smoking gun 确凿的证据
- Finally, despite decades of research, investigations of dopamine have yet to uncover a smoking gun.
最后一点,就算经过几十年针对多巴胺的研究,还是没有找出真正的罪魁祸首。 - It has proved hard to find a smoking gun—a prediction that, when tested, would decisively tell us whether or not the world is made of strings.
我们想验证是否如弦论预言的,这个世界由弦构成,但我们证实的却是,想获得这样确切有力的证据是极为困难的。 - However, although the corruption investigations have unearthed enough evidence to press charges, they failed to find enough of a "smoking gun" to wreck Mr Thaksin's reputation irreparably.
然而,尽管对腐败的调查挖掘了足够进行指控的证据,他们仍不能找到足够摧毁他信威信的猛料。
smoking gun[ noun ]
indisputable evidence (especially of a crime)
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