| 释义 |
probing, ppl. a.|ˈprəʊbɪŋ|
[f. probe v. + -ing2.]
That probes; piercing so as to try. Hence ˈprobingly adv., ˈprobingness.
1795Southey Joan of Arc iv. 265 Conscious of guilt The Monarch sate, nor could endure to face His bosom-probing frown. 1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. X. 320 There is often a tenderness yet a probingness in the pathos. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. vi. 1288 She feels The probing spear o' the huntsman. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xl, He could have no conception what that demand was to the hearer—how probingly it touched the hidden sensibility. 1909Daily Chron. 10 Aug. 7/2 He answered probing, keenly-put questions with dogged determination not to betray himself. 1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics v. 187 Contact devices..either require direct contact with the surface in making the measurements or are located in a probing craft on, or in the atmosphere of, the world under examination. 1962Daily Tel. 11 June 12/5 The probing talks between Russia and the United States on Berlin. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVI. 158 His reasoning is assessed by a series of predetermined probing questions that are administered with each situation. |