| 单词 | detective |
| 释义 | Word family noun detection detective adjective detectable ≠ indetectible verb detect Related topics: Police, Occupationsde·tec·tive /dɪˈtektɪv/ ●●○ AWL noun [countable] 1. SCPa police officer whose job is to discover information about crimes and catch criminals 侦探，警探 → store detective2 (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。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 Corpusdetective• 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.de·tec·tive nounChineseSyllable is a officer job to Corpus police whose |
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