spy something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v a) SPYto secretly find out information about something 暗中查明
b) spy out the land British EnglishBrEFIND OUT to secretly find out more information about a situation before deciding what to do 〔作决定前〕暗中摸清情况
spy out• By their cutbacks you shall spy them out.• Will right-to - life spies search out perpetrators?• At a London performance, a spy was sent out to research audience opinion.
spy out the land• Certainly he would have gone down there alone to spy out the land and check on his property.• She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine.
→ spy something ↔ out at spy2(2)