sleuthing

1 I want you to promise no more sleuthing, at least while we're in California.

我要你发誓再不做侦探了，至少我们在加州这段时间不许做了。

2 After that it was a matter of sleuthing—investigating crevices that would be a convenient place to hide a book-shaped object, observing a pile of freshly dug dirt, or noticing something out of place.

3 Koenig’s exhaustive sleuthing poked holes in the prosecution’s case and showcased the journalistic potential of podcasts.

4 With that sleuthing behind him, Mr. Happel started ordering the first of what would eventually grow to some 2,250 yards — more than a mile — of metallic trim and ribbon for the new “Midsummer” costumes.

5 As it happened, he had done some sleuthing in a warehouse that had belonged to Porter’s French publisher.

6 That’s where he brings Ava for what turns out to be a night not only of sex but also of sleuthing into his grandfather’s past.

7 Luckily there’s a ton of sleuthing apps to help you keep tabs on him.

8 Another student had apparently done some sleuthing about him.

9 Part of what makes “In a Lonely Place” a great example of noir is that it only sounds like a whodunit; the sleuthing, which occurs mainly offscreen, is tangential to the movie’s true subject.

10 Caught up in this amateur sleuthing, he doesn’t notice that his younger son is slipping into a raging heroin addiction, which, you may be surprised to learn, causes some perception problems of its own.

11 No one is sleuthing out a family secret that might shed light on the characters today.

12 Her sleuthing uncovers secrets that put her own life in danger.

13 But her resistance slowly melts away as her old sleuthing skills return — until, that is, someone goes missing and the case takes a turn.

14 Another great inspector is spending Sunday evenings sleuthing on the great PBS "Masterpiece Mystery!" series.

15 Lethem is sleuthing around as he did almost 20 years ago in “Motherless Brooklyn,” but this time he’s 3,000 miles away from New York in the mountains of Southern California.

16 That murder is the mystery that drives Mars to start sleuthing when her father, a former sheriff of their California town, opens a P.I. agency.

17 But what he really wants to hire is Faith’s sleuthing talent, because he strongly suspects that one of his guests wants to kill him.

18 A spot of web sleuthing reveals that Tomorrow's Harvest is the name of an online clothing and supplies store that seems to cater for crisis scenarios – frozen and sealed food supplies, gas masks, solar power.

19 Mr. Robinson is Leroy Wright, a former Los Angeles detective — and the skeptic to Max’s true believer — now using his sleuthing skills as a mall security guard.

20 They still do their sleuthing the old-fashioned way, banging on doors and visiting crime scenes, even if in recent years they’ve been chasing clues via the Internet.

1 调查

check study research investigation examination enquiry screen examine investigate canvass enquire into check out look into

2 侦查

investigative investigation detection investigate