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单词 investigate
释义
investigate
(ɪnvestɪgeɪt )
Word forms: investigates , investigating , investigated
verb B2
If someone, especially an official, investigates an event, situation, or claim, they try to find out what happened or what is the truth.
Gas officials are investigating the cause of an explosion which badly damaged a house in Hampshire. [VERB noun]
The two officers were being investigated by the director of public prosecutions. [VERB noun]
Police are still investigating how the accident happened. [VERB wh]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: examine, study, research, consider  
investigation (ɪnvestɪgʃən )Word forms: investigations variable noun B2
He ordered an investigation into the affair. [+ into]
He has been notified by magistrates that he is under investigation for corruption.
Synonyms: examination, study, inquiry, hearing  
Collocations:
investigate a leak
He blusters that the police should investigate the leak (interesting if they were to invoke the laws on defamation while they were at it).
Times, Sunday Times
She and royal aides were investigating the leak last night amid fears her entire private photo album could be put online.
The Sun
Rove testified a total of five times before the federal grand jury investigating the leak.
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investigate a link
They called for further studies to investigate the link.
The Sun
Scientists are still investigating the link, but if you need another reason to get healthy, this might be it.
The Sun
The research investigated the link between joke appreciation, joke making and people's sense of their own morality, based on a suspicion the scientists had about their moral superiors.
Times, Sunday Times
If you are, as you have suggested previously, assembling a dossier of complaints about unfair exam marking, would you also investigate the links between exam boards and textbook publishing?
Times, Sunday Times
This was the first study that investigated the link between foot strike and injury rates.
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investigate a matter
We informed regulators immediately and are working closely with authorities to thoroughly investigate the matter.
Times, Sunday Times
This may help to reduce losses while you investigate the matter.
Times, Sunday Times
The letter states that, as the object in my sandwich was not recovered, it has not been possible to investigate the matter.
Times, Sunday Times
Police said that they could not investigate the matter unless they received an official complaint.
Times, Sunday Times
Unbelievably, it took three telephone calls and one visit to a branch before it would investigate the matter.
Times, Sunday Times
investigate a mystery
A specialist team from the fire service was later deployed to the scene investigate the mystery illness.
The Sun
After a two-year disbandment, the group reunites to investigate a mystery on a popular horror resort.
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She volunteers to investigate any mystery or crime that has recently affected her friends.
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The two resources will enable readers to investigate the mysteries in the most compressed of citations.
The Times Literary Supplement
Police were last night investigating the mystery discs which also contain a virus that destroys computer hard drives when loaded.
The Sun
investigate a phenomenon
This book tries to investigate the phenomenon of what makes some books bestsellers, not by cultural analysis or literary criticism, but by a process called 'text-mining'.
Times, Sunday Times
We are however unable to explain our findings and are reporting them to encourage others to investigate this phenomenon.
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The teacher determines to investigate this phenomenon intensively, maybe even obtaining a doctorate for her research.
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He held over sixty hearings during this time to investigate the phenomenon of corporate outsourcing.
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In order to investigate this phenomenon, a centrifuge with even higher speeds was needed, and thus the ultracentrifuge was created to apply the theory of sedimentation-diffusion.
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investigate a possibility
Two months later it said that it intended to investigate the possibility of demutualising.
Times, Sunday Times
As a result, she has appointed a marketer and a food scientist to investigate the possibility of turning her crops into starch.
ST
They were however continuing to investigate the possibility of equipment failure.
Times, Sunday Times
By all means investigate the possibility of selling it.
Times, Sunday Times
If you have a company car, you should investigate the possibility of buying it from your employer at its book value.
Times, Sunday Times
investigate a report
In between patrols the officers were dispatched to investigate a report of a burglar on a roof.
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They received a warning by phone and the village was sealed while security forces investigated the report.
Times, Sunday Times
If you have no luck, make a formal complaint to the council's environmental health officers, who are legally obliged to investigate a reported noise nuisance.
