The Coroners Service of British Columbia, responsible for the investigation1 of all sudden deaths, together with the RCMP , concluded their on-scene investigations2 on the luge track, where Georgian athlete, Nodar Kumaritashvili, died in the morning of the opening day of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.
专门负责调查各类猝死事件的不列颠哥伦比亚省法医服务处和加拿大皇家骑警队结束了对无舵雪橇赛道的现场调查。在温哥华冬奥会开幕的早晨,格鲁吉亚运动员诺达尔库玛丽塔什维利在那里意料之外死亡。
在上面的报道中,on-scene investigation就是现场调查。On-scene的意思是现场的,比如:an on-scene report(现场报道);live on-scene TV coverage3(电视现场实况报道)。
表示现场大家还可以用on-the-spot、on-site和live等词语来表示。比如:on-the-spot report(现场报道),on-site inspection(实地核查,现场核查)。Live主要指现场直播,实况转播,比如:The football game was televised live.(足球比赛在电视上直播。)