private detective

美 [ˌpraɪvət dɪˈtektɪv]英 [ˌpraɪvət dɪˈtektɪv]
  • n.私人侦探

复数: private detectives

private detectiveprivate detective

noun

私人侦探
a detective who is not in the police, but who can be employed to find out information, find a missing person, follow sb, etc.

also private investigator
also informal private eye

private detective

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    N-COUNT 私人侦探;私家侦探
    A private detective is someone who you can pay to find missing people or do other kinds of investigation for you.

    The money enabled her to hire a private detective to search for evidence that would clear him.

    这些钱能让她雇一个私人侦探,帮助他寻找证据洗清罪名。

noun

1
someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
Synonym: PI private eye private investigator operative shamus sherlock

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  1. A private detective had been tailing them for several weeks .

    私人侦探几个星期来一直在跟踪他们。

  2. He was being followed by a private detective .

    他正被私家侦探跟踪。

  3. A private detective who lost his license a couple years ago .

    一位几年前就被吊销执照的私家侦探。

  4. I 'm a private detective , the last thing I need is a public image .

    我是私家侦探公众形象毫无益处

  5. I mean , you 're not exactly a private detective any more .

    就是说,你不再是个私家侦探了。

  6. I 'd say private detective , but ...

    我本想说…私家侦探但是呢

  7. You go back and tell my wife if a private detective couldn 't fool me ,

    你回去告诉我老婆,连私家侦探都骗不了我。

  8. Why did you hire a private detective the summer Alison went missing ?

    艾莉森消失的那个夏天你为什么要雇私家侦探

  9. Her heirs were her brother , James Albert , a private detective on Long Island who barely remembered the Bell name , along with a nephew and two nieces in Florida .

    她的继承人是弟弟詹姆斯·阿尔伯特(JamesAlbert),在长岛作私家侦探,他对贝尔这个名字已经没什么印象,此外在佛罗里达还有一男两女三个甥侄辈。

  10. Eighty-three percent of people questioned in the poll said they would try to trick them into confessing , 63 percent would pay for a private detective and more than half said they would have no qualms about checking emails and telephone logs .

    83%的受访者表示他们会采取一些小手段,“诱使”对方坦白;63%的人则表示会去找一个私家侦探;一半以上的人说他们会去查对方的电子邮件和电话记录。

  11. Leonora Quine , the dowdy wife of the novelist Owen Quine , hires our hero , the British private detective Cormoran Strike ( first seen last year in Rowling 's " The Cuckoo 's Calling " ) , to investigate the disappearance of her husband .

    本书主角是英国私家侦探克莫伦·斯特莱克(CormoranStrike),去年在罗琳的《布谷鸟的呼唤》(TheCuckoo’sCalling)中首度登场;小说家欧文·奎恩的妻子利奥诺拉·奎恩(LeonoraQuine)长相俗气,她雇用斯特莱克寻找失踪的老公。