sleuth
英[slu?θ]
美[sluθ]
- n. 偵探；警犬
- vi. 做偵探；偵查
詞態變化
復數:?sleuths;
中文詞源
sleuth 偵探，偵查，調查
來自古諾斯語 sloth,足跡，蹤跡，詞源不詳。可能來自輔音叢 sl-,砍，劈，分開。引申比喻義 偵查，調查，偵探等。
英文詞源
- sleuth
- sleuth: [12] Sleuth originally meant ‘track, trail’ (‘John of Lorn perceived the hound had lost the sleuth’, John Barbour, The Bruce 1375). It was borrowed from Old Norse slóth ‘track, trail’, which was probably also the ultimate source of English slot ‘trail of an animal’ [16]. In the 14th century the compound sleuth-hound ‘bloodhound for tracking fugitives’ was coined. This was later shortened back to sleuth, and applied in 19th-century America to a ‘detective’.
=> slot - sleuth (n.)
- c. 1200, "track or trail of a person," from Old Norse sloe "trail," of uncertain origin. Meaning "detective" is 1872, shortening of sleuth-hound "keen investigator" (1849), a figurative use of a word that dates back to late 14c. meaning a kind of bloodhound. The verb (intransitive) meaning "to act as a detective, investigate" is recorded from 1905. Related: Sleuthed; sleuthing.
雙語例句
- 1. I answered yes, and he became an un relenting sleuth.
- 我回答說是有點象, 他立馬就成了個一追到底的偵探!
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- 2. I answered yes, and he became an unrelenting sleuth.
- 在我肯定地回答他后, 他便成了一名不屈不撓的“偵探”.
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- 3. The elderly sleuth left cash out in room as bait and then waited in a toilet.
- 留了些現金作為誘餌,然后躲在廁所里.
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