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

• He will take detectives mills and Somerset to them.
  他会带米尔斯和萨默塞特警官去。
• A week later we talked to the detectives, and they told us about that night.
  一周之后，我们同警员谈话，他们告诉了我们那晚所发生的事。
• Local detectives have ruled out foul play.
  当地的侦探已经排除了他杀的可能性。
• I heard two detectives were staking out.
  我听说两个警察在密切监视。
• 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。
• And I saw some detectives taking him away.
  我看到一些侦探把他带走了。
• Detectives have been hunting him for seven months
  侦探7个月来一直在追捕他。
• 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。
• 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。
• Now I understand what happened to those other detectives.
  现在我明白其他侦探发生什么了。