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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Please, ma'am, could I inquire if this highly instructive and charming institution is a new one?'
-- 'But may I inquire how you intend to support the establishment?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver, So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towards the north with the darkness towards the south wherever in your wisdom you may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire the price, and don't be too particular.
-- However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no mistaking.
-- We must needs inquire then on what principle the Sovereign is originally invested with that right.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some few stopped to gaze at Oliver for a moment or two, or turned round to stare at him as they hurried by; but none relieved him, or troubled themselves to inquire how he came there.
-- Permit me to inquire the name of the magistrate who offers a gratuitous and unprovoked insult to a respectable person, under the protection of the bench.'
-- Either the master or the manner of this remark, which was made very ruefully, delighted Charley Bates so much, that his consequent shout of laughter roused the Jew from his reverie, and induced him to inquire what was the matter.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was then, he said, on his way to Longbourn on purpose to inquire after her.
-- After breakfast, the girls walked to Meryton to inquire if Mr. Wickham were returned, and to lament over his ab- sence from the Netherfield ball.
-- At length, however, his civility was so far awakened as to inquire of Elizabeth after the health of her family.
-- While settling this point, she was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little flut-tered by the idea of its being Colonel Fitzwilliam himself, who had once before called late in the evening, and might now come to inquire particularly after her.
-- She longed to inquire of the housekeeper whether her master was really absent, but had not the courage for it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When these thoughts were over, my head was for some time taken up in considering the nature of these wretched creatures, I mean the savages, and how it came to pass in the world that the wise Governor of all things should give up any of His creatures to such inhumanity - nay, to some-thing so much below even brutality itself - as to devour its own kind: but as this ended in some (at that time) fruit-less speculations, it occurred to me to inquire what part of the world these wretches lived in?
-- I then began to enter into a little conversation with my two new subjects; and, first, I set Friday to inquire of his father what he thought of the escape of the savages in that canoe, and whether we might expect a return of them, with a power too great for us to resist.
-- It now remained that the captain and I should inquire into one another's circumstances.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know why you inquire about him, very well; your sister is to marry him.
-- Mrs. Dashwood, whose terror as they drew near the house had produced almost the conviction of Marianne's being no more, had no voice to inquire after her, no voice even for Elinor; but SHE, waiting neither for salutation nor inquiry, instantly gave the joyful relief; and her mother, catching it with all her usual warmth, was in a moment as much overcome by her happiness, as she had been before by her fears.
-- "I meant," said Elinor, taking up some work from the table, "to inquire for Mrs. EDWARD Ferrars."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You might go around to the side and inquire upstairs.
-- "This store closes at one on Saturdays," was a pleasing and satisfactory legend to see upon doors which she felt she ought to enter and inquire for work.
-- All you had to do was to inquire of some one about the theatre for the manager and ask for a position.
-- She did manage to inquire at the box-office, however.
-- She felt as if she ought to continue and inquire elsewhere, but the results so far were too dispiriting.
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