one who is employed for this purpose by a competitor: an industrial spy.
- the act of spying.
spied, spy·ing.
- to observe secretively or furtively with hostile intent.
- to act as a spy; engage in espionage.
- to be on the lookout; keep watch.
- to search for or examine something closely or carefully.
spied, spy·ing.
- to catch sight of suddenly; espy; descry: to spy a rare bird overhead.
- to discover or find out by observation or scrutiny.
- to observe secretively or furtively with hostile intent.
- to inspect or examine or to search or look for closely or carefully.
spy 近义词
person who secretly finds out about another's business
secretly follow, watch another's actions
更多spy例句
- She’s completely won Emily over by volunteering to act as her socialite spy.
- Many have turned to VPNs, or virtual private networks, thinking that they can protect you from snoopers and spies.
- However, recruiting and retaining the talent capable of building these tools is a challenge on many levels, especially since a spy agency can’t match Silicon Valley salaries, reputations, and patents.
- Tenet, a time-travel spy thriller starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, was originally slated as a summerlong “tentpole” release, expected to be among the highest-grossing movies of the year.
- Normally, silence and secrecy are inherent in the spy business.
- It is a spy series at its core, but you guys never really pull from the headlines.
- The highly anticipated sixth season of the hilarious spy-spoof will premiere on FX at 10 pm EST on January 8, 2015.
- And after the film premiered in Telluride, you were accused by Iran State Media of being a “Zionist” CIA spy.
- “Once a spy, always a spy,” his friend responded; this was a common Soviet saying.
- That alliance between the spy agency and the military, forged in Iraq, would forever change the way America fights wars.
- It was a fact that Amy Drew often saw humor where her chum 98 could not spy anything in the least laughable.
- Valence sent a woman, disguised as a beggar, to spy out the position; but Bruce saw through the dodge, and the spy confessed.
- To spy out the land with a naval telescope over a mile of sea means taking a lot on trust as we learned to our cost on April 25th.
- Many a spy of the Kaiser had tried to pry there and had been arrested and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.
- Nobody guessed where the King of Asturia was, and the spy had gone off on a false errand altogether.