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A sleuth is someone who tries to find out the truth about a crime — a detective. The word has a storybook, slightly old-fashioned flavour.
A sleuth Sleuth is是 someone who tries to find out the truth about a crime想辦法找出案件真相的人 — a detective也就是偵探。 The word這個字 has a storybook, slightly old-fashioned flavour帶點故事書、有點老派的味道。
Police officers almost never introduce themselves as sleuths at work; you meet it in novels, headlines, and jokes, and often with amateur: a neighbour who cannot leave a mystery alone. It is also a verb: to sleuth is to hunt for clues, quietly, maybe online, maybe by asking around.
Police officers警察 almost never introduce themselves as sleuths at work上班時幾乎不會自稱是 sleuth you meet it in novels, headlines, and jokes你會在小說、標題和玩笑話裡看到它 and often with amateur常常搭配 amateur（業餘）這個字 a neighbour who cannot leave a mystery alone用來形容那種放不下一個謎團的鄰居。 It它 is also a verb也可以當動詞 to sleuth is to hunt for clues, quietly to sleuth 就是安靜地找線索 maybe online, maybe by asking around可能在網路上，也可能到處打聽。
Though actually, it is a short form of an older word, sleuthhound, a dog that follows a scent. First the dog, then the person.
Though actually不過 it is a short form of an older word它其實是一個更古老的字的縮寫 sleuthhound就是 sleuthhound a dog that follows a scent指的是一種循著氣味追蹤的獵犬。 First先是 the dog那隻狗 then再來 the person才是那個人。
Do not mix it with sloth, the slow animal, or sloth meaning — they only look a little alike, and they are not related.
Do not mix it with sloth不要把它和 sloth 搞混 the slow animal那個動作很慢的動物 or sloth meaning laziness或是指懶惰的 sloth — they only look a little alike它們只是長得有點像 and they are not related其實沒有關係。
組成It is a clipping of sleuthhound. A sleuthhound was a tracking dog that follows a smell. People then used the short word for a person who hunts for the truth about a crime.
同家族的字
- sleuthhoundthe old full word — first a tracking dog, then the person
原始詞典資料6 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。
sleuthnoun詞源 1/sluːθ/
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A detective.
- 1908, Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?
- “This is a great piece of sleuth work for sure, and it significantly advances efforts to understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study.
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archaicA sleuthhound; a bloodhound.
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obsoleteAn animal’s trail or track.
sleuthverb詞源 1/sluːθ/
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To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.
- We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!
sleuthnoun詞源 2/sluːθ/
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obsoleteSlowness; laziness, sloth.
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rareA group of bears.
- As quietly as if I were practicing to join a sleuth of bears, I crept out the door and went on home, eventually winding up in the garage…
- If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.
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。