解释
- n. 调查；宗教法庭；审讯
※ 提供单词"Inquisition"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
inquisition 盘问，责难
来自inquire,查询，询问，-s,过去分词后缀。引申词义盘问，责难。
英文词源
- inquisition (n.)
- late 14c., "judicial investigation, act or process of inquiring," from Old French inquisicion "inquiry, investigation" (12c.), from Latin inquisitionem (nominative inquisitio) "a searching into, legal examination," noun of action from past participle stem of inquirere (see inquire).
In Church history, inquisitors were appointed from 382 C.E. to root out heretics, and the Inquisition refers to the ecclesiastical court (Congregation of the Holy Office) appointed 13c. by Innocent III to suppress heresy. It never operated in Britain. The capital letter form appeared in English only after c. 1500, and usually refers to the office's reorganization 1478-1483 in Spain as what is commonly called the Spanish Inquisition.
例句和用法
- 1. The Spanish Inquisition charged him with sinning against God and man.
- 西班牙宗教法庭指控他亵渎上帝和人类。
- 2. What is this? The Spanish Inquisition?
- 这是怎么回事？严刑逼供吗？
- 3. The police subjected him to an inquisition that lasted two hours.
- 警察对他进行了持续两小时的盘问.
- 4. In the Middle Ages there was the Inquisition.
- 在中世纪里,发生过宗教迫害.
- 5. The Inquisition had tortured rich and poor alike.
- 宗教法庭对西面里人不分贫富,统统严刑拷打.
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