喜樂美語
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    vC1

    /dɪˈtekt/

    to notice or find something that is very small, faint, or hard to see, hear, or feel.

    偵測；察覺

    過去式 detected過去分詞 detected-ing detecting三單 detects

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Picture a signal so faint that it would slip past most people — a trace of smoke, a small change in a voice, one wrong figure in a long column. This word is about catching that. The thing was always there; what the word adds is that someone, or some machine, was sensitive enough to pick it up.

可以想成：一個微弱到幾乎會被略過的訊號——一點點煙味、語氣裡一絲不對勁、一長串數字裡的一個異常。這個字說的就是「接住…更多收起可以想成：一個微弱到幾乎會被略過的訊號——一點點煙味、語氣裡一絲不對勁、一長串數字裡的一個異常。這個字說的就是「接住了它」。東西本來就在那裡，這個字加上去的是：有人或某台儀器夠敏銳，把它抓到了。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

detectverb詞源 1/dɪˈtɛkt/

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    To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.

    • Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
    • Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].
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    rareTo work as a detective.

detectadj詞源 1/dɪˈtɛkt/

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    obsoleteDetected.

detectverb詞源 2/dɪˈtɛkt/

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    informalTo work or solve cases as a detective.

    • Parker would in all likelihood have done so; he was paid to detect and to do nothing else, and neither his natural gifts nor his education (at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School) prompted him to stray into side-tracks at the beck of an ill-regulated imagination.
    • Let me introduce myself: Mike MacAdam, hotel detective. / H-how d-’you do? / Mind if I begin detecting?

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。