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secret agent

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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ˌsecret ˈagent noun [countable]  PGPMsomeone whose job is to find out and report on the military and political secrets of other countries 特工人员,特务,间谍 SYN spy
Examples from the Corpus
secret agentFoley looked like anything in the world except a secret agent.It was not every night, she reflected, that she dined with a secret agent.Jack had specifically asked his secret agent to confine himself to a couple of current photographs and Polly's address.They say that the better the secret agent, the less one hears about him.The secret agent in his place, he wrote, the infiltrator safely ensconced.
ˌsecret ˈagent nounChineseSyllable
job the on someone report whose is to and out Corpus find


secret agent
ˌsecret ˈagent noun [countable]
someone whose job is to find out and report on the military and political secrets of other countries
   SYN  spy


secret agentBrE /ˌsiːkrət ˈeɪdʒənt/ 🔊NAmE /ˌsiːkrət ˈeɪdʒənt/ 🔊 (also agent) nouna person who is used by a government to find out secret information about other countries or governments 特工人员;特务;间谍 SYN spy