| 词组 | spy |
| 释义 | noun | verb spy1 /spaɪ/ noun someone whose job is to find out secret information about another country, organization, or groupadjectives/nouns + spya British/Russian/American etc spy They suspected that he was an American spy.a foreign spy/enemy spy He gave information to foreign spies.a government spy The men thought I was a government spy.a former spy (=someone who used to be a spy) Police are investigating the death of a former Russian spy.verbswork as a spy She worked as a spy for the Americans.spy + nounsa spy story/novel/movie/thriller etc The film is based on a spy story by John Le Carré.a spy ring/network (=a group of spies) Burgess and Maclean were members of a Soviet spy ring. | He was well informed through his network of spies.a spy satellite/plane The information was obtained using a spy satellite.a spy chief also a spymaster She was Britain’s first woman spy chief.a spy agency (=a secret intelligence organization) The head of the Russian spy agency is visiting Japan.a spy scandal (=a shocking news story involving spies) He was arrested following the sex-for-secrets spy scandal.THESAURUS: spy agent/secret agent someone who works for a government or police department in order to get secret information about another country or organization: a secret agent working for MI5 | He is the FBI’s best undercover agent (=one who works secretly and pretends to be someone else). double agent someone who finds out an enemy country’s secrets for their own country but who also gives secrets to the enemy: She was a former CIA double agent who also worked for the KGB. mole someone who works for an organization while secretly giving information to its enemies: A mole in the government was leaking information to the press. informer someone who secretly tells the police about criminal activities, especially for money: Acting on information from an informer, the police raided the house. espionage the work that spies do: He is serving a 20-year prison sentence for espionage. noun | verb spy2 /spaɪ/ verb to secretly collect information about an enemy country or an organization you are competing againstprepositionsspy on sb/sth The man was charged with spying on British military bases.spy for sb/sth They confessed to spying for North Korea. | He spied for the British.THESAURUS: spywork that a spy does spying the action of secretly collecting information about a person, country, or organization: Several embassy officials had been arrested for spying. espionage spying. Espionage is more formal than spying: Zakharov was charged with espionage. | The company carried out a campaign of industrial espionage against its main rival. | Double agents are quite commonplace in the world of espionage. surveillance activity in which the police, army etc watch a person or place carefully because they may be connected with criminal activities: 24-hour surveillance of the building | The police have had him under surveillance for months (=have been watching him). covert operations secret military activities against an enemy: These planes are used by British Intelligence for covert operations. |
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