Noun:
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(military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- She worked as an undercover agent for the police.
她为警察当密探。
- An agent provocateur reported that the enemy had started out.
有密探禀报，敌军已经出发。
- Aha, the agent thought, here's my man.
啊哈，特务想，可找到我要找的人了。
- We soon found out that he was a secret agent.
我们很快就查明他是个特务。
- That store was a front for foreign agent.
那家商店是为外国间谍打掩护的。
- Again some believed that he was a Tsarist agent.
还有人相信他是俄罗斯间谍。
