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

• Due diligence is more a matter of detective work than fact-checking.
  尽职调查更多成为一种侦探工作，而非核实事实。
• USDA's top bee scientist, Jeff Pettis, who is coordinating the detective work on this die-off, has more suspected causes than time, people and money to look into them.
  美国农业部的首席蜜蜂科学家JeffPettis负责协调调查这次蜜蜂死亡，他有更多的人力和财力来调查，他认为除了时间外还有很多可怀疑的原因。
• "We're still trying to do the detective work here," Milburn said.
  “我们仍在试图做的侦查工作在这里，”米尔本说。
• 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。”
• But this kind of detective work is daunting.
  但这种侦查工作颇为艰巨。
• 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。
• 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。
• After a lot of detective work, I managed to find out where my old school friend was living.
  经大量调查，我设法查明了老校友的住处。
• 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。
• They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
  就是无止境地吃苦耐劳的本领。这个定义下得很不恰当，但是在侦探工作上倒还适用。