英语单词 | detective |
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英美音标 | 英 [dɪ'tektɪv] 美 [dɪ'tektɪv] |
中文释义 | n.侦探 adj.侦探的 |
英语例句 | (1) The detective laid great stress on details. (2) The detective was trying to ascertain exactly who was at the party. (3) The detective thought the stick was relative to the murder case. (4) The detective tried to reason out how the thief had escaped. (5) The company hired a detective to investigate the accident. (6) The detective posed as a mourner at the victim's funeral. (7) She read detective stories as an escape. (8) The detective film is very interesting. |
中文例句 | (1) 侦探特别强调细节。 (2) 这个侦探试图查明都有谁参加了聚会。 (3) 侦探认为这根木棒和谋杀案有牵连。 (4) 这个侦探反复琢磨想弄明白那个窃贼是怎样逃跑的。 (5) 公司雇佣了一名侦探来调查这次事故。 (6) 那侦探佯装成吊唁者参加了受害人的葬礼。 (7) 她看侦探小说解闷。 (8) 这部侦探电影非常有趣。 |
vocabulary简明 | Whether it's a police detective who investigates crimes or a private detective hired by a husband to uncover his wife's affair, a detective is someone whose job is to find out hard-to-get information. |
vocabulary扩展 | Detective comes from the Latin root detectus meaning to uncover or expose. Detectives detect, or discern and uncover the truth, the way a dog might detect an odor and uncover a bone. Sherlock Holmes, perhaps the most famous detective in fiction, used disguises, deductive reasoning and forensics to solve crimes. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth," he famously said. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [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.
2 [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.
3 [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. [ADJ n] 4 [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.
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