[N-COUNT 可数名词]（警队或私人）侦探 A detective is someone whose job is to discover what has happened in a crime or other situation and to find the people involved. Some detectives work in the police force and others work privately.
Detectives are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anything suspicious...
探员呼吁看到任何可疑情况的人进行举报。
She hired a private detective in an attempt to find her daughter.
她雇了一名私人侦探，试图找到自己的女儿。
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[N-TITLE； N-VOC 头衔名词；称呼名词]（用于警察头衔）(英国英语中常用于 constable，sergeant 等词前）侦探，（美国英语中单独使用)警探 In Britain 'detective' is used before words such as 'constable' or 'sergeant', and in the U.S. the word 'detective' is used on its own, to indicate that a police officer is a member of the department concerned with investigating crimes.
...Detective Inspector Ian Mosley.
伊恩·莫斯利探长
..Detective Nardosa of the New York City Police Department.
纽约市警察局的纳尔多萨警探
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[ADJ 形容词](小说或故事)侦探的，破案的 A detective novel or story is one in which a detective tries to solve a crime.
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[PHRASE 短语]调查；探究 If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
Despite careful detective work, many items have never been recovered.
尽管进行了悉心探查，许多物品还是一直没有找回。
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de·tect·iveAWL/dɪˈtektɪv; NAmEdɪˈtektɪv/noun(abbr.Det )1a person, especially a police officer, whose job is to examine crimes and catch criminals 侦探；警探◆Detective Inspector (Roger) Brown（罗杰）布朗探长◆detectives from the anti-terrorist squad反恐怖主义小组的侦探◆a detective story/novel侦探故事╱小说☞see also
store detective
2a person employed by sb to find out information about sb/sth 私人侦探☞see also
1a police officer whose job is to discover information about crimes and catch criminals →
store detective
2 (also private detective) someone who is paid to discover information about someone or something: She hired a detective to find out if her husband was having an affair.3detective work efforts to discover information, find out how something works, answer a difficult question etc: It took a lot of detective work to discover the cause of the problem.4detective story/novel etc a story etc about a crime, often a murder, and a detective who tries to find out who did it
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