喜樂美語
  1. 1v/dɪˈtekt/偵測；察覺

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

    detect 是「注意到很難發現的東西」——通常因為它很小、很模糊，不容易被看到、聽到或感覺到。可以是人靠感官發現的（一種味道、一點聲音），也可以是機器或儀器測量出來的（溫度、心跳、煙）。detect 比 notice 更正式，也更強調「本來不容易發現」，常出現在科學、醫學、安全這些情境。

    示範例句 · Example

    The smoke alarm in our kitchen detected smoke before anyone even smelled it.

    中文翻譯我們廚房裡的煙霧警報器在任何人聞到之前，就偵測到了煙。

    常見搭配

    • detect a change (in something)

      偵測到（某事物中的）變化

      to notice that something is different from before

      The sensor detected a change in temperature inside the fridge.

    • detect a smell/sound/movement

      偵測到味道／聲音／動靜

      to notice something using your senses, even when it is faint

      She detected a faint sound coming from behind the door.

    • Do I detect a note of...?

      我是不是察覺到一絲…（的情緒）？

      used to guess a small feeling in someone's voice or face

      Do I detect a note of relief now that the test is over?

    • easily detected / hard to detect

      容易／很難被偵測到

      used to say how easy or difficult something is to notice

      The fake coins were so good that they were hard to detect.

    • a device/system that can detect something

      能偵測到…的裝置／系統

      used to describe what a machine or instrument is able to notice

      This alarm can detect even the smallest amount of smoke.

    意思相反

    missoverlook

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Latin detectus, past participle of detegere 'to uncover', from de- + tegere 'to cover'.

源自拉丁文 dētegere「揭開」，由 de- 加 tegere「蓋住」組成。

Wiktionary

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。

同家族的字

detected detected detecting detects

意思相反

missoverlook

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/

  • 1

    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; [...].
  • 2

    rareTo work as a detective.

detectadj詞源 1/dɪˈtɛkt/

  • 1

    obsoleteDetected.

detectverb詞源 2/dɪˈtɛkt/

  • 1

    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?

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