"smoking gun" in Chinese (Traditional)

• 鐵證
• 明顯證據

Definition

明確證明某人做了某事的證據，尤其用於犯罪或調查中。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Traditional))

「smoking gun」主要用於法律、調查或新聞領域，指確鑿證據，通常是比喻用法，不一定與武器有關。有時也可以指其他事情中的明確證據，並非所有證據都可稱為“smoking gun”。

Examples

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

警方終於找到了破案的**鐵證**。

The email was the smoking gun in the investigation.

那封電子郵件是調查的**鐵證**。

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

沒有**鐵證**，他們無法證明他有罪。

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

調查人員找了一年才找到**鐵證**。

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

這份文件就是我們一直在等的**鐵證**。

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

在商業醜聞中很難找到**鐵證**，但有時證據還是會出現。