The BDD, a German detective Association, says members work to high legal standards and dismisses the idea that private investigators are Stasi throwbacks.

They do that so they can get a shock from everyone. Actually, in the West, most media outlets also hire private investigators to get exclusive news. This has also been viewed as hurting the people's privacy.

小高：其实在西方，大多数媒体也会雇佣私家侦探打听独家消息，这也被认为损害了公民的隐私权。

Private investigators can buy troves of personal data to obtain information on companies or individuals.

私人调查者可以购买大量个人数据，以掌握和公司或个人有关的信息。

But perhaps they don't have to turn themselves into private investigators or Congressional subcommittees.

但或许他们不必把自己变成私家侦探或者国会小组委员会。

Last year, Uber, the taxi app group, apologised after one of its top male executives said he might hire private investigators to dig into the private life of a female blogger who was critical of the company.

去年优步（Uber）一位男性高管说他可能会雇佣私家侦探，深挖一位女博主的私人生活，这位女博主曾批评过该公司，随后这家打车应用公司为此事做出道歉。

His detention shocked multinationals and financial groups – and their lawyers and private investigators – who had to ask themselves if China was tightening its vague rules on private investigations.

他的被捕震惊了跨国公司和金融集团以及它们的律师和私人调查员他们不得不自问：中国是否在收紧针对私人调查的模糊规则？

Well, do they have pro bono private investigators?

你们有公共的私人调查员吗？

Britain's police and security services are said to be 'very interested' in the device and store detectives and private investigators have placed orders to use it in undercover work, say the company.

该公司称：英国警方以及安全部门对这个设备“十分有兴趣”，一些商店侦探和私家侦探已经下单订购该设备，用于卧底工作。

Foreign luxury goods companies all have extensive anti-counterfeiting programmes in place in China and use private investigators and lawyers who work with local authorities to combat the manufacture, sale and export of fake products, but many prefer to keep such policing operations quiet.

外国奢侈品公司在中国都制订了详尽的反假冒计划，同时利用私人调查员和律师，与地方机构合作打击假货的制造、销售和出口，但许多人更倾向于低调开展这些行动。

H-P and private investigators found no violation of the sexual harassment policy at the company.

惠普和私人调查人员都没有发现赫德违反公司的性骚扰政策。

Those with money sometimes hire private investigators to ensure that a prospective spouse does not have any ill intentions or has not already fallen in love then broken off that relationship in favor of an approved match.

有钱人有时会雇佣私人侦探去调查未来的配偶是否存在不良企图，或者之前是否有过恋爱史，分手后才选择父母包办的婚姻。

The new morality tale becomes further muddled when you consider that San Francisco, praised for its penurious water ways, gets its life-supporting liquid from the Hetch Hetchy dam, in Yosemite.

在用水方面以小气著称的旧金山，生活用水依靠约塞米蒂的赫奇-赫奇水坝，这就让眼下这则道义故事的情节愈发错综复杂起来。

Parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses; lived in a most penurious manner& denying himself every indulgence.

少数慷慨的推动缓解了吝啬、节俭；以最节俭的方式生活&不让自己有任何放纵的行为。

He lived in the most penurious manner, and denied himself every indulgence

他以最简朴的方式生活着，抵制一切奢侈

Different from building a single tunnel, building interchange tunnels will encounter many Problems that does not exit during building a single runnel. Furthermore, the underground interchange tunnels is at its early stage, so corresponding design and construction experiences are seriously penurious.

与修建单一的隧道不同，要在地下修建多条互通立交的高速公路隧道，将会遇到各种单一隧道中不存在的问题，而且目前这方面的设计、施工均没有直接的经验，难度将会大大增加。

Things have come full circle since penurious sailors from the Far East first arrived two centuries ago.

两个世纪前，来自远东的贫穷水手初来乍到；

Financial innovation ( and downright chicanery) recycled the huge surpluses of the rising world to penurious homebuyers in Middle America and dodgy speculators on the Costa del Sol.

通过金融创新（以及彻头彻尾的欺骗），新兴世界的巨额盈余回流到手头拮据的美国中产阶层购房者和西班牙阳光海岸有问题的投机者。

There are a lot of influence factors for our rural credit. Including the legal system of rural credit is not perfect, the organizational system has loopholes, the products is unreasonable, lacking of innovation, the rural insurance is penurious.

导致我国农业信贷出现问题的影响因素很多，主要有我国农村信贷的法律法规体系不健全，农村信贷组织体系存在漏洞，信贷产品不合理创新不足，农业保险缺位，担保体系不健全等。

Raised on a hog farm in Hunan Province, she laughs off the penurious ways of her parents and grandparents.

李小姐在湖南省的一家养猪场长大，她嘲笑祖父母及父母吝啬的生活方式。

The company had to operate penuriously in order to survive the economic downturn.

公司不得不勒紧裤腰带，过着节衣缩食的生活才能在经济低迷时期生存下来。

He lived penuriously, always scraping by with the bare minimum.

他过着贫困的生活，总是艰难度日。