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

• 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。
• I pried the top off a can of chilli
  我揭开一罐辣椒的盖子。
• 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。
• 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。
• Uncle Harold had pried, but Thomas had been vague and merely said that he was doing badly.
  哈罗德叔叔已经打听过了，但是托马斯含糊其辞，只说他干得不好。
• He found that some one pried the cabinets in his bedroom.
  他发现卧室里的橱柜被人撬开了。
• The prisoner pried up the door and escaped.
  犯人撬开门逃走了。
• Though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundation though their melancholy was terrible.
  虽然风用它僵硬的手指，直往根基，撬捣，虽然它们的忧郁，着实可怕。
• As long as he was rich, none pried into his conduct.
  只要他有钱，就没有人会追究他的行为。
• Eventually they pried the information out of him.
  他们最终从他的门中挖出了情报。