prying的意思|prying的解释-里氏词典

prying ['praɪɪŋ]

a. 窥探

prying

[ noun ]

offensive inquisitiveness

<noun.cognition>

[ adj ]

offensively curious or inquisitive

<adj.all>

curious about the neighbor's doings

he flipped through my letters in his nosy way

prying eyes

the snoopy neighbor watched us all day

Prying \Pry"ing\, a.
Inspecting closely or impertinently.

Syn: Inquisitive; curious. See {Inquisitive}.

Pry \Pry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pried}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Prying}.]
To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or
lever; to prize. [Local, U. S. & Eng.]

Workers at Guran Concrete & Supply Co. found 450 sticks of dynamite after prying off the lid of a container in a warehouse, said fire Capt.
"A successful package could be a good lever for prying further concessions from other countries, especially West Germany," said Mr. Brusca.
It is seeking alternatives to spreading salt, which can pollute the environment and eat away at autos, and prying ice with snowplow blades, which takes lots of energy and chews up pavement.
Achievement of that target, set in the 1991 pact, has been hailed by the US as evidence that market share targets are an effective means of prying open Japanese markets.
While it was researching for "Weddings Extraordinaire," other businesses called the program's organizers to complain that a competitor was prying into their methods by pretending to be part of the program.
And the electric plugs that Ms. Lublin has difficulty with offer much greater protection, especially against the prying fingers of children, than American plugs.
What's more, the Sunday article left until the very end what some people consider the justification for prying into Mr. Hart's personal life.
It is the lever with which he is prying power away from them.
'We do not know any other way of prying it open.
The camera's insistent, prying realism has taken the oomph out of Ms. Robinson's dotty, romantic story.
On Thursday night, in a spacious Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died from cancer, not only free at last from the camera's prying lenses but with her own privacy intact. That this should be so is remarkable.

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