spooks

英 [spuːks] 美 [spuːks]

n.  鬼; 间谍; 特工
v.  吓; 惊吓; 受惊
spook的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

  1. 鬼魂;幽灵
    A spook is a ghost.
    1. N-COUNT 间谍
      A spook is a spy.
      1. ...as a US intelligence spook said yesterday.
        据昨天一位美国情报员所说…
    2. VERB 使受到惊吓;使神经紧张
      If people are spooked, something has scared them or made them nervous.
      1. But was it the wind that spooked her?...
        但会是风吓到她了吗？
      2. Investors were spooked by slowing economies.
        经济增长速度的放慢让投资者神经紧张。
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    1. The spooks call it "open source intelligence" and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential.
      随着互联网的发展，该行业的影响也日渐壮大。
    2. The companies will not be able to blame the backlash entirely on the spooks.
      那时企业将不能再把民众的反对完全归咎于情报人员了。
    3. But there is another area where the activities of American cyber spooks have created unexpected fallout: in financial exchanges and market data groups.
      然而美国网络间谍的活动在另一个领域产生了意想不到的冲击波：金融交易所和市场数据集团。
    4. If the war began dramatically, with planes crashing into buildings and the Taliban fleeing Afghanistan, it is now mostly underground& waged by terrorists, spooks, paramilitaries and G-men.
      如果说战争开始时颇具戏剧性，如飞机撞入高楼、塔利班逃离阿富汗，那么现在战争主要在地下进行――参与作战的是恐怖主义分子、间谍、准军事部队成员以及联邦调查局人员。
    5. Both also turned to private firms, such as Blackwater, that joined the chase for lucrative contracts by hiring former spooks and special-forces types.
      双方都会求助于私人公司，比如黑水，雇佣前间谍或特种部队之类的人手来竞争利润丰厚的合同。
    6. Even top secret spooks get paid.
      就是最高级的间谍也得领工资。
    7. What spooks me is the likely austerity pursued even in a moderated form over longer periods.
      我担心的是，紧缩措施可能以温和方式延续更长时间。
    8. The film was dreadful& all spooks and vampires.
      这部影片很可怕&全是幽灵和吸血鬼。
    9. I believe there're spooks around here.
      我相信有幽灵在附近。
    10. And that leaves them, in essence, playing a race-against-time game: no sooner do cyber spooks manage to counter one hacking threat, than another pops up.
      他们于是不得不玩起和时间赛跑的游戏：每当网络侦探刚刚平息一起黑客威胁，很快就会出现另一起威胁。
    11. Westerners fret that the networks the firm is building are used by Chinese spooks to eavesdrop during peacetime and could be shut down suddenly during wartime.
      西方人担忧华为正在建设的网络会被中国情报人员所利用在和平年代用来窃听，并可能在战时突然被封锁关闭。
    12. That he was found in a relatively large city that is home to a Pakistani military base raises troubling questions about what the country's soldiers and spooks actually knew about his location.
      他在一个比较大的城市被发现（并且这个城市是巴基斯坦一个军事基地的大本营），在美国士兵和间谍们是如何确切知道他的位置这一问题上引起了麻烦。
    13. Some say he's been at sea too long, that he spooks easily.
      有的说他在海上太久了，就像个幽灵一样灵活。
    14. China in particular spooks America-and may do so even more over the next few weeks of Olympic medal-gathering.
      特别地，中国让美国人大跌眼镜–而且会在接下来几周中在对奥运金牌的追逐中更加如此。
    15. Coleman the protagonist is charged by his colleagues as a racist in a "spooks'" incident. But the fact is that, he is a black with light skin color.
      主人公科尔曼因为一次幽灵事件被学院同事诬蔑为种族歧视者，而事实上，科尔曼本身是一名浅肤色的黑人。
    16. He hides his secret from his wife and children, making great achievement as a Jewish professor. But the "spooks" incident leads to his estrangement from his friends and the society.
      他隐瞒妻子和孩子以犹太教授的身份取得了巨大的成就却因为这次幽灵事件而疏离了社会和朋友。
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