detective work

英 [dɪˈtektɪv wɜːk]

美 [dɪˈtektɪv wɜːrk]

调查;探究

英英释义

noun

• a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
  1. detection is hard on the feet
  Synonym:detectiondetectingsleuthing

双语例句

• He said analysts often felt their jobs were more like fortune-telling than serious detective work.
  他表示，分析师们常常觉得，他们的工作更像是算命，而不是严肃的侦查工作。
• This morning I got her to do a bit of detective work.
  今天上午我让她又做了点查询工作。
• Experts from Brazil and Europe have joined in the detective work at USDA's bee lab in suburban Washington.
  来自巴西，欧洲的科学家已经加入了在位于华盛顿郊区的USDA蜜蜂实验室的探测工作。
• But with just a handful of bones to go on, it takes a lot of detective work to determine which features spell the difference between living another day and going the way of the dodo.
  但仅凭着手头这些恐龙骨骼化石，我们还要做大量的查证工作来确定，到底是哪些特征导致有些种类的恐龙可以以不同的方式生存了下来，而有些则走向灭绝。
• Here's where the detective work and the fun begins.
  探索工作，趣味所在将从这里开始。
• Almost ten years after its publication, the aged professor still got very excited over his book: "It was detective work. I had a lot of fun working on it."
  在这本书出版几乎十年以后，这位上了年纪的教授谈起这本书依然很兴奋：“这是一本侦探性的书，写这本书时可有意思了。”
• The clues are too sketchy, so it's hard to carry out our detective work.
  由于线索过于疏略，我们的侦破工作难度很大。那名侦探破门而入。侦查工作有重大突破。
• Well, Francis, do you suppose you could undertake a little piece of detective work for me, and handle it intelligently and quietly?
  那么，法兰西斯，你可以给我办一件小小的侦探工作，而且干得又巧妙，又秘密吗？
• But after some detective work of his own, he apparently discovered the culprit was a star-struck neighbour.
  但在经过自己的一番侦查后，他发现这个网络跟踪狂其实是他的邻居。
• But this kind of detective work is daunting.
  但这种侦查工作颇为艰巨。