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

• 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。
• Detective work is Iike dating.
  探长的工作就好像约会。
• 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。
• 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。
• ` I did some detective work and discovered that trees were sometimes used as "wishing trees".
  我做过一些调查，发现有时人们把树当作‘许愿树’。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It's written for people who want to know exactly what versions of what libraries their application is using by typing a command, not by guesses and detective work.
  它的目标人群是安装者而不是分发者；是那些能够通过命令准确知道应用程序所使用的库版本的用户，而不是那些需要猜测库版本的用户；