1. (警隊或私人)偵探 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.
e.g. Detectives are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anything suspicious... 探員呼吁看到任何可疑情況的人進(jìn)行舉報。 e.g. She hired a private detective in an attempt to find her daughter. 她雇了一名私人偵探,試圖找到自己的女兒。
2. (用于警察頭銜)(英國英語(yǔ)中常用于 constable,sergeant 等詞前)偵探,(美國英語(yǔ)中單獨使用)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.
e.g. ...Detective Inspector Ian Mosley. 伊恩·莫斯利探長(cháng) e.g. ..Detective Nardosa of the New York City Police Department. 紐約市警察局的納爾多薩警探
3. (小說(shuō)或故事)偵探的,破案的 A detective novel or story is one in which a detective tries to solve a crime.
4. 調查;探究 If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
e.g. Despite careful detective work, many items have never been recovered. 盡管進(jìn)行了悉心探查,許多物品還是一直沒(méi)有找回。
detective英英釋義
noun
1. a police officer who investigates crimes
Synonym: investigatortecpolice detective
2. an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public