lurk /lɜːk $ lɜːrk/ ●○○ verb [intransitiveI] 1 HIDE/MAKE IT HARD TO FIND OR SEEto wait somewhere quietly and secretly, usually because you are going to do something wrong 潜伏,埋伏lurk in/behind/beneath/around etc She didn’t see the figure lurking behind the bushes. 她没有看到躲在树丛后的那个身影。
2 EXISTif something such as danger, a feeling etc lurks somewhere, it exists, but you may not see it or know about it 〔危险、情感等〕暗藏,潜藏 a dark formless danger, lurking in the shadows 一种潜藏在阴影里的无形危险
3 if you lurk in a chat room on the Internet, you read what other people are writing to each other, but you do not write any messages yourself 隐身〔指在网上聊天室里只看帖而不回复或不发帖〕lurk in I think it’s sort of creepy how people lurk in chat rooms. 我觉得人们在聊天室里隐身不语有点可怕。
—lurker noun [countableC]