Times, Sunday Times
Cops said they were 'investigating a report of substances believed to be inside a property'.
The Sun
It had received complaints about this tweet, 'investigated the reported content', but decided 'we have not taken any action at this time'.
Times, Sunday Times
investigate a theft
The police who came to investigate the theft were kind, but it wasn't long before they told me there was not much more they could do.
Times, Sunday Times
Police also investigated the thefts of horses, goats and rabbits along with 58 lobsters and a ferret.
Times, Sunday Times
This could include hefty fines if electricity companies do not investigate the thefts swiftly.
The Sun
Police said that they were investigating the thefts 'as a matter of urgency'.
Times, Sunday Times
Cops were investigating the theft of clothes and jewellery from a chain store, a source said.
The Sun
investigate properly
Yet despite clear evidence, the police, coroner's office and local health authority all failed to investigate properly.
The Sun
A military police source said this demand meant the team had been given insufficient time to investigate properly.
Times, Sunday Times
She wanted her remaining 6,190 back and for the authorities to investigate properly.
Times, Sunday Times
Did they investigate properly or was it more important to maintain the glitzy façade?
Times, Sunday Times
He demanded that it investigate properly.
Times, Sunday Times
investigate the origin of
Maps can help to investigate the origin of an epidemic as well as to provide a powerful illustration of its extent, and they are commonly used in epidemiological studies today.
Times, Sunday Times
Attempts to investigate the origin of life through the creation of synthetic protoplasm in the laboratory were not successful.
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Investigating the origins of words can also help.
Times, Sunday Times
The couple continued their work investigating the origin of the elements.
Times,Sunday Times
More than 250 objects, dating from the 17th century to the present, explore the notion of camp and investigate the origins of the flamboyant aesthetic.
Times, Sunday Times
investigate the relationship between
We investigated the relationship between antithrombin levels and organ failure as well as mortality in pediatric patients with sepsis.
Christian Niederwanger, Tobias Hell, Sophie Hofer, Christina Salvador, Miriam Michel, Bettina Schenk, Benedikt Treml, Mirjam Bachler 2018, 'Antithrombin deficiency is associated with mortality and impaired organ function in septic pediatric patients: a retrospective study', PeerJ
Based on the attribution theory, we present a model to investigate the relationship between employee voice and employee performance appraisal.
Xiaoyan Su, Yating Liu, Nancy Hanson-Rasmussen 2017, 'Voice Behavior, Supervisor Attribution and Employee Performance Appraisal', Sustainability
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between log file records and corpus frequency.
Lars Trap-Jensen, Henrik Lorentzen, Nicolai H. Sørensen 2014, 'An odd couple – Corpus frequency and look-up frequency: what relationship?', Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave
Since these are known as the origin of sodic soils, the relationship was investigated.
G. NAGY, L. NAGY 2016, 'COMPARISON OF THE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE DISPERSIVE AND SODIC SOILS', Riscuri şi Catastrofe
investigate thoroughly
Regrettably, we don't get it right every time, and on the rare occasion something goes wrong we always endeavour to investigate thoroughly, honestly and transparently.
Times,Sunday Times
We have a duty to investigate thoroughly, and to use our powers appropriately and proportionately.
Times, Sunday Times
I can just imagine criminals making plans for odd-number addresses, safe in the knowledge they won't get investigated thoroughly.
The Sun
Still, decisions should wait until you've investigated thoroughly.
Times, Sunday Times
The crimes against them must be investigated thoroughly, with integrity and with no hint of political bias or concealment.
Times, Sunday Times
investigate wrongdoing
He suggests that it should have the power to investigate wrongdoing by the press but gives warning that politicians should not be allowed to impose statutory regulation.
Times, Sunday Times
There needs to be a regulator that can investigate wrongdoing and penalise breaches of the industry code.
