peep
peep 英 [pi:p] 美 [pip]
n. 偷看；隐约看见，瞥见 vi. 窥视；慢慢露出，出现；吱吱叫 vt. 使出现
进行时:peeping 过去式:peeped 过去分词:peeped 第三人称单数:peeps 名词复数:peeps
- To peep is to take a quick, secret glance at something. Kids might peep into the living room on Christmas morning to see if Santa came the night before.
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- n. 偷看；隐约看见，瞥见
- vi. 窥视；慢慢露出，出现；吱吱叫
- vt. 使出现
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1. It's rude to peep at other people's work.
偷看别人的工作是不礼貌的。
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2. She had done it like a little lady; never a peep from the baby monitor.
她的行为就像个小夫人；从不通过婴儿监护器窥视。
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3. Months went by without a peep from the FBI surveillance teams that had been tracking her in undercover vehicles and helicopters.
他曾经被秘密地由汽车和直升机跟踪，而联邦调查局跟踪小组有几个月没有窥视她了。
- peep (n.1) "a furtive look, as if through a crevice, a glimpse," 1520s, originally and especially "the first looking out of light from the eastern horizon" (the sense in peep of day); from peep (v.1). General meaning "a furtive glance" is attested by 1730.
- peep (n.2) "short chirp," early 15c., from peep (v.2); meaning "slightest sound or utterance" (usually in a negative context) is attested from 1903. Meaning "young chicken" is from 1680s. The marshmallow peeps confection are said to date from 1950s.
- peep (v.1) "glance" (especially through a small opening), mid-15c., perhaps alteration of Middle English piken (see peek (v.)). Peeping Tom "a curious prying fellow" [Grose] is from 1796 (see Godiva).
- peep (v.2) "make a short chirp," c. 1400, probably altered from pipen (mid-13c.), ultimately imitative (compare Latin pipare, French pepier, German piepen, Lithuanian pypti, Czech pipati, Greek pipos).
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