culprit
['kʌlprit]
n.罪犯, 起因
例句与用法：
The culprit will be whipped when he is found.
那个罪犯找到后就要挨鞭子抽打。
The police are now on the scent of the culprit.
警方已获得罪犯的线索。
The hunt is on for the culprit.
正在搜捕该罪犯。
词形变化：
副词: culpably | 名词: culpability |
n.[C]
1. 被控犯罪的人; 刑事被告
2. 罪犯
culprit
名词复数：culprits
词形变化：
副词: culpably | 名词: culpability |
词义辨析：
同义:
n.罪犯; 未决犯
offender
sinner
wrongdoer
de
felon
malefactor
同义参见:
criminal
culprit['kʌlprit]n.1.■刑事被告，被控犯罪的人；未决犯2.■罪犯，犯人
culpritculprit[ˈkʌlprit]n.1.■犯人, 罪犯2.■【律】刑事被告, 未决犯, 嫌疑犯3.■肇事者; (出)事故的原因4.■故障所在处main culprit主犯, 罪魁祸首
noun
- a person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed
罪犯，犯人；导致过错的人
■the cause of a problem or defect
导致问题的原因；产生不良后果的事物
low-level ozone pollution is the real culprit.
低层臭氧污染是真正的根源。
- late 17th cent. (originally in the formula Culprit, how will you be tried?, said by the Clerk of the Crown to a prisoner pleading not guilty): perhaps from a misinterpretation of the written abbreviation cul. prist, for Anglo-Norman French Culpable: prest d'averrer notre bille ('You are) guilty: (We are) ready to prove our indictment'; in later use influenced by Latin culpa 'fault, blame'
culprit
■"I thought it was completely childish," Mosley said, admitting that the culprit had been "John Howett, the Toyota man".
"我认为这是完全幼稚，“莫斯利说，承认的罪魁祸首是”约翰豪威特，丰田男子".
■From 1993 to 1995, the main culprit in Longnan point will personally take charge of the leadership, led by the implementation of chukars BA Xiang mu irrigated projects.
1993年至1995年,在陇南地委主要领导亲自抓点带动下,石鸡坝乡实施万亩水浇地工程,。
■Smog, once an urban annoyance, is now recognized as a health risk, and the automobile has been pinpointed as the principal culprit.
??烟尘，原先只不过是一桩使城市居民感到烦恼的事，现在则被公认为危害健康的因素。汽车已被确认为损害健康的罪魁祸首。
■A main culprit to the downward revision was the yawning trade deficit.That shaved 0.7 percentage point off the first-quarter GDP, which was twice as much as estimated a month ago.
GDP增长速度减慢的罪魁祸首正是不断扩大的贸易逆差，它从第一季度的GDP中削去了0.7个百分点，这一数字是一个月前预期的两倍。
■Kwame Nkrumah, without taking into account local collusion with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which has been considered the key culprit.
KwameNkrumah的下台，但却避而不谈当地某些人与美国中央情报局(CIA)的共谋，后者一直被视为该事件的主要源由。
■"The real culprit," one historian has argued,"was the system itself".
一个历史学家争辩道，“真正的病根在于这个制度本身。”
■A likely culprit was a small peptide called CRH that is released in a part of the brain associated with stress and anxiety.
一个很有可能的“犯罪分子”是一个被称为“CRH”的短肽，这种短肽会被释放到大脑中和压力与焦虑相关的区域。
■Some considered diseases such as Verticillium wilt the culprit.
一些人认为是棉黄萎病为其病因。
■Following the marauding ship's unique radiation trail, the Enterprise soon catches up with the culprit: an Orion vessel.
一种可怕的疾病“绒毛膜腺细胞瘤”席捲进取号。除史波克外大家都治愈了，因为这种疾病只对瓦肯人来说是致命的。
■It is generally thought that salt is a culprit in this disease.
一般认为食盐是这种病的病因。
■Then another suspect appears, someone from Hee-rah's past, whom Min-ho believes to be the culprit.
