| 词汇 | collocation_english_detective |
| 释义 | Collocations with detectiveThese are words often used in combination with detective. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. amateur detective He used to be an amateur detective until a case went awry that ruined his reputation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. detective agency I defy anyone—other than a detective agency—who is willing to work from now until doomsday, to discover the people behind the company. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 detective fiction As readers of detective fiction, however, we are potentially much less prone to such existential and hermeneutic anxieties. detective novel Law and crime, theology and sin, evil in its human and eschatological manifestations, are all inextricably linked in the detective novel. police detective Further, broader comparisons between the development of the secret service operative and the professionalization of the urban police detective would be helpful. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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