pried

英 [praɪd]

美 [praɪd]

v.  探听，打听，探查(隐私)
pry的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 窥探；窥视；偷看；刺探
  If someonepries, they try to find out about someone else's private affairs, or look at their personal possessions.
  1. We do not want people prying into our affairs...
     我们不希望别人窥探我们的私事。
  2. Imelda might think she was prying...
     艾美达可能认为她在刺探别人的隐私。
  3. She thought she was safe from prying eyes and could do as she wished.
     她觉得自己不会被偷窥，可以随心所欲。
• VERB 撬动；撬开；撬起
  If youprysomething open orpryit away from a surface, you force it open or away from a surface.
  1. They pried open a sticky can of blue paint...
     他们撬开了一个黏糊糊的蓝色油漆桶。
  2. I pried the top off a can of chilli...
     我揭开一罐辣椒的盖子。
  3. Prying off the plastic lid, she took out a small scoop.
     她揭开塑料盖，拿出了一个小勺。
• VERB （从…口中）费力地得到（消息等）
  If youprysomething such as informationout ofsomeone, you persuade them to tell you although they may be very unwilling to.
  1. ...their attempts to pry the names from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
     他们试图从美国酒精、烟草和武器管理局那里打探到那些名字

in BRIT, usually use 英国英语通常用 prize

双语例句

• They reassured him countless times; but he could not believe them, and pried cunningly about the lazarette to see with his own eyes.
  他们对他保证了无数次，但是他仍然不相信，仍然会狡猾地溜到贮藏室附近亲自窥探。
• If the cage is liftedover the limit switch cam or lose the power suddenly, the cage can be pried up and down by hand.
  当吊笼越过限位开关触发板或突然失电时，可对吊笼进行手工撬动升降。
• Determined, the little boy shoved, pushed, and pried, but every time he thought he had made some progres the rock tipped and then fell back into the sandbox.
  小男孩下定决心要把石头移走，他又推又撬，但每次自以为取得一些成果时，那石头又滚了下来掉回沙箱中。
• As the cover was pried opened, an explosion occurred.
  在盖板被撬起后，爆炸发生了。
• Our hips are measured to determine strength, and our lips pried apart so the men can judge our health by our teeth.
  他们测量我们的臀部以确定力量，撬开我们的嘴唇，好让那些男人根据我们的牙齿判断我们的健康状况。
• I pried it loose with a crowbar and hoisted it into the wheelbarrow.
  我用撬棍把它撬松，然后搬到了手推车里。
• The car trunk had been pried open and all her equipment was gone.
  那辆小车的行李箱被撬开了，她所有的设备都没了。
• To protect the information from pried, modified, copied, and guarantee the security of data in Internet, VPN uses the Authentication, accessing control, data secreting, and data integrity etc.
  它采用身份认证、存取控制、数据机密性、数据完整性等措施，来保证信息在传输中不被偷看、篡改、复制，以保障信息在Internet上传输的安全性。
• Seized with the joyful curiosity of an overgrown boy, he pried off the board with the corner of his fire-shovel.
  他心里喜洋洋的滋生一股大孩子的好奇心，用一把煤铲的角把木板撬起。
• Hey, if you pried it open.
  哎你要是捅了它。