| 单词 | double agent |
| 释义 | double agent (once / 31858 pages) n A spy who is pretending to work for one country while really working for that country's enemy is called a double agent. If you were hired in North Korea to spy on the United States, but you were secretly supplying confidential information about North Korea to the US government, you could call yourself a double agent. Some double agents work for organizations like the CIA, the US Central Intelligence Agency, and their field of expertise is known as "counterintelligence." In some cases, a spy becomes a double agent after their loyalty is turned against their home country. WORD FAMILYdouble agent: double agents USAGE EXAMPLESFormer British spy George Blake was sentenced to 42 years in 1961 after being exposed as a Soviet double agent. BBC(Nov 08, 2016) It was sort of like being a double agent. The Guardian(Oct 13, 2016) His late son, the story suggests, could have been a “Muslim martyr” working as a double agent. New York Times(Aug 24, 2016) n a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries Hyper spy, undercover agent (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors |
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