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

• 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。
• As the cover was pried opened, an explosion occurred.
  在盖板被撬起后，爆炸发生了。
• 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。
• 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。
• They pried open my boxes, stole my stuff, put water in my kerosene lamp so the oil would explode when I tried to light it, keeping me from reading at night.
  他们撬开我的箱子，偷走我的东西，往我的煤油灯里倒水，在我点灯的时候，煤油就会爆炸，这样我就在夜里没法看书了。
• 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。
• 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。
• When he believed that the right moment had arrived, he took the knife, pried open the teeth, which offered less resistance than before, counted one after the other twelve drops, and watched;
  当他确信那时刻已经到了的时候，便拿起小刀去撬开牙齿，这一次牙齿没象上次那样咬得紧，他一滴一滴地数着，直数到十二滴，然后等着。
• I struggled out of bed, pried open my eyes, shaved and showered, and bolted down some breakfast.
  我挣扎着起了床，使劲睁开双眼，刮了脸又冲了澡，然后匆匆吞下一些早点。
• So Tom pried his mouth open and poured down the Pain-killer.
  因此汤姆撬开它的嘴，把止痛药灌下去。