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inquire

/in-kwahyuhr/US // ɪnˈkwaɪər //UK // (ɪnˈkwaɪə) //

查询,询问,问询,问讯

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·quired, in·quir·ing.

    • : to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.
    • : to make investigation: to inquire into the incident.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·quired, in·quir·ing.

    • : to seek to learn by asking: to inquire a person's name.
    • : Obsolete. to seek.
    • : Obsolete. to question.
  1. 1
    • : inquire after, to ask about the state of health or condition of: Friends have been calling all morning to inquire after you.

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Examples

  • The letter inquired about the agency’s authority to investigate whether these tools discriminate, particularly against those with disabilities.

  • After Voice of San Diego inquired, MTS announced it would seek an independent review of its body camera policies.

  • They all looked at me with inquiring eyes, offended because I was “biting the hand that fed me.”

  • That turned into groups I hadn’t worked with previously inquiring about online campaigns, and by April and May, I actually had more demand than I did pre-Covid.

  • Medical professionals too have inquired about influencer marketing strategy, she said.

  • I do not believe we have a current count of fugitives for publication, but will inquire.

  • Everyone, of course, was too polite to inquire about the embarrassing number of absentees.

  • I inquire if I may touch it and find the texture soft and creamy.

  • Their silence leaves conventional physicians to fend for themselves when patients inquire about it.

  • The court will not “inquire into the validity of a religious tenet.”

  • I need not inquire whether his dismal behaviour was natural or assumed.

  • Elmer Spiker interrupted to inquire whether the turtles I had seen were "black-legs, red-legs, or yaller-legs."

  • "I am going to New York," he said, not giving me time to inquire into his strange proceeding.

  • In continuation of this topic, may I inquire when and where the two following bishops, deprived in 1690, died?

  • And I shall send my emissaries into the district of Montelimar to inquire into these disturbances you tell of.