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A detective is a police officer or private investigator whose job is to investigate crimes or situations and find those involved. It can also be part of a police officer's title, like "detective inspector".

detective (名词) 指的是警察或私人调查员,其职责是调查犯罪或情境并找出相关人员;也可用作警察头衔的一部分,如"detective inspector"。

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[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。


    Oxford de·tect·ive AWL / dɪˈtektɪv ; NAmE dɪˈtektɪv / noun ( abbr.Det ) 1 a 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
    2 a person employed by sb to find out information about sb/sth 私人侦探 see also
    private detective
    detective detectives
    de·tect·ive / dɪˈtektɪv ; NAmE dɪˈtektɪv /
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    detectivede‧tec‧tive /dɪˈtektɪv/ ●●○ AWL noun [countable]
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    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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