đặc vụ

Thân thiện

Một đặc vụ đang quan sát mục tiêu từ xa bằng ống nhòm.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Secret agent: A person employed by a government or organization to secretly obtain information or perform covert activities, often for intelligence, subversion, or counter-intelligence purposes.
   • Intelligence officer: An operative working for an intelligence or secret service agency.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Đặc vụ đó đã xâm nhập thành công vào tổ chức khủng bố. (That secret agent successfully infiltrated the terrorist organization.)
  • Hắn bị tình nghi là một đặc vụ nước ngoài. (He is suspected of being a foreign intelligence officer.)
  • Các đặc vụ đang theo dõi nghi phạm. (The agents are surveilling the suspect.)

Advanced Usage

• The term can carry a negative connotation in certain historical or political contexts, implying an agent working for a repressive or reactionary organization.
  • Chế độ cũ đã sử dụng đặc vụ để đàn áp phe đối lập. (The old regime used secret agents to suppress the opposition.)

Variants and Related Words

• Điệp viên (n): Spy; often used interchangeably but can imply deeper undercover work.
• Nhân viên tình báo (n): Intelligence personnel; a more formal or general term.

Synonyms

• Agent: A person who acts on behalf of another, especially in secret.
• Operative: A worker, especially a secret agent.
• Spy: A person who secretly collects and reports information.

Related Idioms

• : To act like a secret agent; describing someone behaving very covertly or suspiciously.
  • Đứa trẻ thích hoạt động như một đặc vụ khi chơi trốn tìm. (The child likes to act like a secret agent when playing hide-and-seek.)

Học thuật

1. Intelligence service, secret service (of a reactionary organization set up for subversive purpose)
2. Secret agent