| 释义 |
ˈspying, vbl. n.
[f. spy v.]
a. The action of the verb, in various senses.
1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 338 Sir Jon de Waleis taken was in a pleyn, Þorgh spiyng of Norreis. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxviii. (Bodl. MS.), Liȝt..destroieth fals waitinges and spyinges. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 9138 But thei be armed in al maners..For auenture of ony spiyng. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xiv. xiii. 473 Mount Fasga is the hyll of spienge, of syghte, and of byholdynge. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. liii. 75 None coulde yssue out without spyeng. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 148 The spying of this fault now is not the curiositie of English eyes. 1611Cotgr., Speculation,..a viewing, watching, or spying out from a high place. 1883Longm. Mag. Nov. 72 The Hill of Badeney..on ordinary days gave us our first vantage-ground for spying. 1907Athenæum 6 July 6/2 His suspicions and spyings and petty meddlings certainly had required extraordinary patience.
b. attrib., as spying-hole, spying-mission, spying-place, spying-point.
1791Bentham Panopt. i. Postscr. 97 A thin partition..with blinded spying-holes running in the line level with the Inspector's eye. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. II. 448 Confident..that there was no truth in the spying mission attributed to Conseil. 1894S. Weyman Man in Black 79 The closet was a spying-place, and these were Judas-holes. 1922Joyce Ulysses 254 What is it?..—Find out, Miss Douce retorted, leaving her spyingpoint. |