單詞
surveillance
英 [s?'ve?l(?)ns; -'ve??ns]
美[s?'vel?ns]
基本信息
- n. 監(jiān)督；監(jiān)視
TEM4CET6+GRE中低頻詞擴展詞匯
中文詞源
surveillance 監(jiān)視
來自法語 surveiller,監(jiān)督，看管，來自 sur-,在上，veiller,看，看護，來自拉丁語 vigilare,看， 看護，詞源同 vigil,wake.拼寫比較 rail,regulate.后引申詞義監(jiān)視。
英文詞源
- surveillance
- surveillance: see vigil
- surveillance (n.)
- 1802, from French surveillance "oversight, supervision, a watch," noun of action from surveiller "oversee, watch" (17c.), from sur- "over" (see sur- (1)) + veiller "to watch," from Latin vigilare, from vigil "watchful" (see vigil). Seemingly a word that came to English from the Terror in France ("surveillance committees" were formed in every French municipality in March 1793 by order of the Convention to monitor the actions and movements of suspect persons, outsiders, and dissidents).
雙語例句
- 1. Police keep track of the kidnapper using electronic surveillance equipment.
- 警方利用電子監(jiān)視設(shè)備跟蹤綁架者。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He was arrested after being kept under constant surveillance.
- 在被連續(xù)監(jiān)視了一段時間后，他被逮捕了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Police swooped on the home after a two-week surveillance operation.
- 在兩周的監(jiān)視行動之后，警方突擊搜查了那棟房子。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Leaving aside the question of privacy, constant surveillance can be remarkably convenient.
- 如果不去管隱私問題的話，實施不間斷監(jiān)視其實是非常便利的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The police are keeping the suspects under constant surveillance .
- 警方正對嫌疑人實施不間斷監(jiān)視。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
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