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

• 鬼魂;幽灵
  Aspookis a ghost.
• N-COUNT 间谍
  Aspookis a spy.
  1. ...as a US intelligence spook said yesterday.
     据昨天一位美国情报员所说…
• VERB 使受到惊吓;使神经紧张
  If peopleare 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。

双语例句

• I believe there're spooks around here.
  我相信有幽灵在附近。
• 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。
• 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。
• Even top secret spooks get paid.
  就是最高级的间谍也得领工资。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。