Hunting almost entirely by sound, owls eavesdrop on the scurrying in the undergrowth.

猫头鹰几乎全靠声音捕猎，它们留心倾听灌木丛下的静。

Each party speaks consecutively, with the firm's computers eavesdropping and translating his words in a matter of seconds.

每一方交替说话，该公司的电脑接收通话内容并在几秒钟内翻译。

If you eavesdrop on something, you secretly listen to someone's conversation.

如果你偷听某事，你就是在偷偷地听别人的谈话。

As they filed out of the classroom, Harry saw Professor Umbndge approach the teachers desk; he nudged Ron, who nudged Hermione in turn, and the three of them deliberately fell back to eavesdrop.

同学们鱼贯走出教室。哈利看见乌姆里奇教授朝讲台走去。他了，又了赫敏，三个人故意落在后面偷听。

Opening doors on the way up a grand staircase, your reporter eavesdropped on tutorials on ancient Greece, Romantic poets and economic theory.

走入敞开的大门，扶着一个壮观的楼梯而上，本报的记者悄悄旁听了一会古代希腊、马诗、经济理论的课程。

Some believe that interspecies communication would help foster respect and empathy for nature, others believe that it is profoundly disrespectful and unethical to eavesdrop and engage in this way.

有人认为跨物种交流可以促进对大自然的尊重和同理心，有人认为这样的窃听、接触是非常不尊重、不道德的。

Waterproof microphones allow the crew to eavesdrop on the dolphins, and so follow them.

防水麦克风让摄制组得以窃听它们发出的声音，并对进行追踪。

I could have sworn several people behind us were walking close enough to eavesdrop.

我可以肯定，我们后面有好几个人跟得非常近，可以偷听到我们说的话。

Now, before we move on to how Oberon feels about this situation, I wanted to talk a little bit about the difference between to overhear something and to eavesdrop on somebody or someone's conversation.

现在，在我们探讨奥伯龙对此情境的感受之前，我想先简单谈谈“无意中听到某事” 与“偷听某人或某人的对话” 之间的区别。 你知道，有时你可能会无意中听到别人的谈话。

Yes, he suggested that we can't know how far a company might be co-operating with a government to eavesdrop on people.

是的，他表示我们无法知道一家公司在多大程度上可能与政府合作来对民众进行窃听。

They're used in all kinds of ways, from hungry eavesdropping microorganisms to brief back-and-forth conversations between creatures you would never think would be up for a chat.

它的用途非常广泛，从饥饿的窃听微生物，到你认为绝对不会相互沟通的生物之间，简单往复的交流。

I have been so concerned about Julie lately that I sort of eavesdropped on her the other day while she was having a phone conversation with Zach.

我最近非常担心Julie，所以有一天我偷听了她和Zach在电话中的交谈。

In reality, a medical doctor or nutritionist would have the appropriate authority to promise the supplement's ability to help you eavesdrop through walls.

实际上，医生或营养学家有适当的权力承诺补充剂有能力帮助你偷听墙壁。

Over many generations, eavesdropping plants have evolved to interpret each different combination of compounds as the signature of a specific imminent threat.

经过很多代的演变，植物们已经进化到能够根据不同的化合物分辨出特定危险的信号。

When it was first used in the 1600s, eavesdrop was the water that fell, or dropped, from the eaves of a house.

当17世纪" eavesdrop" 第一次被使用时，" eavesdrop（檐水）" 是指从屋檐下流下或者滴下来的水。

Phrasebooks offer the chance to eavesdrop on quieter colonial cruelties in the drawing rooms of empire.

常用语书籍则让我们可以有机会窥见帝国的客厅里更平静的殖民暴行。

A text message or e-mail can be just as romantic, but be wary of who else may be eavesdropping.

一条短信或一封电子邮件也同样浪漫，但是要警惕不要被其他人看到了。

Yes, I chose to be entombed in a wall rather than admit to Cam that I was eavesdropping.

没错，我宁愿被葬入墙中，也不愿意跟小卡承认我偷听他。

But they also have another surveillance system: they eavesdrop on nearby birds.

它们会窃听附近的鸟类。

I'm sorry. I, uh, didn't mean to eavesdrop, but you really shouldn't take this out on Adam.

抱歉。我...没打算偷听，但你真的不应该怪亚当。