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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。

  1. “Police questioned the suspected driver for hours.” (警方盘问了涉嫌肇事司机数小时。)
  2. “The leak is suspected to have come from an old pipe.” (泄漏据信来自一根旧管道。)
  3. “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 attacksuspected case,强调未定罪;医疗 suspected fracture 指疑似骨折,需进一步检查。避免将 suspectedconvicted(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)

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。)