pry

发音

英 [praɪ]word uk audio image

美 [praɪ] word us audio image

  • vi.
    窥探,打探
  • vt.
    撬开,撬动
    费力地得到
  • n.
    窥探
    撬杠
    爱打探的人

单词词源

pry 刺探,打听 pry 撬开,撬动

来自中古法语prien,偷窥,打探,可能来自piren的变体词,来自piren,偷窥,词源同peer. 来自prize 的回构词,来自古法语prise,抓住,来自(缩写自)拉丁语prehendere,抓住,词源 同apprise,comprehend.引申词义撬开,强力扒开。

双语例句

1. During a recent match he tried , unsuccessfully , to pry loose the concrete bleachers .
在最近的一次观看比赛中,他曾尝试着撬掉已经松动了的混凝土看台,但是失败了。
2. And its door that advertisers have been trying to pry through for the past 200 years at least .
也就是这扇门,广告商们已经至少撬了200年。
3. When the entire area is shattered , drive the jackhammer in at an angle and pry up to loosen the first few pieces of flooring .
当整个区域被砸碎时,汽锤斜着向里撬动,撬松头几块水泥。
4. The continued u.s. military presence in japan has been a growing concern for the japanese public , and last week it became a lever to pry prime minister yukio hatoyama from office .
美国继续在日本的军事存在已成为日本民众日益关注的问题,上周它成为一个把鸠山由纪夫首相撬下台的杠杆。
5. Nick , who had helped his parents remodel their home , organized volunteers to wire-brush soot from the stone fireplace , scrub 75 years of grime off the wood floors , and pry hundreds of staples from the pine walls .
尼克,为他的父母重造了他们的房子,组织了志愿者去丝刷烟灰,从石壁炉开始,用力擦洗75年来挂在木地板上的污垢,从松木墙上撬出数以百计的钉子。

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