1832, "to go around in a prying manner," American English, probably from Dutch snoepen "to pry," also "eat in secret, eat sweets, sneak," probably related to snappen "to bite, snatch" (see snap (v.)). Specific meaning "to pry into other people's business" is attested from 1921. Related: Snooped; snooping.
snoop (n.)
1891, "act of snooping," from snoop (v.). Meaning "one who snoops" is from 1929; meaning "detective" is from 1942. snooper "one who pries or peeps" is from 1889.
雙語例句
1. Governments have been known to snoop on innocent citizens.
有些政府窺探無辜公民的生活——這一事實(shí)已經(jīng)眾所周知。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Don't snoop into my affairs!
別刺探我的事情!
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. The second house that Grossman had a snoop around contained "strong simple furniture".
格羅斯曼打探過的第二座房子有著“結(jié)實(shí)而簡單的家具”.
來自柯林斯例句
4. I've just had a snoop round.
我剛才偵察了一番.
來自辭典例句
5. Thou shalt not snoop around in other people's files.