Times, Sunday Times
We need your support to hold governments to account, to investigate wrongdoing, to report on a rapidly changing world and to shine a little light in the darkness.
Times, Sunday Times
One set of amendments would tighten the public interest exemption currently granted to journalists who handle private data while investigating wrongdoing.
Times, Sunday Times
investige the cause
The insurance company retained a certified fire investigator to investigate the cause and origin of the fire.
Christianity Today
Unfortunately, they didn't survive, and we're now working with the police to investigate the cause of fire.
Times, Sunday Times
He says that last year he was turned away from the hospital when he wanted them to investigate the cause of his failing eyesight.
Times, Sunday Times
After the rescue more health and safety officers arrived - to investigate the cause of the crash.
The Sun
The aim of the study was to investigate the cause of the experience, and assess variables connected to frequency, depth, and content.
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police investigate
An inquest has been adjourned while police investigate.
The Sun
He has been suspended while police investigate him for misconduct in public office.
The Sun
Top brass have allowed him to carry on working while police investigate.
The Sun
Meanwhile, sinister anomalies start to appear as the police investigate the blaze.
Times,Sunday Times
They alerted the search giant and demanded that the police investigate.
Times, Sunday Times
researchers investigate
Many researchers investigate the biogeochemical cycles of chemical elements such as carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur, as well as their stable isotopes.
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Researchers investigated how emotions such as happiness, pain, stress, sadness and fatigue varied during travel and by travel methods.
Times, Sunday Times
Instead of looking at the organisational context, some researchers investigate the intra-firm aspects at personal level of organisational knowledge networks, where knowledge management processes start and end.
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Word recognition would be no doubt the most essential process of bilingual lexical access in language comprehension, in which researchers investigate the selective or non-selective recognition of isolated words.
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Researchers investigating the impact of humor must also control for various other issues.
The Scientist
scientists investigate
Here, scientists investigate whether one member of the species may still be alive.
The Sun
The labs scientists investigate the properties of rare isotopes and nuclear reactions.
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Instead, scientists investigate the processes of forgetting (amnesia), and recollection.
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The scientists investigate how these cells accomplish their complex tasks through a combination of physiological measurements, the latest techniques in microscopy, and computer simulations.
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study investigates
This study investigated the performance of a compression ignition engine operating with sunflower ethyl ester.
Emin Açıkkalp, Hasan Yamık, Yakup İçingür 2017, 'Performance of a compression ignition engine operated with sunflower ethyl ester under different engine loads', Journal of Energy in Southern Africa
This study investigated the degradation and enzymatic saccharification of cornstalk by white-rot and brown rot fungi.
Xuejun Wu, Qi An, Yucheng Dai, Jing Si 2016, 'Investigating Lignocellulose in Cornstalk Pretreated with Trametes pubescens Cui 7571 to Improve Enzymatic Saccharification', BioResources
This study investigated the adsorption potential of carbaryl onto alluvial soil.
Naba Kumar Mondal, Soumya Chattoraj, Bikash Sadhukhan, Biswajit Das 2013, 'Evaluation of carbaryl sorption in alluvial soil', Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST)
This study investigated the effect of vigor level in the performance of six oleraceous species seeds.
Denis Santiago da Costa, Rafael Marani Barbosa, Marco Eustaquio de Sá 2011, 'ACCELERATED AGING OF OLERACEOUS SPECIES SEEDS ENVELHECIMENTO ACELERADO DE SEMENTES DE ESPÉCIES OLERÁCEAS', Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical
This study investigated the effect of a proso millet extract on the inhibition of tyrosinase, a key enzyme in melanogenesis.
Wen-Ying Huang, Hui-Ju Chen, Chia-Ching Lin, Chin-Shuh Chen, Yung-Sheng Lin 2018, 'Kinetics Investigation on Mushroom Tyrosinase Inhibition of Proso Millet', Journal of Chemistry
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