单词：inquisition
音标：[.inkwi'ziʃәn] ；
n. 调查, 探究, 审理, 宗教裁判所
[医] 调查, 审查
[医] 调查, 审查
n. a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy
n. a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)
n. a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)
词型变化：名词复数形式 : inquisitions
词性分布：
inquisition的用法和样例：
例句
用作名词(n.)
- The police are following several lines of inquisition.警方正沿几条线索进行调查。
- I was subjected to a lengthy inquisition into the state of my bank balance.有关方面就我的银行存款余额对我进行了详细的调查。
- I was subjected to a lengthy inquisition by the tax inspector.我受到税务稽查员长时间的查问。
- The Inquisition of the Medieval Ages devised many demoniac means of torture.中世纪的宗教法庭创造了许多骇人听闻的酷刑。
- There was no longer any question about the doom the Inquisition had prepared for me.对宗教法庭给我安排好的归宿已经不再有任何疑问了。
经典引文
An interview which she described as 'a 1 1 / 2 hour inquisition'.
出自：K. Williams