0 the discovering of secrets, especially political or military information of another country or the industrial information of a business -- （尤指获取他国政治、军事情报或商业情报的）间谍活动，间谍行为，刺探活动
military/industrial espionage 军事间谍活动／行业刺探行为
In this paper, the effectiveness of espionage law in deterring the misappropriation of ideas in the process of being developed is the main policy instrument.
Today this fear has no substance, in that military satellites are better platforms of espionage than the decks of civilian vessels passing through these waters.
There is an atmosphere of suspicion and espionage.
This article is a response to an account of a communist espionage circle which appeared in this journal in 2003.
Fear of espionage and collisions of interests were the driving forces behind this vigilance.
These were an efficient external espionage service4 and the internal activities of the state security organs.
It is quite impossible to run a counterespionage organisation of this kind without performing acts which are to all intents and purposes espionage.
Although ever y state makes espionage against itself a crime, ever y state also practices it toward other, even friendly states.
