| 单词 | ask |
| 释义 | ask I. transitive verb 1. a. < he asked him about his trip > b. < the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts — Scott Fitzgerald > c. < he never asks foolish questions > 2. a. < they asked him to be quiet > b. < she asked help from her teacher > < he asked advice of several friends > 3. < it asks some strenuous agility to keep them both in the mind together — Donald Davie > 4. archaic < the day when I shall ask the banns — Shakespeare > 5. < the dealer asked $2000 for the car > 6. < we asked him to come to lunch > intransitive verb 1. < he asked about your job > < he asked for the owner > < he asked after the old man's health > 2. < they asked for food and lodging > 3. < if you do that you're just asking for trouble > — often used with following phrase for it < the Nazis and the Fascists have asked for it and they are going to get it — F.D.Roosevelt > Synonyms: < where lies the land to which your ship must go … yet still I ask, what haven is her mark? — William Wordsworth > < an increasing number were asking many things from philosophy — H.O.Taylor > inquire in this sense is likely to indicate an honest request for information, a question asked solely to lead to enlightening the questioner on the matter ostensibly under primary consideration < my literary conscience … inquires if ideas were really free at Oxford — Ellen Glasgow > query indicates asking for an answer which clarifies, substantiates, removes doubt from the questioner's mind < the anthropologist, on the other hand, might query the statement — J.F.Embree > question heightens the implication that the questioner finds an assertion or notion doubtful, unconvincing, and perhaps incorrect < Newsweek's incoming mail sacks bulge. Some letters query, others question facts — Newsweek > < even today questioning a statement made by a person is often taken by him as a reflection upon his integrity, and is resented — John Dewey > To question a person is to keep asking him searching questions < question the committee about the deficit > interrogate may suggest systematic and thorough questions; it implies, however, a simple search for facts and indicates nothing about the attitude of the questioner < he had landed on the Arno and interrogated the natives with the help of an interpreter — John Dos Passos > examine, in reference to things, is a synonym for inspect rather than for question; in reference to persons, it may suggest either detailed questions intended to discover the correctness of a person's conduct or beliefs or the scope of his knowledge or abilities, the examiner often having knowledge of the correct or preferred answers < where he had himself examined for three days by the learned and the wise king of Naples — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > quiz suggests the asking of a series of questions by one knowing the answers in order to test another's knowledge; it may suggest a lighter, more casual, less significant procedure than examine < quizzed by feature writers in magazines — G.A.Miller > catechize, which often pertains to matters religious, may suggest systemic, rapid questioning, often calling for answers by rote, to verify accuracy, correctness, or orthodoxy of another's notions, and to trip him up if possible < the awkward situation in which you found yourself on receiving a visit from an authoress whose works though presented to you … you had never read … I hope she catechized you well — William Cowper > Synonyms: < ask the cooperation of all concerned > < what more can be asked of books than that they provoke laughter, more reading, discussion, a pilgrimage — D.S.Davis > request implies more formality, greater display of courtesy, and anticipation of affirmative response < request the cooperation of neighboring towns in the control of Dutch elm disease > < request a meeting to discuss common problems and the possibility of mutual help > < requesting that Italy be given the trusteeship of that territory — Collier's Year Book > < 16 nations requesting aid under the European Recovery Program — Current Biography > solicit, in modern use and in this connection, commonly means no more than calling attention to one's wants or desires < solicit trade or patronage by advertisement > < solicit funds for flood relief > < our interest is solicited by the characters themselves rather than by anything that they do — A.J.Ayer > II. dialect Britain |
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