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/ɪnˈvestəɡeɪtər/ · /ɪnˈvestəɡeɪtə/
someone whose job is to find out the facts about something, especially about a crime, an accident, or a problem, so that it can be explained.
調查員
複數 investigators
核心畫面
You can picture the person who arrives after something has already happened — a crime, a crash, a failure — and whose job is to work backwards until the facts line up and the thing can be explained. Not the person who fixes it or judges it: the person who finds out what actually took place.
可以想成事情已經發生之後才到場的那個人：命案、空難、系統出包之後，他的工作是往回推，把事實一件一件拼到說得通為止。他…更多收起
可以想成事情已經發生之後才到場的那個人：命案、空難、系統出包之後，他的工作是往回推，把事實一件一件拼到說得通為止。他不是負責修的人，也不是負責判誰對誰錯的人——他負責查出「到底發生了什麼」。所以 investigator 幾乎都跟一個已經發生的事件綁在一起。原始詞典資料1 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。
investigatornoun/ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ̯.təː/
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One who investigates.
- That the Oath Keepers recording went uninvestigated by the FBI until after January 6 is an “additional piece of information that congressional investigators in particular on the January 6th committee and the other Homeland Security committees should be looking at to determine whether or not the FBI and other law enforcement organizations were doing enough on the prevention side,” Cordero told CNN’s Ana Cabrera on Tuesday.
- Over the past year, Hur was tasked with investigating classified documents found at Biden’s home and private office from his time as vice president. Hur was seen as a meticulous investigator during the probe, sources told CNN.
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。