"smoking gun" in Chinese (Simplified)

• 铁证
• 明显证据

Definition

明确证明某人做了某事的证据，尤其用于犯罪或调查中。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Simplified))

“smoking gun”常用于法律、调查或新闻报道，表示决定性证据，不一定和真实武器有关，常是比喻用法。有时也可指其他领域的明确证据。不是指普通或不确定的证据。

Examples

The police finally found the smoking gun that solved the case.

警方终于找到了破案的**铁证**。

The email was the smoking gun in the investigation.

那封电子邮件是调查的**铁证**。

Without a smoking gun, they couldn’t prove he was guilty.

没有**铁证**，他们无法证明他有罪。

Investigators searched for a year before they found the smoking gun.

调查人员找了一年才找到**铁证**。

This document is the smoking gun we've been waiting for.

这份文件就是我们一直在等的**铁证**。

It’s hard to find a smoking gun in business scandals, but sometimes the proof shows up anyway.

在商业丑闻中很难找到**铁证**，但有时证据还是会出现。