inquiry是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 询问， 打听， 调查，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Excuse me, ma'am, but this is by no means my intention; I make no inquiry myself, and should be sorry to have any made by my friends.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The letter could of course be no other than anonymous, or the inquiry would not have been necessary.
-- Boldwood thought her beautiful, but wondered whether he was right in his thought, for it seemed impossible that this romance in the flesh, if so sweet as he imagined, could have been going on long without creating a commotion of delight among men, and provoking more inquiry than Bathsheba had done, even though that was not a little.
-- Her culpability lay in her making no attempt to control feeling by subtle and careful inquiry into consequences.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Which appeared to me to be an inquiry of unnecessary strength.
-- I could answer this inquiry with a better heart than I had been able to find for the other question, and I said I was quite willing.
-- Now, you are distinctly to understand that you are most positively prohibited from making any inquiry on this head, or any allusion or reference, however distant, to any individual whomsoever as the individual, in all the communications you may have with me.
-- This unexpected inquiry put me into such a difficulty that I began saying in the absurdest way that if there had been any such person I had no doubt she would have been quite well and would have been very much obliged and would have sent her compliments, when the nurse came to my rescue.
-- Muttering that I would make the inquiry whether I had time to walk with him, I went into the office, and ascertained from the clerk with the nicest precision and much to the trying of his temper, the earliest moment at which the coach could be expected,--which I knew beforehand, quite as well as he.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had the curiosity to inquire in a particular manner, by what methods great numbers had procured to themselves high titles of honour, and prodigious estates; and I confined my inquiry to a very modern period: however, without grat-ing upon present times, because I would be sure to give no offence even to foreigners (for I hope the reader need not be told, that I do not in the least intend my own country, in what I say upon this occasion,) a great number of persons concerned were called up; and, upon a very slight examina-tion, discovered such a scene of infamy, that I cannot reflect upon it without some seriousness.
-- Upon inquiry I was told, 'that their names were to be found on no record, except a few of them, whom history has represented as the vilest of rogues and traitors.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What do you say;' Mr. Bounderby, with his hat in his hand, gave a beat upon the crown at every little division of his sentences, as if it were a tambourine; 'to his being seen night after night watching the Bank? to his lurking about there after dark? To its striking Mrs. Sparsit that he could be lurking for no good To her calling Bitzer's attention to him, and their both taking notice of him And to its appearing on inquiry to-day that he was also noticed by the neighbours?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I will advance still farther on the road of inquiry and deduction, and I dare venture to say that this human sample or specimen belongs to the Japhetic family, which spread over the world from India to the uttermost limits of western Europe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For Mr Tite Barnacle, Mr Arthur Clennam made his fifth inquiry one day at the Circumlocution Office; having on previous occasions awaited that gentleman successively in a hall, a glass case, a waiting room, and a fire-proof passage where the Department seemed to keep its wind.
-- 'Allow me to observe that I have been for some years in China, am quite a stranger at home, and have no personal motive or interest in the inquiry I am about to make.'
-- The effect of that upon Arthur Clennam was to make him repeat his inquiry in exactly the same words and tone as before.
-- After some days of inquiry and research, Arthur Clennam became convinced that the case of the Father of the Marshalsea was indeed a hopeless one, and sorrowfully resigned the idea of helping him to freedom again.
-- He had no hopeful inquiry to make at present, concerning Little Dorrit either; but he argued with himself that it might for anything he knew it might be serviceable to the poor child, if he renewed this acquaintance.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Crosspatch, draw the latch, Sit by the fire and spin, squalled Polly, bending down from his perch on the back of her chair to peep into Jo's face, with such a comical air of impertinent inquiry that it was impossible to help laugh-ing.
-- Then his eyes would turn to Jo so wistfully that she would have surely answered the mute inquiry if she had seen it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On one side hung a very large oilpainting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose.
-- "It is not my intention, were it in my power, to enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families.
-- But still another inquiry remains; one often agitated by the more recondite Nantucketers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy who addressed this inquiry to the young wayfarer, was about his own age: but one of the queerest looking boys that Oliver had even seen.
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