名詞 detective:

1. a police officer who investigates crimes
   同義詞：investigator, tec, police detective
2. an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public

1. Sherlock Holmes has nothing on you you're a real detective.
   福爾摩斯也沒(méi)有你本事大--你是真的偵探。
2. The detective posed as a mourner at the victim's funeral.
   那偵探佯裝成吊唁者參加了受害人的葬禮。
3. The detective tried to reason out how the thief had escaped.
   這個(gè)偵探反復(fù)琢磨想弄明白那個(gè)竊賊是怎樣逃跑的。
4. The detective thought the stick was relative to the murder case.
   偵探認(rèn)為這根木棒和謀殺案有牽連。
5. The detective laid great stress on details.
   偵探特別強(qiáng)調(diào)細(xì)節(jié)。
6. The detective was trying to ascertain exactly who was at the party.
   這個(gè)偵探試圖查明都有誰(shuí)參加了聚會(huì)。
7. I could now see what the detective was driving at: he was trying to establish my whereabouts on the night of the crime.
   我現(xiàn)在能夠明白偵探的意思了：他那時(shí)正試圖確定案發(fā)那天夜晚我的行蹤。
8. The company hired a detective to investigate the accident.
   公司雇傭了一名偵探來(lái)調(diào)查這次事故。

de.tec.tive

n.（名詞）
A person, usually a member of a police force, who investigates crimes and obtains evidence or information.
偵探：通常指警察隊(duì)伍中，調(diào)查犯罪并獲取證據(jù)或信息的人
adj.（形容詞）
Of or relating to detectives or their work:
偵探的：偵探的或偵探工作的，與有關(guān)的：
例句：
detective novels.
偵探小說(shuō)

Suited for or used in detection.
適于探測(cè)的，用于探測(cè)的

<注釋>The first detective may have come into existence before the word itself.C. Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe`s hero in .The Murders in the Rue Morgue,. which is considered the world`s first real detective story,was introduced to the world in 84.Nine years later we find the first recorded instance of the worddetective, although the phrases detective police and detective policeman, from which it was shortened, are recorded first in 843. Hence, Dupin precedes all recorded instances ofdetective, just as he precedes all other detectives.
第一個(gè)偵探在.偵探.這個(gè)詞出現(xiàn)以前就出現(xiàn)了。C·奧古斯·杜平，埃德加·愛(ài)波·倫的小說(shuō)《莫格街謀殺案》（這本書被認(rèn)為是世界上第一本真正的偵探小說(shuō)）中的主人公，在84年被介紹給全世界。雖然詞條detective police 和 detective policeman (detective就是這兩者的縮寫）首次被記載是在843年，但九年后，我們才找到對(duì) detective 這個(gè)詞的第一次記載。 迄今為止，杜平最早記載detective ， 正如他就是最早的偵探一樣