investigate a strangling
strangling 作可数名词,前面可加不定冠词,常与 investigate、solve 等动词搭配。
Police are still investigating a strangling that took place near the river.
警方仍在调查一起发生在河边的勒杀案。
勒杀罪;扼杀罪
以扼死方式杀人的罪行。;扼杀
以扼死方式杀人的罪行。
The crime of killing by strangling.
The detective described the strangling as a crime of impulse rather than premeditation.
侦探描述这起勒杀案是冲动犯罪,而非预谋犯罪。
用法提示:此处 strangling 为名词,指勒杀行为或罪行。
She wrote a book about the infamous strangling that shocked the city in 1920.
她写了一本书,讲述1920年震惊全城的那起臭名昭著的勒杀案。
用法提示:strangling 在此作名词,指该勒杀事件本身。
The court records show that the strangling took place in the victim's own home.
法庭记录显示,这起勒杀案发生在受害者自己家中。
用法提示:strangling 用作名词,表示勒杀这一犯罪行为。
strangling 作可数名词,前面可加不定冠词,常与 investigate、solve 等动词搭配。
Police are still investigating a strangling that took place near the river.
警方仍在调查一起发生在河边的勒杀案。
用“the strangling of + 受害者”指出具体的勒杀罪行。
The trial focused on the strangling of a teenage girl.
庭审的焦点是一名十几岁女孩遭勒杀的案子。
复数 stranglings 指多起勒杀案件,常与 a series of 等短语连用。
The city was horrified by a series of stranglings last winter.
去年冬天一连串的勒杀案让全城陷入恐慌。
grammar · medium
易错句子Strangle is a serious crime.
正确表达Strangling is a serious crime.
strangle 是动词,不能直接作主语或名词;表示“勒杀罪”这一名词概念时,要用 -ing 形式 strangling。
grammar · medium
易错句子Many strangling have been reported this year.
正确表达Many stranglings have been reported this year.
表示多起勒杀案件时,strangling 是可数名词,many 后必须用复数形式 stranglings,不能保留单数形式。
strangulation 指勒颈致死的行为或手段,不特指罪名;strangling 在本义项下是法律上的“勒杀罪”。
choking 多指气道受阻造成的窒息,常为意外,不一定是他人所为;strangling 强调以扼颈方式故意杀人,构成犯罪。
strangler 指实施勒杀的人,是施事者名词;strangling 指勒杀罪行本身,二者词形相近但所指不同。
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