inquire是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 询问， 打听； 调查； 查问，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then made bold to inquire what busi-ness brought him there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be worse than useless now to inquire which; worse than useless to seek to know wheth-er he has been for years overlooked, or always designedly held prisoner.
-- 'Gentlemen,' said I, 'pardon me; but I usually inquire who does me the honour to seek my assistance, and what is the nature of the case to which I am summoned.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Anna returned with the album, he was already gone, and Stepan Arkadyevitch was telling them that he had called to inquire about the dinner they were giving next day to a celebrity who had just arrived.
-- There was nothing either exceptional or strange in a man's calling at half-past nine on a friend to inquire details of a proposed dinner party and not coming in, but it seemed strange to all of them.
-- And at dinner they inquire who lives at the top in that house.
-- He demanded the appointment of another special commission to inquire into the question of the Native Tribes Organization Committee.
-- He got up to go to his writing table, and Laska, lying at his feet, got up too, stretching and looking at him as though to inquire where to go.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sondelius answered, in a profane and blotty scrawl, that he remembered with joy their Minneapolis vacation, that he disagreed with Entwisle of Harvard about the nature of metathrombin, that there was an excellent Italian restaurant in Boston, and that he would inquire among his health-official friends as to a position.
-- Inchcape Jones vomited feeble proclamations of the inadvisability of too- large public gatherings, and wrote to London to inquire about Haffkine's prophylactic, but to Sir Robert Fairlamb he protested, "Honestly, there's only been a few deaths and I think it's all passed over.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't inquire about me.
-- 'Allow me to inquire whether she is at home芒聙娄.
-- He was very uneasy and sent to inquire after her; he soon learnt that her illness was not dangerous.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The carrier looked at me, as if to inquire if she were coming back.
-- My sister shewrote to me the name of this here place, and wrote to me as if everI chanced to come to Gravesen', I was to come over and inquire forMas'r Davy, and give her dooty, humbly wishing him well, andreporting of the fam'ly as they was on-common toe-be-sure.
-- The only circumstance which gave me anynew hope, was my aunt's stopping on the stairs to inquire about asmell of fire that was prevalent there; and Janet's replying that shehad been making tinder down in the kitchen, of my old shirt.
-- Neither did I like to say, that I hoped he had not beentoo communicative to Uriah, or to inquire if they had talked muchabout me.
-- With the bag slung over her arm, and 314rattling as she waddled away, she waddled to the door; where shestopped to inquire if she should leave us a lock of her hair.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How much his business engrosses him already is very plain from the circumstance of his forgetting to inquire for the book you recommended.
-- 'I wish we could contrive it,' said she; 'but I cannot think of any tolerable pretence for going in; no servant that I want to inquire about of his housekeeper no message from my father.'
-- The plan of a drain, the change of a fence, the felling of a tree, and the destination of every acre for wheat, turnips, or spring corn, was entered into with as much equality of interest by John, as his cooler manners rendered possible; and if his willing brother ever left him any thing to inquire about, his inquiries even approached a tone of eagerness.
-- Mr. Elton looked as if he did not very well know what answer to make; which was exactly the case; for though very much gratified by the kind care of such a fair lady, and not liking to resist any advice of her's, he had not really the least inclination to give up the visit; but Emma, too ea-ger and busy in her own previous conceptions and views to hear him impartially, or see him with clear vision, was very well satisfied with his muttering acknowledgment of its be-ing 'very cold, certainly very cold,' and walked on, rejoicing in having extricated him from Randalls, and secured him the power of sending to inquire after Harriet every hour of the evening.
-- So began Miss Bates; and Mr. Knightley seemed de-termined to be heard in his turn, for most resolutely and commandingly did he say, 'How is your niece, Miss Bates? I want to inquire after you all, but particularly your niece.
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