espionage是什么意思,espionage怎么用
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📰 外刊例句
Espionage and business have long been entangled . 间谍活动与商务向来纠缠不清。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[noun] the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information
[名词] 从事间谍活动或使用间谍的实际行动,通常由政府实施以获取政治和军事信息
💡 深入解读
Espionage 不仅是一个与 spy 含义相近的单词,从词源上看,两者都可能源自古高地德语spehon(刺探情报)。其中 espionage 于1793年经古法语espionnage(间谍活动)进入英语后,也是用来表示“间谍行为、谍报活动、刺探活动”,主要指有组织地从事间谍活动或使用间谍的实际行动,以秘密获取或收集有关另一个国家的重要敏感的政治或军事信息,或者有关另一家公司的商业、行业或产业秘密,
比如:
The cunning liar may call it research; I call it industrial espionage.那个狡猾的骗子可以称它为研究,可我称它为产业情报刺探。
Some of the commercial activities were a cover for espionage. We must remain sober -minded at all times.有些商业活动是为间谍活动提供掩护。我们必须时刻保持清醒的头脑。
而对于间谍活动中规模较大的,则可以用小站(微信公众号:田间小站)在好书推荐 | 精通英语习语100主题中提到过的 fifth column (第五纵队)表示。
📚 名著用例
She put the door gently to, slipped off her snowy shoes, untied her hat, and was proceeding, unconscious of my espionage , to lay aside her mantle, when I suddenly rose and revealed myself. 她也轻轻地关上门,脱下她那双沾了雪的鞋子,解开她的帽子,并不晓得我在瞅着她,正要脱下她的斗篷,我忽然站起来,出现了。
— 出自《英国女作家艾米莉·勃朗特(Emily Brontë)的长篇小说《呼啸山庄》( Wuthering Heights )。》
🔍 同近义词
- surveillance: close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal
- intelligence: the collection of information of military or political value
- infiltration: the action of entering or gaining access to an organization or place surreptitiously, especially in order to acquire secret information or cause damage

