Suspected
“Suspected” 来自 suspect(怀疑、猜想)。作形容词修饰名词(a suspected thief),或作谓语(He is suspected of fraud)。语气表示尚未证实,法律上常用 alleged 等更正式词并列出现。
- “Police questioned the suspected driver for hours.” (警方盘问了涉嫌肇事司机数小时。)
- “The leak is suspected to have come from an old pipe.” (泄漏据信来自一根旧管道。)
- “She suspected nothing until she checked the bank statement.” (她查银行对账单前毫无察觉——此处为动词过去式。)
sus-(在下、暗中)+ spect(看)来自拉丁语 suspicere(从下往上看、怀疑),意象为“暗自审视、心存疑虑”。
suspect + -ed;名词 suspect(嫌疑人)、suspicion(怀疑)同源。
新闻常用 suspected attack、suspected case,强调未定罪;医疗 suspected fracture 指疑似骨折,需进一步检查。避免将 suspected 与 convicted(已定罪)混用。
- 固定搭配: “suspected of” (涉嫌……), “prime suspect” (主要嫌疑人), “suspected cause” (疑似原因)
与 spectator(观看者)共享 spect(看)——暗中盯着看 = 怀疑 → suspected。
“The lab flagged a suspected error in the data, so the team reran the experiment before publishing.” (实验室发现数据疑似有误,团队在发表前重做了实验。)