| 释义 |
inquiration dial.|ɪnkwaɪəˈreɪʃən|
[f. inquire v. + -ation.]
Inquiry.
1789C. Smith Ethelinde III. 136 If so be you would acquaint me where I may make enquiration after your frinds or hern, it would come to the same thing. 1839C. Clark John Noakes v, If they their inquirations make In winter time, some will Condemn that place as no great shakes. 1850Dickens Dav. Copp. li. 516 A decent woman as spoke to her about..making secret inquiration concerning of me and all at home. 1886Hardy Mayor Casterbr. II. xiv. 196 ‘Suppose we make inquiration into it, Christopher,’ continued Longways; ‘and if we find there's really anything in it, drop a letter to them most concerned.’ |