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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed hopeless to pursue the inquiry any farther, but it was clear that in spite of Holmes's ruse we had no proof that Barrymore had not been in London all the time.
-- The fellow had evident-ly made inquiry and found that only two lives intervened between him and a valuable estate.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same that he had seen in the crowd that morning at the station, the same that he had surprised in Rogojin's rooms some hours later, when the latter had replied to his inquiry with a sneer-ing laugh, 'Well, whose eyes were they?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You will diminish them, indeed,' returned the arch girl; 'for never did I hear a more unworthy conjunction of execu-tion and language than that to which I have been listening; and I was far gone in a learned inquiry into the causes of such an unfitness between sound and sense, when you broke the charm of my musings by that bass of yours, Duncan!'
-- Thence he went to the side of the motherly animal, and spending a minute in a fruitless inquiry into the character of her rider, he shook his head and returned to Heyward.
-- Every effort, however, to detect the least evidence of the approach of their hidden enemies was as fruitless as the inquiry after his late companions.
-- Abandoning a species of inquiry that proved so fruitless, he retraced his steps to the council-lodge, re-solved to seek and question David, in order to put an end to his doubts.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An inquiry was set on foot, and after diligent investigation they came upon his traces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This inquiry involved the respected lady in rather a delicate position, for she certainly had been an active party in making her daughter Mrs Quilp, and, besides, it was not supporting the family credit to encourage the idea that she had married a man whom nobody else would have.
-- But a few whispered words from her daughter, and a kind inquiry from her son-in-law whether she felt faint, with a hint that there was abundance of cold water in the next apartment, routed these symptoms effectually, and she applied herself to the prescribed preparations with sullen diligence.
-- Before Mr Brass had repeated his inquiry many times, Mr Quilp, also embellished with a night-cap, emerged from the same door and looked carefully up and down the street, and up at all the windows of the house, from the opposite side.
-- Having only received from Frederick Trent, late on the previous night, information of the old man's illness, he had come upon a visit of condolence and inquiry to Nell, prepared with the first instalment of that long train of fascinations which was to fire her heart at last.
-- To this, Kit's mother replied, that certainly it was quite true, and quite right, and quite proper, and Heaven forbid that she should shrink, or have cause to shrink, from any inquiry into her character or that of her son, who was a very good son though she was his mother, in which respect, she was bold to say, he took after his father, who was not only a good son to his mother, but the best of husbands and the best of fathers besides, which Kit could and would corroborate she knew, and so would little Jacob and the baby likewise if they were old enough, which unfortunately they were not, though as they didn't know what a loss they had had, perhaps it was a great deal better that they should be as young as they were; and so Kit's mother wound up a long story by wiping her eyes with her apron, and patting little Jacob's head, who was rocking the cradle and staring with all his might at the strange lady and gentleman.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Otherwise there will begin an inquiry which will have no end.
-- On the general's inquiry as to what he had done since he saw him in the morning, Nekhludoff answered that he had been at the postoffice, that he had found out the facts concerning the pardoning of the person they were talking of in the morning, and he asked permission to visit her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hardly believe it myself..... And yet..."His eye fell with a mute inquiry upon the withered white flowers upon the little table.
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