Investigate
[ɪn'vestɪgeɪt] or [ɪn'vɛstɪɡet]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) conduct an inquiry or investigation of; 'The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities'; 'inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady'.
(verb.) investigate scientifically; 'Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese'.
整理:玛丽--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To follow up step by step by patient inquiry or observation; to trace or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.
(v. i.) To pursue a course of investigation and study; to make investigation.
克莱尔手打
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Examine, scrutinize, canvass, study, sift, consider, overhaul, explore, probe, dissect, look into, search out, search into, inquire into, follow up.
安德鲁手打
同義詞及反義詞：
[See EXAMINE]
格雷戈里錄入
解釋/意思:
v.t. to search into: to inquire into with care and accuracy.—adj. Invest′igable able to be investigated.—n. Investigā′tion act of examining into: research: study.—adjs. Invest′igātive Invest′igātory promoting or given to investigation.—n. Invest′igātor one who investigates.
欧文整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Shortly after he had moved to London he had been asked to investigate astringent plants in connection with tanning. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It was well he did so; for Mr. Legree, having refitted Tom's handcuffs, proceeded deliberately to investigate the contents of his pockets. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- After much discussion they appointed a committee to call on Sir Humphrey Davy and ask him to investigate the possibilities for them. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The science which pretends to investigate and explain those connecting principles, is what is properly called Moral Philosophy. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- About noon we espied far to our right what was evidently an incubator, and Lorquas Ptomel directed Tars Tarkas to investigate it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- He went down to Drexel, Morgan & Company's office to investigate, and, after looking around, asked when the office was cleaned out. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I decided to investigate, but first I lifted my head to fill my lungs with the pure, invigorating night air of the mountains. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- One of Plato's associates, working under his direct ion, investigated the curves produced by cutting cones of different kinds in a certain plane. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He had investigated all the crushing-machines on the market, and tried all he could get. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This case of yours, Mr. Phelps, is certainly one of the darkest which I have ever investigated. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- They are facts to be investigated. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This Goebel claim was then investigated by the leading counsel for the defence, Mr. Curtis. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- For months he investigated and experimented, and at length, in 1815, he constructed what he called the safety-lamp. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It is the supposed murder of Colonel Barclay, of the Royal Munsters, at Aldershot, which I am investigating. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Mr. Pickwick, who had been deeply investigating the interior of the pigeon-pie, readily assented. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It is the murder that we are really investigating, and I tell you that I am gathering all the threads into my hands. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We are investigating this unhappy business, Bannister, said his master. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Men who heard of a machine that would cut one hundred and seventy-five acres of wheat in less than eight days--as happened in one case--naturally decided that it was worth investigating. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- At this time he was investigating everything with a microscope, and one day in the early part of 1880 he noticed upon a table in the laboratory an ordinary palm-leaf fan. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- With an absent air, she was investigating that button on her husband's coat, when Pa came in to spend the evening. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- If one investigates the source of any sound, he will always find that it is due to motion of some kind. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
錄入:特丽萨