| 词汇 | prying |
| 释义 | prying present participle ofpry pry verb uk /praɪ/ us /praɪ/ pryverb (ASK QUESTIONS)[ I ]disapproving to try to find out private facts about a person: 探听，打听（隐私） As a reporter, I was paid to pry into other people's lives.作为一个记者，我拿取报酬去窥探他人的生活。 I hope you don't think I'm prying, but has your boyfriend ever lived with anyone before?我希望你不会觉得我是在打探你的私生活——你男朋友以前和什么人同居过吗？ She wanted a private holiday away from prying eyes(= where no one would be trying to see her).她想过一个属于自己的假期，避开那些刺探的目光。 Questioning people & asking questions in general ask after someone ask questions of someone/somethingidiom be someone's for the askingidiom beat something out of someone bombard consultative Gallup poll inquisition inquisitor outpoll pin someone down ply someone with something poll pry put someone through the millidiom put someone through the wringeridiom quiz shoot survey trick question pryverb (OPEN)[ T ]mainly US to move or lift something by pressing a tool against a fixed point: 撬开，撬起 [ + adj ]The car trunk had been pried open and all her equipment was gone.汽车的行李箱被撬开了，她所有的装备都不见了。 Raising and lowering depress elevate elevated erect hike hike something up hoick hoist hold hold up jack prise prize pry put something up re-erect ride ride up run yo-yo Examples of pryingprying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Venues rotated so as to avoid the suspicions of prying neighbours. On 56 occasions, traps were damaged, mostly by armadillos, which escaped out of the traps by prying the door open. With their asymmetry, peering heads and prying beaks, the birds have an amusing and sometimes ironic anthropomorphism. And the creation of a full factual record on any social problem typically involves prying out information that other people are zealously committed to keeping private. However, we are perplexed by the suggestion that metaphysicians may have distinctive tools over and above those available to scientists for "prying" such gaps in any direction at all. Secondly, it might be objectionable by prying into family arrangements under which the dwellinghouse is being constructed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We on this side would like nothing better than to avoid prying. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 During recent years there has been a great increase in the amount of spying and prying into our personal secrets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She bought another property backing on to hers so as to protect her son from the prying eyes of neighbours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one is exempt from this sort of policy of prying into his own individual affairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My prying eyes were not able to find them out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It occasionally results in social workers being accused of prying into issues that they should not investigate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Talk about investigation—it is not investigation: it is prying. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a very fine principle in all educational establishments, and keeps a lot of prying eyes out of the way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wonder whether this will mean that we can expect some protection of privacy from excessive media prying—eventually through case law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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