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词汇 inquisition
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inquisition

noun
/ˌɪŋkwɪˈzɪʃn/
/ˌɪnkwɪˈzɪʃn/
  1. the Inquisition
    [singular] the organization set up by the Roman Catholic Church to punish people who opposed its beliefs, especially from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century(尤指 15 到 17 世纪天主教的)宗教裁判所,异端裁判所
  2. [countable] (formal or humorous) a series of questions that somebody asks you, especially when they ask them in an unpleasant way一连串的提问;(尤指)盘问,责难
    • She then subjected me to an inquisition about my romantic life.然后她对我的浪漫生活进行了调查。
  3. see also Spanish Inquisition
    词源late Middle English (denoting a searching examination): via Old French from Latin inquisitio(n-) ‘examination’, from the verb inquirere (based on quaerere ‘seek’).
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