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

• Even top secret spooks get paid.
  就是最高级的间谍也得领工资。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The film was dreadful& all spooks and vampires.
  这部影片很可怕&全是幽灵和吸血鬼。
• 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。
• 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。