Pry
[praɪ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) be nosey; 'Don't pry into my personal matters!'.
(verb.) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; 'The burglar jimmied the lock': 'Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail'.
(verb.) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; 'They pried the information out of him'.
弗里达編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A lever; also, leverage.
(v. t.) To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.
(v. i.) To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.
(n.) Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
伊莱恩整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Peer, pry, search, look closely or narrowly.
尤因整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Peer, peep, scrutinize, inquire
ANT:Connive, overlook, disregard, pretermit
手打:列侬
解釋/意思:
v.i. to peer or peep into that which is closed: to inspect closely: to try to discover with curiosity:—pa.t. and pa.p. pried.—n. (rare) a peeping glance: one who pries—cf. Paul Pry in John Poole's (1792-1879) comedy so called first produced in 1825.—ns. Prī′er Pry′er.—p.adj. Pry′ing looking closely into: inquisitive: curious.—adv. Pry′ingly.
校對:尼古拉斯
例句/造句/用法:
- I don't want to pry, my dear. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Now you're a-going to poll-pry and question according to custom--I know what you're a-going to be up to. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Good God, thought he, and is it grief like this I dared to pry into? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I do not want to pry into other men's concerns. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- We could pry a board loose and see out of the south window down into the courtyard. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- That prying scoundrel, Hartright, may come back without my knowing it, and may make use of her to-morrow---- Not he, Percival! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Prying, and peeping, and listening are the natural occupations of people situated as we are. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- An unutterable suspicion that his mind is prying into mine overcomes me at these times, and it overcame me now. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I am sick of all this poking and prying. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- By means of a lever, a 600-pound bowlder can be easily pried out of the ground. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
整理:露丝