Enquire

(v. i. & t.) See Inquire.

手打:丽塔

• And should we not enquire what sort of knowledge has the power of effecting such a change? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And next, shall we enquire whether the kindred science also concerns us? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Few of us can safely enquire into the things which nature hides, any more than we can dissect our own bodies. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• We go no farther; nor do we enquire into the cause of the satisfaction. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The same sort of difficulty is presented if we enquire how it is that certain flavours and odours give pleasure, and others displeasure. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He generally looks at these, but never thinks it worth while to enquire whether the workman had served a seven years apprenticeship. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And now let us enquire, what is the faculty in man which answers to imitation. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He appears to have enquired very carefully into this subject {See his scheme for the maintenance of the poor, in Burn's History of the Poor Laws. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He enquired from Edith who that gentleman was; and, rather to her surprise, she found, from the tone of his 'Indeed! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• When I enquired for them, the man to whom I spoke, uttered the word plague, and fell at my feet in convulsions; he also was infected. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Mrs. Welland enquired as she shook hands with her future son-in-law. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• We passed by a natural archway, leading to a second gallery, and enquired, if we could not enter there also. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• All now looked around and enquired for Ivanhoe, but he had vanished. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Pale as marble, clear and beaming as that, she heard my tale, and enquired concerning the spot where he had been deposited. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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