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

• Eventually they pried the information out of him.
  他们最终从他的门中挖出了情报。
• 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。
• A gust of wind pried loose a section of sheet-metal roofing
  一阵狂风把铺在屋顶上的一块金属片掀起来了。
• Where is the Tang Dynasty bodhisattva that he pried from its base?
  那座被他从底座撬走的唐代菩萨现在哪去了？
• 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。
• A team from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research discovered the body when they pried open her lead coffin during a rescue excavation on the construction site of a new conference center in Rennes in northwestern France.
  在法国西北城市雷恩的新会议中心建筑工地上，法国国家考古人员研究所的一组人员在抢救性挖掘时发现了这具遗体，并撬开了这座铅质棺椁。
• 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。
• In fact, I understand the bite-reflex is so strong the victim's jaws have to be pried open with a crowbar.
  实际上，这种条件反射的咬合是如此之强，以至于受害者的牙关必须得用撬棍才撬得开。
• 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。
• 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。