The spelling enquiry is also used. Inquiry is sometimes pronounced 'ɪŋkwɪri/ in American English. 也拼写作 enquiry。inquiry 在美国英语里有时读作 /'ɪŋkwɪri/。
1 N-COUNT 询问;查询;打听 An
inquiry is a question which you ask in order to get some information.
询问;查询;打听 -
He made some inquiries and discovered she had gone to the Continent.
他打听了一番,发现她已经去了欧陆。
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After a brief inquiry about the Christmas holiday, he returned to the subject of music.
简短地问了一下圣诞假期之后,他又回到了音乐的话题上。
2 N-COUNT (官方的)调查,查问 An
inquiry is an official investigation.
(官方的)调查,查问 -
This is the most difficult and shocking murder inquiry I have had to open in the last 25 years.
这是 25 年来我所展开的最困难、最令人震惊的谋杀调查。
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The Democratic Party has called for an independent inquiry into the incident. [+ into]
民主党要求对事件展开独立调查。
3 N-UNCOUNT 询问(或调查)过程 Inquiry is the process of asking about or investigating something in order to find out more about it.
询问(或调查)过程 4 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 协助警方调查 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.
协助警方调查 [British] Word Partnership | Use inquiry with: |
N. | board of inquiry, the outcome of an inquiry 2 |
VERB. | conduct an inquiry, hold an inquiry 2 |
ADJ. | scientific inquiry 3 |
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