喜樂美語
  1. 1vC1/dɪˈtekt/偵測；察覺

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

    示範例句 · Example

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

    逐字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。

    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。

    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

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

過去式 detected過去分詞 detected-ing detecting三單 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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