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pry

/pɹaɪ/ 动词 C2

中文: 撬动、撬开、费力套出

  1. To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize. (transitive)
  2. Usually followed by out (of): to draw out or get (information, etc.) with effort. (figuratively, transitive)

He/she/it pries · 过去式 pried · 过去分词 pried · -ing形式 prying

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While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: “Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?”
《Three Hundred Aesop's Fables》,第22页 · B2
Where your calling is more open to criticism is when you pry into the secrets of private individuals, when you rake up family matters which are better hidden, and when you incidentally waste the time of men who are more busy than yourself.
《The Return of Sherlock Holmes》,第113页 · C1
Dave confidently claimed he could easily pry the door open with a metal crowbar.
《Locked Out in My Pajamas》,第1页 · B2

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