单词	sleuthing
释义	sleuthsleuth /sluːθ/ noun [countable] old-fashioned Word Origin WORD ORIGINsleuth Origin: 1800-1900 sleuthhound ‘dog used for tracking people’ (14-20 centuries), from sleuth ‘track’ (12-15 centuries) (from Old Norse sloth) + hound Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS After the accusation, they are worried-sick parents, small-town pariahs, amateur lawyers, sometime sleuths, etc. But for once, the gentleman sleuth left home for the bright lights. By the same date the Recruit case sleuths should have completed their investigations. Few of us would consider the possibility that the information has been obtained through the services of a psychic sleuth. He has his sleuth say once that to commit a murder you need four aces. The sleuths are in more danger with every discovery they make. What his sleuths seek are truths that everybody else knows already, or is afraid to know. someone who tries to find out information about a crime SYN  detective—sleuthing noun [uncountable]
随便看	indigestible indigestion indignant indignantly indignation indignity indigo indirect indirect cost indirect discourse indirectly indirect object indirect speech indirect tax indirect taxation indiscernible indiscipline indiscreet indiscretion indiscriminate indiscriminately indispensable indisposed indisposition indisputable

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