| 词汇 | snooping |
| 释义 | snooping present 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 snoopingsnooping In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nor should there be any snooping through medical records, or entry into areas of the workplace that genuine patients do not ordinarily observe. But again, the effects of data snooping become more pronounced at longer horizon. Of course, both implicit and explicit maximization of predictability are forms of data snooping or data mining and may bias classical statistical inferences. Some of the more established tenants viewed gossip as a feature of social decline, sometimes singling out particular people as snooping busy-bodies, whose presence undermined the generally convivial atmosphere. Generally speaking, people do not keep churns in their houses, so that any snooping about churns probably would not be of a domestic character. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It does not involve snooping in any way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not a case of snooping around asking for things sub rosa. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Apparently the result of the snooping is to be reported to higher levels. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I rather resent the use of the word "snooping" in this respect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such rules inevitably have the flavour of snooping. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that time the monopolies had staffs of people going round "snooping," although we did not use that word in those days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Since her promotion, has she been employed on snooping duties, and if so how many convictions has she obtained? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know what the word "snooping" is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The privatisation of surveillance and snooping should therefore have been approached with great sensitivity and care—but far from it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no question of snooping about that. 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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