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单词 pry
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pry

verb
/praɪ/
/praɪ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they pry
/praɪ/
/praɪ/
he / she / it pries
/praɪz/
/praɪz/
past simple pried
/praɪd/
/praɪd/
past participle pried
/praɪd/
/praɪd/
-ing form prying
/ˈpraɪɪŋ/
/ˈpraɪɪŋ/
  1. [intransitive] pry (into something) to try to find out information about other people’s private lives in a way that is annoying or rude探听,打听,探查(隐私)
    • I'm sick of you prying into my personal life!我讨厌你刺探我的私生活!
    • I'm sorry. I didn't mean to pry.对不起,我并不想刺探别人的私事。
    • She tried to keep the children away from the prying eyes of the world's media.她尽量使孩子们躲开世界上媒体猎奇的目光。
  2. (especially North American English)
    (also prise especially in British English, North American English prize)
    to use force to separate something from something else强行使分开;撬开
  3. Word Originsense 1 Middle English (in the sense ‘peer inquisitively’): of unknown origin.sense 2 early 19th cent.: from the verb prise, interpreted as pries, third person singular of the present tense.
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