不久，一个和熙兰的过去有著密切关系的男人出现，民浩锁定这男人就是新的嫌疑犯。
■But no matter who the culprit 凶手 is, the government is struggling to stop the burnings.
不管真凶是谁，为了扑灭这场危机大火，阿富汗政府费尽了心思。
■Prenatal Diagnosis Center, and doctors to communicate, she found that "passive smoking" may be the culprit.
与产前诊断中心的医生沟通后，她发现“二手烟”可能是罪魁祸首。
■Despite CTU's confirmation of the evidence against the trio of culprit countries, Syed Ali staunchly denies that the recordings are authentic.
东尼深信埃萨尔与三中东国家有联络，但美思却感到事有跷蹊，对录音带的真伪感怀疑，暗中通知智杰，希望他查明究竟。
■The prime culprit has been fallen into the net.
主犯已经落网。
■Perhaps the most unlikely culprit singled out in the claims was a pile of decomposing carrots, which caused a driver to skid and lose control of his vehicle.
也许从一堆索赔单里挑出的最不可能的理由就是下面这个：一个驾车人刹车失灵，车子失控发生事故。其原因是大批腐烂胡萝卜的液体让路面变得湿滑。
■Performance pay is supposed to motivate workers, but lack of motivation is not always the culprit.
人们认为业绩工资可以激励工人们，但是缺少激励并不总是事故的原因。
■A tiny quirk in one of the human bodys approximately 25,000 genes may be the culprit behind one of the worlds most common, and painful, forms of arthritis.
人体约莫2万5000个基因之中一个基因的一丁点大的乱序，很可能是全球最普遍、也很疼痛的、有诸般形态的关节炎的元凶。
■A tiny quirk in one of the human body's approximately25,000 genes may be the culprit behind one of the world's most common, and painful, forms of arthritis.
人体约莫2万5000个基因之中一个基因的一丁点大的乱序，很可能是全球最普遍、很疼痛的、诸般形态的关节炎的元凶。
■The spread of artificial lights also could be a culprit, disrupting the intricate mating behavior that depends on a male winning over a female with its flashing backside.
人造光的发展同样也是原因之一，打乱了雄性依靠自己背部的光源发光吸引雌性的复杂的求偶行为。
■The culprit appears to be a privately-owned cameraphone.
从图片上看来泄漏者似乎是用个人使用的摄像手机拍摄的照片。
■A wet bedsheet under baby's head, a drool rash on the cheeks and chin, swollen and tender gums, and a slight fever are telltale clues that teething is the nighttime culprit.
从枕下潮湿，脸颊下巴流口水，肿胀的牙龈，低烧等等都可以推断出长牙是夜奶频繁的罪魁祸首。
■It is clear from these data that coal is the main culprit.
从这些数据可以清楚地看出，煤是主要的祸根。
■Once they found the real culprit, they let Mary off the hook.
他们一发现真正的罪犯，就释放了玛丽。
■They assured him that the culprit would come back again indeed.
他们也劝他相信，那个罪犯一定会回来的。
■They surprised the culprit into telling the truth.
他们用出其不意的办法使罪犯吐露实情。
■He confessed the name of the chief culprit.
他供出了主犯的名字。
■If he happened to find a man having a spell the culprit was immediately discharged.
他如果发现某人有偷懒的嫌疑就会立即把那个人开除掉。
■This greening of desert coastlines, he said, could add millions of acres of productive farmland and sequester vast quantities of carbon dioxide, the primary culprit in global warming.
他指出，这种沙漠海岸线绿化，可以增加数百万英亩多产肥沃的农地，同时排除大量二氧化碳，这也是造成全球暖化的元凶。
■But the main culprit is a system of politics in which a ruling class has hogged most of the cake for itself.
但是罪魁祸首在于它的政治体制，统治阶级攫取了大部分利益。
■Are you the culprit who broke this window?
你就是打碎窗子的坏人吗?
■Although the new study doesn't rule out a watery creation of the bright streaks, Pelletier and McEwen said a bone-dry avalanche of dust and rocks is the most likely culprit.
