whodunit

英 [ˈhuːdʌnɪt]

美 [huˈdʌnɪt]

n.  凶杀悬疑小说(或电影、戏剧)

复数：whodunits　

COCA.28380

英英释义

noun

• a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
  Synonym:mysterymystery story

双语例句

• Guests take on the characters of classic whodunit suspects and spend a weekend trying to find out who among them is the "murderer".
  客人们扮演那些经典侦探小说中的嫌疑人，用一个周末的时间来找出他们中的哪一个是“杀人犯”。
• So long as human beings remain curious, there seems no doubt that the whodunit, in all its various forms, will continue to exert its fatal attraction.
  只要人类还有好奇心，那么毫无疑问，各种各样的侦探小说就会继续发挥它致命的诱惑力。
• The blessing/ curse here is that you turn the pages for the whodunit, but you never lose sight that these observations on the publishing world come from the very top.
  这里面的好处/坏处在于，你把它当做一部侦探小说来阅读，但你总会注意到书中充满对出版界的观察，这种观察正来自出版界的顶层。
• The kind of whodunit Agatha Christie wrote is certainly old-fashioned.
  阿加莎·克里斯蒂所著的侦探小说当然可谓风格陈旧。
• Director Tsui Hark's clever whodunit set in7th-century China is a movie he couldn't have made when he first began exploring the idea more than two decades ago.
  20多年前，当徐克导演第一次萌发拍摄神探狄仁杰故事的念头时，他还没有能力把他对于这部发生在中国七世纪充满智慧的侦探故事的想象都变成现实。
• Whodunit: None of the kids that live in your house.
  侦探小说：你家小孩中谁都不承认自己干了坏事。
• He loves sitting by the fire and reading a good whodunit.
  他喜欢坐在火边读侦探小说。