At night, he would creep out of the house like a spook.

夜间，他常常像幽灵一般地从家里偷偷地出来。

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I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe.

我不是缠磨着埃德加·爱伦·坡的那种幽灵。

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No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

不，我不是埃德加•爱伦•坡小说里神出鬼没的幽灵；我也不是你们在好莱坞电影里见到的鬼影。

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As a former student rebel, he spent part of the 1970s exiled in Cuba and the rest living clandestinely in Brazil (thanks to a facelift and a spook's discretion) until a political amnesty was declared in 1979.

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But as we begin to worry about the snooping state, perhaps we need to consider the idea of broader "right to be forgotten" legislation directed against intelligence services like GCHQ or NSA, that would protect our private data in a digitally networked age where everyone, especially the government, is becoming a spook.

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Mr. Lee is a retired spook, one of the guys in white hats whose unsung efforts helped the West win the Cold War.

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