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词汇 eavesdrop
释义 eavesdrop
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈiːvz.drɒp/ us /ˈiːvz.drɑːp/-pp-
to listen to someone's private conversation from close by without them knowing:
eavesdrop onHe was eavesdropping on our conversation.他在偷听我们谈话。
He beckoned me into a little side room where no one could eavesdrop.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to listen to someone or something
listenAre you listening to me? I'm talking to you.
hearAn audience gathered to hear him speak.
eavesdropHe was eavesdropping on our conversation.
listen in onI wish my brother would stop listening in on my phone calls.
hear someone outAt least hear me out before you make up your mind.
to listen to someone without them knowing using an electronic listening device, for example attached to a telephone line:
The intelligence agency was instructed to eavesdrop and collect information to be analysed by other agencies.
Police need a warrant if they want to eavesdrop on telephone conversations.
to steal private information by secretly picking up an electronic signal or entering a computer system:
This vulnerability allows an attacker to eavesdrop on wireless traffic and collect enough information to bypass the secret shared authentication key.
I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but I heard you mention my name.
I sat at the next table trying desperately to eavesdrop.
Have you eavesdropped on any good gossip lately?
The government has more power than ever to eavesdrop on its citizens.
How many big companies eavesdrop on employees' personal e-mail conversations?
Your privacy is guaranteed, as the signal is encrypted and cannot be eavesdropped on.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Using the ears
attend
aurally
be all earsidiom
binaural
binaurally
catch
cloth ears
ear
earshot
eavesdropper
hark
hearing
hearken
lend an earidiom
listenable
monaural
monaurally
non-auditory
overhear
prick

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eavesdrop | American Dictionary


eavesdrop
verb[ I ]
us/ˈivzˌdrɑp/-pp-
to listen secretly to someone’s private conversation

Examples of eavesdrop


eavesdrop
On stage, the other characters eavesdrop shamelessly and voice their comments.
I began to seek out sources of comprehensible input, eavesdropping (harmlessly!) when alone on trains or in coffee shops.
Such monitoring can be performed through explicit queries, environmental observations or by eavesdropping on communication, which can reduce the increased communication usually associated with teams.
It is like eavesdropping on a hushed conversation between brass players, and rather gives the lie to a devil-may-care attitude.
Their ' ' birds ' ' have the capability to spot car number plates and individuals as well as eavesdrop on millions of faxes, emails and telephone calls.
Characters do not tell us how they feel, but we are instead privileged to eavesdrop on their process of thought.
As a listener, one almost appears to be eavesdropping.
Hosts, agents and other entities are vulnerable to a number of attacks ranging from eavesdropping communications to stealing sensitive and private data and inflicting damage by design through viruses.
This fact alone imbues the recording with that unique affect we sometimes find hidden in old photographs, the feeling that we are spying or eavesdropping on the dead.
Detectives will he able, if the draft goes ahead, to eavesdrop on doctors, psychiatrists, social workers and journalists.
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In 1351, in the famous statute which inaugurated the justice of the peace, it was made an offence to eavesdrop.
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Included, too, would be one's picture, either from a passport photograph or from a casual camera; and one's eavesdropped conversations.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It is possible to eavesdrop on conversations and to investigate e-mails and other technologies at some considerable distance.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We know that in the past, sometimes legitimately, police officers have eavesdropped on cell conversations between prisoners.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
There is no right whatsoever to eavesdrop pointlessly for titillation.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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