Detect
[dɪ'tekt] or [dɪ'tɛkt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; 'She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water'; 'We found traces of lead in the paint'.
克劳德特錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Detected.
(v. t.) To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.
(v. t.) To inform against; to accuse.
贾尔斯錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Discover, expose, descry, find out, bring to light, lay open.
丹整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Discover, descry, unmask, expose
ANT:Miss, lose, misobserve, ignore, connive
艾德琳校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. (lit.) to uncover—hence to discover: to find out.—adjs. Detect′able Detect′ible.—ns. Detect′er -or one who detects: an apparatus for detecting something as a detector-lock which shows if it has been tampered with; Detec′tion discovery of something hidden: state of being found out.—adj. Detect′ive employed in detecting.—n. a policeman employed in the investigation of special cases of crime or in watching special classes of wrong-doers usually not in uniform.—Private detective one employed by a private person to gain information or to watch his interests.
丹尼斯編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- In either case the distance through which the prongs move is very small and the period is very short, so that the eye can seldom detect the movement itself. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The only trace of his former self that I could detect reappeared, every now and then, in his manner towards Miss Fairlie. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She had even learnt to detect, in the very gentleness which had first delighted her, an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I passed whole hours in going from house to house, listening whether I could detect some lurking sign of human existence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Hence, in order to detect the presence of acid in a substance, one has merely to put some of the substance on blue litmus paper, and note whether or not the latter changes color. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He was never on the lookout to detect a slight, but saw one as soon as anybody when intentionally given. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He took none that could be detected, but, aware of his employer's suspicions, stood with his eyes on the ground. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- They were made to pronounce the word Shibboleth and were easily detected as enemies when they pronounced it Sibboleth. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The anxious terror in which Mr. Hale lived lest his son should be detected and captured, far out-weighed the pleasure he derived from his presence. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I never detected a sign of the medicine bottles being tampered with, I never saw Mrs. Rubelle say a word to the Count, or the Count to her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Unless there turn out to be further complications, such as I have not at present detected--yes, said Lydgate. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- At this sally another special laughed, and then tried to look so supernaturally solemn, that the magistrate detected him immediately. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Mr. Wallace has also detected one such case with birds, but we have none with the larger quadrupeds. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The thermometer can also be used in detecting adulterants. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Edison gave him one quick, searching glance and, detecting a bluff, replied in an offhand manner: There's a five-pound bottle in No. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I cannot remember detecting gratitude in his face. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Koch, whose success in detecting the microbes which cause consumption and cholera has made him famous the world over. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Even those of us who regard ourselves as active in mothering the process and alert in detecting its growth are by no means constantly aware of any great change. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
整理:弗娜