佩尔蒂埃和麦克尤恩称，尽管这项研究并不排除明亮的条痕是由水流造成的，但是极为干燥的尘埃和岩石顺坡而下最有可能是造成条痕的原因。
■Insurers are another big culprit in racking up unnecessary expenses.
保险公司是导致不必要开支的另外一个因素。
■If too much body fat is the culprit, not our general weight, why don't we just face the truth?
假如身体脂肪太多是罪，不是普通的重量，为什么我们不面对事实呢？
■There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child.
像罪犯般认罪与像儿子般认罪两者之间有天渊之别。
■Hearing problems like 1)tinnitus, once 2)encountered mostly in old age, are now affecting people in their teens and twenties, and 3)audiologists have identified the 4)culprit: earphones.
像耳鸣这类以往老年才会遇到的听力问题，现在十几、二十岁的人就碰上了，而听力专家已经找出元凶：耳机。
■Hearing problems like1) tinnitus, once2) encountered mostly in old age, are now affecting people in their teens and twenties, and3) audiologists have identified the4) culprit: earphones.
像耳鸣这类以往老年才会遇到的听力问题，现在十几、十岁的人就碰上了，而听力专家已经找出元凶：耳机。
■Neil McClelland, a spokesman for Kleinmann in Britain, said the signs so far were that the culprit was the anti-corrosion liquid inside the propellant can.
克莱恩曼公司在英国的发言人NeilMcClelland说，到目前为止已有迹象表明，气溶胶推进剂罐内的防腐液是问题根源所在。
■Klemetsen rolled down his window, closed in on the antlered culprit, and grabbed it.
克莱曼森拉下车窗，拦截这个长角的罪犯，一把抓住了牠。
■Scientists have theorized for decades that a viral pathogen was the source of the disease, but until now, no one had been able to identify the likely culprit.
几十年前，科学家们就推测前胃扩张症的病源是一种病毒病原体，一直以来，还没有人能够确定可能导致这种疾病的元凶。
■Week after week, the 3 to 4-foot sharks kept vanishing. So one night, someone stayed up so see who the culprit was.
几周后，3到4英尺长的鲨鱼不断消失。所以在一天晚上，有人一直观察罪犯到底是谁。
■In the several school stampedes that have taken place in the past couple of years, narrow staircases were seen as the direct culprit.
几年前，许多学校也发生了这样的踩踏事件，阶梯狭窄是罪魁祸首。
■New Electrocardiographic Criteria for Predicting The Culprit Artery in Inferior Myocardial Infarction.
判断急性下壁心肌梗死罪犯血管的心电学新标准。
■Blood flow replaced humors as the culprit in the 17th century, and this vascular hypothesis held sway, with few exceptions, until the 1980s.
到了17世纪，祸首从体液变成血液，而血管学说一直到1980年代都是主流。
■The first human inhabitants of North America may not have exterminated the mammoths. The culprit might have been a comet.
北美洲最早的人类可能不是灭绝猛犸象的凶手。真正的罪犯有可能是一颗彗星。
■Stress is the main culprit of a low-energy day.
压力是低活力的主要致因。
■Soap companies say the worry about triclosan takes the focus away from the real culprit: the abuse of antibiotics and the need for better hygiene in general.
原文翻译为"...以及普遍的过度注重卫生"似乎不对,应该是"...需要更好的日常卫生习惯"?就是说人们对抗生素滥用,而且卫生习惯或设施不太好?
■The culprit under the preceding paragraphs shall also pay damages to the victim(s) suffering great loss(es) thereunder.
受害人因此遭受其他重大损失的，侵害人并应当赔偿损失。
■Others insist the culprit is a U.S. autoworker who lost his job to Japan in the 80s.
另外的人坚持，被控犯罪的人是80年代因日本(车子销售)丢掉工作的美国汽车工人。
■Others posited that dark matter was the culprit: it might exert a gravitational or drag force.
另有些人则断定暗物质才是惹祸的元凶：它可能会对太空船施加重力或阻力。