| 词汇 | detective |
| 释义 | detectiveWord family noun detection detective detectivistdetectophonedetectoradjective detectable ≠ indetectible verb detect Police, Occupations de·tec·tive /dɪˈtektɪv/ ●●○ AWL noun [countableC] 1. SCPa police officer whose job is to discover information about crimes and catch criminals 侦探，警探 → store detective 2 (also private detective)BOFIND OUT someone who is paid to discover information about someone or something 私人侦探，私家侦探 She hired a detective to find out if her husband was having an affair. 她雇了一个私人侦探调查她丈夫是否有外遇。 3 detective work efforts to discover information, find out how something works, answer a difficult question etc 调查工作，研究工作 It took a lot of detective work to discover the cause of the problem. 经过大量的调查研究工作才发现问题的原因。 Examples from the Corpus detective work• Brilliant detective work with a little luck tossed in to catch the savvy killer.• So it would take more years of dogged detective work by a handful of investigators to connect the dots.• Much slow and painstaking geological detective work is needed to make correlations such as these, but the results can be very valuable.• Finding the missing parts has been a lucky blending of good fortune and good detective work.• Drawn to the subject via a footnote, McKillop did some literary detective work to uncover Deeks's story.• It takes a bit of detective work to trace the symptom back to the cause.• In fact tying a pollution to its source can be a tricky piece of detective work.• It takes some detective work to trace the symptom back to its cause.• Late one night, they ran into Ken Creese, one of two detectives working the case. 4. detective story/novel etc ALAMTa story etc about a crime, often a murder, and a detective who tries to find out who did it 侦探故事/小说等 Examples from the Corpus detective story/novel etc• It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story.• But they can also be used to play the game that is the simple blueprint detective story.• I wanted to stay and read the latest Encyclopedia Brown detective story.• Elizabeth did not like detective stories, because some one was usually hanged at the end of them.• Their approach is informal and Physics of Stellar Evolution and Cosmology reads like a scientific detective story.• This is the detective novel or the crime novel which makes its comments on life through humour rather than more directly.• Your detective of the detective story, of course, went about seeking information.• Key elements are missing, primarily the complexities, surprises and textures of the detective stories. Examples from the Corpus detective• Detectives made a TV appeal for anyone with any information about the crime to contact them.• The customers say you'd have to be a detective to make sense of it.• I'm a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?• Anyone with information is being asked to call Detective Mike Place.• Let me make sure I understand you, officer-mister detective.• a private detective• The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section.• Furthermore, the detectives are no longer in that basic symbol of police identity - the uniform.• Form is one of the hidden assets of the detective story.• Unless she and Mr Greenleaf decided to stay to see what the detective was going to do with him.• He was a very intelligent and perceptive young detective. |
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