Word · Frequency #25248
voyeur
窥淫癖者；偷窥狂
A person who gets sexual pleasure from watching others doing intimate or sexual things.
- 1.
A person who derives sexual pleasure from observing other people engaging in some intimate or sexual activity; one who engages in voyeurism.
从观察他人亲密或性行为中获得性快感的人；窥淫癖者。
- 2.
a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others
喜欢观看他人性行为或性器官的人
- 3.
An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects.
对耸人听闻或卑劣题材过度关注的人。
猎奇者；窥探者；从观察他人亲密或性行为中获得性快感的人；窥淫癖者。；喜欢观看他人性行为或性器官的人；对耸人听闻或卑劣题材过度关注的人。；偷看下流场面的人
In use
The police arrested the voyeur who had been filming people through their bedroom window.
She felt uncomfortable when she realized her neighbor was a voyeur.
Some people are voyeurs by nature, always watching the private moments of others.
be a voyeur
带有负面批评含义。
He is a voyeur.
他是个偷窥者。
voyeur of sth
后接被偷看的内容。
He is a voyeur of others' private moments.
他是他人私密时刻的偷窥者。
Common mistakes
He voyeurs the neighbors every night.He is a voyeur who watches the neighbors every night.
Connections
Collocations
- a mere voyeur
- 仅仅是个看客；纯粹的旁观者
- The gossip columnist is a mere voyeur, not a real journalist.那个八卦专栏作家不过是个看客，不是真正的记者。
- a sexual voyeur
- 窥淫癖者；偷窥狂
- The police identified the man as a sexual voyeur who filmed women through their windows.警方确认该男子是一名窥淫癖者，他透过窗户偷拍女性。
- a nation of voyeurs
- 人人皆看客的民族；全民窥探
- These reality shows have turned the whole country into a nation of voyeurs.这些真人秀已然让整个国家变成了一个人人皆看客的国度。
- an armchair voyeur
- 沙发看客；袖手旁观的偷窥者
- He's an armchair voyeur, happy to watch other people's misfortunes on TV but never helping.他是个沙发看客，只愿意在电视上旁观别人的不幸，却从不帮忙。
- play the voyeur
- 充当偷窥者；扮作看客
- The photographer was accused of playing the voyeur instead of helping the injured man.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记 voyeur：字母 V 像望远镜，躲在暗处观察他人私密——偷窥者。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：clinical psychology、media criticism、literary analysis voyeur 一词多用于正式或书面语境，如心理学讨论、新闻报道和文学评论中，带有一定的专业或修辞色彩；日常口语中较少使用，更口语化的说法有 peeping Tom 等。
Pronunciation & Spelling
发音说明：voyeur 的重读尾音为 /jʊr/，与 your、cure、pure、sure、tour、lure 的元音和后面的辅音相同，构成韵脚。注意：amateur、connoisseur、poseur 等以 -eur 结尾的词通常读作 /ər/ 或 /ɜːr/，并不与 /jʊr/ 押韵。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.