pry
美音:[praı
]
英音:[praı
]
v.探查
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pry为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
副词:pryingly 名词复数:pries 动词过去式:pried 过去分词:pried 现在分词:prying 第三人称单数:pries
近义词, 同义词
make inquiry inquire ask seek search look for look about for look out for scan reconnoiter explore sound rummage ransack pry peer look round look over go over look through go through spy ask about inquire about
相关词
pry
/praɪ; praɪ/
v (pt, pp pried / praId; praId/) [I, Ipr] ~ (into sth) inquire too curiously or rudely about other people's private affairs 打听, 刺探（他人的私事）
*safe from prying eyes 闲人无从偷窥
* I don't want them prying into my affairs. 我不愿意他们打听我的私事.
/praɪ; praɪ/
v (pt, pp pried / praId; praId/) [Tn.pr, Tn.p, Cn.a] (esp US) = prise
*pry the lid off a tin 把罐头的盖子撬掉
* pry the tin open 把罐头撬开
* (fig 比喻) pry information out of sb 从某人嘴里弄到消息.
v (pt, pp pried / praId; praId/) [I, Ipr] ~ (into sth) inquire too curiously or rudely about other people's private affairs 打听, 刺探（他人的私事）
*safe from prying eyes 闲人无从偷窥
* I don't want them prying into my affairs. 我不愿意他们打听我的私事.
/praɪ; praɪ/
v (pt, pp pried / praId; praId/) [Tn.pr, Tn.p, Cn.a] (esp US) = prise
*pry the lid off a tin 把罐头的盖子撬掉
* pry the tin open 把罐头撬开
* (fig 比喻) pry information out of sb 从某人嘴里弄到消息.
pry
v past tense and past participlepriedpresent participlepryingthird person singularpries
[Sense: 1,3; Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Origin unknown]
[Sense: 2,4; Date: 1800-1900; Origin: prize 'to force up' (17-21 centuries), from prize 'lever' (14-20 centuries), from Old French prise 'act of seizing']
[I]
to try to find out details about someone else's private life in an impolite way
I don't want to pry , but I need to ask you one or two questions.
pry into
reporters prying into the affairs of celebrities
[T always + adverb/preposition]especially AmE to force something open, or force it away from something else
British Equivalent: prizepry sth open/away/off etc
We finally managed to pry the door open with a screwdriver.
away from prying eyes
in private, where people cannot see what you are doing
pry out of / [pry sth out of sb/sth] phr v
to get money or information from someone with a lot of difficulty
If you want to know his name, you have to pry it out of her.
[Sense: 1,3; Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Origin unknown]
[Sense: 2,4; Date: 1800-1900; Origin: prize 'to force up' (17-21 centuries), from prize 'lever' (14-20 centuries), from Old French prise 'act of seizing']
[I]
to try to find out details about someone else's private life in an impolite way
I don't want to pry , but I need to ask you one or two questions.
pry into
reporters prying into the affairs of celebrities
[T always + adverb/preposition]especially AmE to force something open, or force it away from something else
British Equivalent: prizepry sth open/away/off etc
We finally managed to pry the door open with a screwdriver.
away from prying eyes
in private, where people cannot see what you are doing
pry out of / [pry sth out of sb/sth] phr v
to get money or information from someone with a lot of difficulty
If you want to know his name, you have to pry it out of her.
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