| 单词 | telephone tap |
| 释义 | > as lemmastelephone tap telephone tap n. a device or connection enabling (usually secret) access to a telephone line, esp. in order to monitor conversations; an act or instance of telephone tapping; a recording made of a conversation monitored via telephone tapping. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > listening > eavesdropping > on telephone telephone tap1903 telephone tapping1903 tap1950 1903 Amer. Telephone Jrnl. 7 Nov. 292/1 When one transmitter is in action, it..causes a variable potential at all of the telephone taps. 1940 Lock Haven (Pa.) Express 31 Jan. 5/7 Detectives had a private room.., with a telephone tap leading from the one house to the other. 1978 S. Brill Teamsters ii. 62 Telephone taps were played on tape recorders in court. 2007 Eye Spy No. 48. 59/1 But what if audio intelligence is beyond the reach of an ordinary telephone tap? < as lemmas |
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