Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense spies, present participle spying, past tense, past participle spied
1N-COUNT 间谍 A spy is a person whose job is to find out secret information about another country or organization. 间谍
He was jailed for five years as an alleged British spy.
他被指控为英国间谍,入狱关押了 5 年。
The spy ring passed secrets to the enemy.
该间谍团伙向敌方传送秘密情报。
SYN undercover agent, secret agent, double agent, secret service agent
2ADJ [ADJ n](卫星、飞机)执行间谍任务的 A spy satellite or spy plane obtains secret information about another country by taking photographs from the sky. (卫星、飞机)执行间谍任务的
3VERB 从事间谍活动;充当间谍 Someone who spies for a country or organization tries to find out secret information about another country or organization. 从事间谍活动;充当间谍
The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years. [VERB + for]
该特工人员为东德做了 20 多年的间谍。
East and West are still spying on one another. [VERB + on]
东西方仍在互相进行间谍活动。
I never agreed to spy against the United States. [VERB + against]
我从来没有答应去当间谍刺探美国的情报。
SYN be a spy, snoop [informal], gather intelligence, be engaged in spying
spying
...a ten-year sentence for spying.
因间谍罪判处的 10 年监禁
4VERB 秘密监视 If you spy on someone, you watch them secretly. 秘密监视
That day he spied on her while pretending to work on the shrubs. [VERB + on]
那天,他假装在修剪灌木,秘密对她进行监视。
He had his wife spied on for evidence in a divorce case. [VERBon noun]
ADJECTIVE | ... OF SPIES | VERB + SPY | SPY + VERB | SPY + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤enemy, foreign, government, industrial敵方/外國/政府/行業間諜➤suspected疑似間諜➤top高級間諜◇Britain's top spy英國的高級間諜➤British, Soviet, etc.英國、蘇聯等間諜... OF SPIES➤network間諜網VERB + SPY➤act as, be, work as當間諜;是密探◇He denied acting as an enemy spy.他否認自己是敵方間諜。➤recruit (sb as)招募(某人當)間諜SPY + VERB➤infiltrate間諜滲透⋯◇Soviet spies who had infiltrated the American government滲透進美國政府的蘇聯間諜SPY + NOUN➤film, movie, novel, story, thriller諜戰片;間諜小說;間諜故事;驚險間諜片▸➤camera, plane, satellite間諜相機/飛機/衞星▸➤network, ring間諜網◇Counter-intelligence officers uncovered a spy ring involving twenty agents.反情報官員發現了一個涉及 20 名特工的間諜網。➤agency (especially NAmE) 間諜機構◇the director of a top American spy agency美國頂級間諜機構負責人➤chief間諜頭子PREPOSITION➤spy for⋯的密探◇He was a spy for the government.他是政府密探。