喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ɪnˈvestəɡeɪtər/ · /ɪnˈvestəɡeɪtə/調查員

    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.

    示範例句 · Example

    Police investigators asked everyone at the school the same three questions.

    逐字警方調查員問了學校裡每個人同樣的三個問題。

    investigator 是「負責把事情查清楚的人」——他的工作就是收集事實，弄明白發生了什麼、是誰做的、怎麼造成的。最常見的是查案子的 police investigators（警方調查員），但空難、火災、保險理賠、實驗室裡也都有 investigator。可以想成 investigate（調查）加上 -or（做這件事的人）長出來的字。detective 指的是警察裡專門辦案的人；investigator 範圍大很多，警察以外的公司、機關也有。

    常見搭配

    • police investigator

      警方調查員

      an investigator who works for the police

      Police investigators arrived at the museum before lunch.

    • private investigator

      私家偵探

      someone that people pay directly to find out about something, not a police officer

      Mei's grandmother once hired a private investigator to find an old friend.

    • a team of investigators

      一組調查員

      a group of people working together on one investigation

      A team of investigators is checking every part of the plane.

    • lead investigator

      主導調查的人；調查負責人

      the investigator who is in charge of the others

      Ren is the lead investigator on this case.

    • accident investigator

      事故調查員

      someone whose job is to find out how an accident happened

      Accident investigators looked closely at the bus tyres.

    • federal investigator

      聯邦調查人員

      an investigator working for the national government (mainly US)

      Federal investigators asked the bank for its records.

core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。

同家族的字

複數 investigators

原始詞典資料1 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。

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.

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