detectives

英 [dɪˈtɛktɪvz]

美 [dɪˈtɛktɪvz]

n.  侦探; 警探; 私人侦探
detective的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （警队或私人）侦探
  Adetectiveis 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.
  1. 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。
  2. She hired a private detective in an attempt to find her daughter.
     她雇了一名私人侦探，试图找到自己的女儿。
• 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.
  1. ...Detective Inspector Ian Mosley.
     伊恩·莫斯利探长
  2. ..Detective Nardosa of the New York City Police Department.
     纽约市警察局的纳尔多萨警探
• (小说或故事)侦探的，破案的
  Adetectivenovel or story is one in which a detective tries to solve a crime.
• PHRASE 调查;探究
  If you do somedetective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
  1. 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

• Detectives launched an operation involving Interpol and Nigerian police.
  侦探们联合国际刑警与尼日利亚警方开展了一项行动。
• Fraud detectives are investigating the company, three of whose senior executives have already been arrested.
  行为欺诈调查侦探正在对这个公司进行调查，其3名高级管理人员已经被捕。
• Detectives are still searching for those who violated the graveyard.
  侦探们仍在搜捕那些亵渎了墓园的家伙。
• Detectives are liaising with Derbyshire police following the bomb explosion early today
  今天早些时候的炸弹爆炸案发生后，警探正与德比郡警方紧密合作。
• Detectives followed him for months hoping to catch him out in some deception
  侦探们跟踪了他几个月，希望能当场抓住他行骗。
• He was arrested by plain-clothes detectives as he walked through the customs hall.
  他穿过海关大厅时被便衣侦探逮捕。
• The detectives put a tap on the suspect's telephone.
  侦察人员在嫌疑犯的电话上装窃听装置。
• But aren't you two detectives forgetting something obvious?
  但是你是不是忘记了一些明显的东西？
• Detectives now believe the Mafia also had a stake in the plot and killed him when it went wrong.
  侦探们现在相信黑手党在这个阴谋中也有利害关系，并在事败后杀了他。
• And I saw some detectives taking him away.
  我看到一些侦探把他带走了。