| 单词 | detective |
| 释义 | detective (dɪtektɪv ) Word forms: detectives 1. countable noun B1+ 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. She hired a private detective in an attempt to find her daughter. Synonyms: investigator, cop [slang], copper [slang], dick [slang, mainly US] 2. title noun & vocative noun 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. ...Detective Nardosa of the New York City Police Department. 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ A detective novel or story is one in which a detective tries to solve a crime. 4. detective work phrase 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. Collocations: detective agency After struggling to find a suitable career, he found himself employed in a detective agency working on repossessions. Times, Sunday Times Nearly every quarter seems to have its own private detective agency. Times, Sunday Times Could the detective agency ever close its doors? Times, Sunday Times She found work with a detective agency. Times, Sunday Times He had been due to oversee a spin-off series of 13 one-hour episodes based on the detective agency characters. Times, Sunday Times It's an old formula, but this new detective drama series gives it a new twist. Times, Sunday Times The detective drama returns for its final season. Times, Sunday Times But in this modern-day version of the detective drama, he's ditched his iconic pipe and deerstalker hat for cutting-edge technology! The Sun The award-winning detective drama will return for a third run of four 60-minute episodes later this year. The Sun A new series of the detective drama crashes on to our screens with the screech of tyres and a car accident. The Sun As dutiful consumers of detective fiction, we can't help but respond to the plot-compiler's algorithms. The Times Literary Supplement After that, detective fiction was never quite the same again. Times, Sunday Times They are not crime or even detective fiction as ordinarily understood. Times,Sunday Times He was also a connoisseur of detective fiction, with a preference for the harder-boiled end of the genre. Times, Sunday Times They wrote detective fiction, not adventure stories or 'thrillers'. The Times Literary Supplement Feature-length pilot which spawned the hit 1970s detective series. The Sun A drama about giving birth provides more suspense than any detective series. The Sun Crime-scene tape surrounded her home in a scene resembling a late-night detective series. Times, Sunday Times You don't get it with period drama or homely detective series. Times, Sunday Times As a result they can be turned, without much ado or obvious anachronism, into that most 20th-century of forms, the detective series. Times, Sunday Times Run by forensic experts, highly experienced detectives and fraud investigators, it was deadly. Times, Sunday Times Local police were starved of resources and experienced detectives. The Sun Its annual report also says a shortage of experienced detectives has become a national crisis. The Sun This modernday take on the world's most famous detective was highly entertaining. The Sun Elementary, as a famous detective might have said. Times, Sunday Times Singles find love with someone reading a famous detective story. The Sun How about ... revive a famous detective? Times, Sunday Times They are volumes containing famous detective stories, and he thinks it would be a good idea to base their techniques on the different styles of their fictional counterparts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The prototype fictional detective and pioneering forensic scientist, like all the great sleuths, shows complete indifference to the rights and wrongs of the case. Times, Sunday Times The fictional detective however, has assisted the game's highest scoring player. Times, Sunday Times Never has there been a less observant, more irritating fictional detective. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She continues to defy the rule that the creators of fictional detectives run out of ideas before their tenth book. Times, Sunday Times I refer to great fictional detectives revived by top crime writers of today. Times, Sunday Times As a police detective you're coming into people's lives when they're at their most vulnerable and raw. Times, Sunday Times The former police detective, who weighs 100kg, says he works out every day and can lift up to 160kg. ST Or as a police detective suppressing her femininity in a macho world? Times, Sunday Times A police detective also saw that the ship was leaving and made the same assumption. Smithsonian Mag It emerged that one of the bikers was an off-duty undercover police detective. Times, Sunday Times She turned out to be an undercover detective. The Sun Instead, he was met by an undercover detective. canada.com He became an undercover detective in the 1970s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Around 1995, an undercover detective discovered that there were 1,100 people on the rolls. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The show featured four funky undercover detectives: undetectable as police, given their hipness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 侦探 Japanese: 刑事 |
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