inquiry
n. 調查,審查; 詢問,質問,質詢,追究; 探究; 打聽
An inquiry is a question which you ask in order to get some information.
He made some inquiries and discovered she had gone to the Continent...
他打聽了一番,發現她已經去了歐陸。
After a brief inquiry about the Christmas holiday, he returned to the subject of music.
簡短地問了一下聖誕假期之後,他又回到了音樂的話題上。
An inquiry is an official investigation.
This is the most difficult and shocking murder inquiry I have had to open in the last 25 years...
這是 25 年來我所展開的最困難、最令人震驚的謀殺調查。
The Democratic Party has called for an independent inquiry into the incident.
民主黨要求對事件展開獨立調查。
Inquiry is the process of asking about or investigating something in order to find out more about it.
The investigation has suddenly switched to a new line of inquiry.
調查突然轉向了一條新的線索。
If you say that someone is helping the police with their inquiries, you mean that the police are questioning them about a crime, but have not yet charged them with it.
Two men were helping police with their inquiries at Salisbury last night.
兩名男子昨天夜裡在索爾茲伯裡接受了警方盤問。
1. a search for knowledge;
2. an instance of questioning;
3. a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest
inquiry, investigation, research, survey
這些名詞均有"調查"之意。
Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.
許多家長迫切要求調查這個問題.
Counselors began an inquiry into industrial needs.
顧問們開始調查工業方面的需要.
These are questions that lie outside the purview of our inquiry.
這些都不是屬於我們調查範圍的問題.
As a result of the inquiry, two students have been sent down.
調查結果, 兩個學生被開除了.
The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.
調查的範圍已經縮小到只剩5個人了.