Inquisition
[ɪŋkwɪ'zɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪnkwɪ'zɪʃən]
解释:
(noun.) a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals).
(noun.) a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy.
亚伦编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of inquiring; inquiry; search; examination; inspection; investigation.
(n.) Judicial inquiry; official examination; inquest.
(n.) The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry.
(n.) A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.
(v. t.) To make inquisistion concerning; to inquire into.
编辑:梅尔维尔
同义词及近义词：
n. Inquest, judicial inquiry.
黛博拉校对
解释:
n. an inquiring or searching for: investigation: judicial inquiry: a tribunal in the R.C. Church called also 'the Holy Office ' for the discovery repression and punishment of heresy unbelief and other offences against religion.—v.t. (Milt.) to investigate.—adjs. Inquisit′ional making inquiry: relating to the Inquisition: Inquis′itive searching into: apt to ask questions: curious.—adv. Inquis′itively.—ns. Inquis′itiveness; Inquis′itor one who inquires: an official inquirer: a member of the Court of Inquisition.—adj. Inquisitō′rial.—adv. Inquisitō′rially.—n. Inquis′itress an inquisitive woman.—adj. Inquisitū′rient (Milt.) inquisitorial.—Grand Inquisitor the chief in a Court of Inquisition.
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娱乐性解释：
To dream of an inquisition, bespeaks for you an endless round of trouble and great disappointment. If you are brought before an inquisition on a charge of wilfulness, you will be unable to defend yourself from malicious slander.
校对:迈拉
例句:
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Here even the Inquisition was restored. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In all countries, a severe inquisition into the circumstances of private persons has been carefully avoided. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Galileo, although he was ill, went to Rome, and was placed on trial before the Inquisition. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- He was the life of the ship, the bloody-minded son of the Inquisition! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Nothing is hidden from their inquisition, and their families mutely rule our city. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- It looked like a drawing of the Inquisition. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- It was this that brought him before the Inquisition and that branded him as a dangerous heretic, and it was this that placed him in the forefront of the world’s discoverers. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Rather than suffer the pains of the Inquisition he agreed, and made his solemn declaration. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Galileo’s teachings were pointed out as dangerous to the teachings of the Church, and the officers of the Inquisition began to consider how they might best deal with him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- They were paying for the Inquisition now, all right. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- The Inquisition did its work ruthlessly. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- It is a great pity the playful Inquisition is no more. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Whether he said this or not there can be no doubt but that the great astronomer knew the performance was a farce, and that the world did move in spite of all the Inquisition could declare. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- He does in wars, in racial and religious persecutions; he did in the Spain of the Inquisition; he does in the American lynching. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The idea of riding all day long over such ghastly inquisitions of torture is sickening. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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