Pry

(verb.) be nosey; 'Don't pry into my personal matters!'.

(verb.) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; 'The burglar jimmied the lock': 'Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail'.

(verb.) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; 'They pried the information out of him'.

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• I don't want to pry, my dear. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Now you're a-going to poll-pry and question according to custom--I know what you're a-going to be up to. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Good God, thought he, and is it grief like this I dared to pry into? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I do not want to pry into other men's concerns. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• We could pry a board loose and see out of the south window down into the courtyard. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• That prying scoundrel, Hartright, may come back without my knowing it, and may make use of her to-morrow---- Not he, Percival! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Prying, and peeping, and listening are the natural occupations of people situated as we are. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• An unutterable suspicion that his mind is prying into mine overcomes me at these times, and it overcame me now. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am sick of all this poking and prying. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• By means of a lever, a 600-pound bowlder can be easily pried out of the ground. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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