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police

/pəˈlis/ 名词 A2

中文: 警察、警方、公安

  1. A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime. · Call the police!· Police! help! Police! help!
  2. A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement. (US)
  3. The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
  4. People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police. (figuratively) · Who called the fashion police?
  5. Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty. (slang)
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We have had some very strange doings at Hurlstone, and the police have been able to throw no light upon the matter.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第6页 · B2
I called in the local police, but without success.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第12页 · B2
The county police are at their wits’ end, and I have come up to you as a last resource.’
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第13页 · B2
“At my suggestion a couple of the county police were summoned to be present, and I then endeavoured to raise the stone by pulling on the cravat.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第21页 · B2

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