| 词汇 | snooped |
| 释义 | snooped past simple and past participle ofsnoop snoop verb[ Iusually+ adv/prep ] informaldisapprovinguk /snuːp/ us /snuːp/ to look around a place secretly, in order to discover things or find out information about someone or something: 窥探，打探 People were sent out to snoop on rival businesses.派出了人员去打探竞争对手的情况。 She's the sort of person you can imagine snooping about your room when you're not there.她是那种会趁你不在而偷进你房间的人。 to try to find out about other people's private lives: （对别人的私生活）窥探 I don't mean to snoop, but is there something wrong?我不是想打探你的私生活，不过是不是出了什么事？ Clara's husband is snooping on her because he thinks she is seeing another man.克拉拉的丈夫正在打探她的私生活，因为他认为她在跟另外一个男人交往。 International relations: spying and espionage agent agent provocateur anti-bug asset debug industrial espionage insider intel intelligence MI5 operative scout secret service sleuthing snoop snoopy spook spy tail the CIA Examples of snoopedsnooped In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Living in close proximity to each other, neighbours or residents will be snooped upon, discussed in great detail, and perhaps even ridiculed. Despite the use of passwords, confidentiality might be breached on the internet and mobile phone conversations have been snooped on. Why do they have to be snooped on if they are doing a legal act? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The cost therefore worked out at over £1 per person snooped. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These devices are such that those people who are being snooped upon—for that is exactly what it is—may not know what is happening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Since then the expenditure has gone up to £100,000, but we are not told whether the cost per person snooped is the same or not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not only is he to be treated in this clandestine way, but apparently he is to be snooped on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On the second day out, an enemy twin-engine bomber snooped the task force and received a hail of fire from some of the screening destroyers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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