英语词汇private eye的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	private eye
词源	private eye. Mystery writer Raymond Chandler popularized this term, for “a private investigator,” but it has its origins in the “We Never Sleep” motto of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, which was printed over an open eye. See pinkerton.
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