detective

n.侦探; 警探; 私人侦探

复数：detectives

牛津词典

noun

侦探；警探a person, especially a police officer, whose job is to examine crimes and catch criminals

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

私人侦探a person employed by sb to find out information about sb/sth

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT （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。

N-TITLE; N-VOC （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

(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.

PHRASE 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。

双语例句

The detective has to discover the motive, the means and the opportunity and has to keep these three balls in the air. 那名侦探必须查明动机、手段和时机，而且对这三项的调查必须同步展开。

He buried himself in his detective story again. 他又沉浸在他的侦探故事里了。

The detective changed his holiday dates when his flight was brought forward and it now clashed with the trial. 由于航班提前，侦探更改了度假日期，但是这样一来就和审判冲突了。

When Paul made the crack about the 'famous girl detective', I began to suspect that he had it in for you. 当保罗挖苦你是“著名的女侦探”时，我开始怀疑他是不是故意刁难你。

Joan Smith's detective stories are a cut above the rest. 琼·史密斯的侦探小说比其他侦探小说都要出色。

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。

Detective Nardosa of the New York City Police Department. 纽约市警察局的纳尔多萨警探

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。

I don't have to be a detective to figure that out. 我不是侦探也想得出。

I'll level with you. I'm no great detective. I've no training or anything 实话告诉你吧，我根本不是什么大侦探。我没有受过任何训练。

She's the author of three detective novels under the moniker of Janet Neel. 她是3本署名为珍妮特·尼尔的侦探小说的作者。

Journalists informed police who planted an undercover detective to trap Smith. 记者通知了警方，后者于是为诱捕史密斯而安插了一名卧底侦探。

Furthermore, as Gervaise was quick to point out, Mr Scully was not a detective. 而且，正如热尔韦斯毫不犹豫地指出来的那样，斯库利先生并不是一名侦探。

I'm no great shakes as a detective 作为一名侦探我并不出色。

Detective Holt said: 'The kidnapper is a man we must catch and the sooner the better'. 霍尔特侦探说：“绑架者是一名男子，我们必须抓住他，越快越好。”

The woman detective shifted her stance from one foot to another. 女侦探改变了站姿，把重心从一只脚移到另一只脚。

The detective was trying to winkle information out of her. 侦探试图从她那儿套取信息。

The detective gives a false colour to this whole business. 这个侦探彻底地歪曲了整个事件。

Sherlock Holmes is a famous detective in stories. 故事中的福尔摩斯是著名的侦探。

That murder was a mystery for a long time, but a clever detective cleared it up. 那次谋杀案长期以来一直是个谜，后来有个机灵的侦探揭开了真相。

Because I hired a detective, yeah, I thought you were having an affair. 因为我雇了个侦探，以为你有外遇了。

But you hired our detective. 但你雇了我的探。

I was interested in detective and mystery stories. 我对侦探和神秘故事感兴趣。

A railway detective arrested him. 我刚才侦察了一番。一个铁路侦探逮捕了他。

One was a detective, the other invented radar. 一个是侦探家，另一个发明了雷达。

I ran into a detective I know last night. 昨晚我碰到了个我认识的警察。

After a while he tired of reading detective stories. 过了一会儿，他对看侦探小说也感到厌倦了。

Was my lawyer not clear with you, detective taylor? 难道我的律师没和你说清楚吗，泰勒侦探？

How long were you detective harker's neighbor? 你和harker侦探做邻居多久了？

英英释义

noun

a police officer who investigates crimes

Synonym:investigatortecpolice detective

an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public