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eavesdrop

英 [ˈiːvzdrɒp]

美 [ˈiːvzdrɑːp]

v.  偷听,窃听(其他人谈话)
n.  檐水

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Collins.1 / BNC.19789 / COCA.14900

牛津词典

    verb

    • 偷听,窃听(其他人谈话)
      to listen secretly to what other people are saying
      1. We caught him eavesdropping outside the window.
        我们撞见他正在窗外偷听。

    柯林斯词典

    • VERB 偷听;窃听
      If youeavesdrop onsomeone, you listen secretly to what they are saying.
      1. The government illegally eavesdropped on his telephone conversations...
        政府非法窃听了他的电话。
      2. The housemaid eavesdropped from behind the kitchen door.
        女佣在厨房门后偷听。

    英英释义

    verb

    • listen without the speaker's knowledge
      1. the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations
      Synonym:listen in

    双语例句

    • Now you can eavesdrop from a safe distance with the Orbitor Electronic Listening Device.
      现在你可以用这个电子装置在一个安全的距离。
    • Used to be if spies wanted to eavesdrop, they planted a bug.
      在以前,间碟想要窃听的话都需要植入一个窃听器。
    • This suggests Skype would need to build a back door to allow intelligence services to track who is talking to whom and, provided they have a warrant, to eavesdrop on the content of those conversations.
      这意味着,Skype将需要建立一个后门,使情报机构得以追踪交谈的双方是谁,并且在已取得搜查证的情况下,还可以窃听谈话的内容。
    • Although the aim is to provide physicists with a new analysis tool, Arthur Endrich believes that it may also enable us to eavesdrop on the underlying sound of the universe.
      尽管这个(实验的)目的是为物理学家提供一个新的分析手段,但阿瑟恩德瑞奇相信它能够让我们偷听到宇宙的潜在的声音。
    • A network intruder could eavesdrop on packets being sent across a network or send fictitious messages.
      一个网络入侵者能够窃听到在网络上传输的数据包的信息,或者向其它计算机发送虚假信息。
    • Go to a caf é frequented by artists and eavesdrop on their conversation.
      多和那些有创造性的人在一起。多和艺术家一起去咖啡馆,听听他们的谈话。
    • I could have sworn several people behind us were walking close enough to eavesdrop.
      我可以发誓有好几个人紧跟在我们后面,近得都能偷听到我们对话。
    • The housemaid eavesdropped from behind the kitchen door.
      女佣在厨房门后偷听。
    • He ensconced himself in the closet in order to eavesdrop.
      他藏在壁橱里,以便偷听。
    • Those guys like to eavesdrop on ordinary Chinese citizens.
      这些家伙窃听普通中国公民上了瘾。