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espy

C2 verb

espy /əˈspaɪ/ nghĩa là phát hiện, nhìn thấy (bằng cách quan sát kỹ)

Các nghĩa

  1. phát hiện, nhìn thấy (bằng cách quan sát kỹ)

    To find out or observe (someone or something, especially if not easy to see) by spying or looking; to catch sight of; to see; to spot.

    transitive

    to espy land    to espy a man in a crowd

    Thou eſpiedſt the ſhallop's ſcarlet ſtreamer from far, and joyfully ſhoutedſt: Behold Lars cometh!

    Alas! what ails poor Geraldine? / Why stares she with unsettled eye? / Can she the bodiless dead espy?

  2. tình cờ thấy, bắt gặp

    To see (someone or something) without foreplanning or unexpectedly.

    transitive

    Come on my Lords the better foot before, / Straight vvill I bring you to the lothſome pit, / VVhere I eſpied the Panther faſt a ſleepe.

    And as one of them opened his ſacke, to giue his aſſe prouender in the Inne, he eſpied his money: for behold, it was in his ſackes mouth.

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