the Cambridge spies
noun /ðə ˌkeɪmbrɪdʒ ˈspaɪz/
/ðə ˌkeɪmbrɪdʒ ˈspaɪz/
[plural]- a group of British spies (= people employed to find out secret information) who gave British secrets to the Soviet Union. They were at Cambridge University together in the 1930s, and believed that Communism was the only way of fighting Fascism. People first knew about the group when two of them, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, went to live in the Soviet Union in 1951. A third man, Kim Philby, joined them in 1963, and in 1979 the fourth man was named as Anthony Blunt. John Cairncross was named as a fifth member of the group in 1991.
剑桥间谍：一群英国间谍，向英国提供了英国秘密。他们在1930年代一起在剑桥大学学习，并相信共产主义是对抗法西斯主义的唯一方法。当他们两个人盖伊·伯吉斯和唐纳德·麦克林于1951年居住在苏联时，人们首先知道了这个群体。第三个人，金·菲尔比于1963年加入了他们，1979年，第四个人被命名为安东尼·布朗特。约翰·凯恩克罗斯（John Cairncross）于1991年被任命为该小组的第五位成员。