单词 | enquiry |
释义 | enquiryen‧qui‧ry /ɪnˈkwaɪəri $ ɪnˈkwaɪri, ˈɪŋkwəri/ noun (plural enquiries) Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto try and find out about an accident, crime etc► investigate Collocations to try to find out the truth about a crime, an accident, or a problem, especially by using careful and thorough methods: · Police are investigating an explosion at the city store.· We sent our reporter, Michael Gore, to investigate.· The commission will investigate the cause of the accident, focusing especially on safety issues. ► make inquiries/enquiries especially British to ask people questions about a person, crime, accident etc in order to find out information about it: · A reporter who tried to make inquiries was arrested.make inquiries/enquiries into/about: · Police are making inquiries into the theft of a quantity of explosives.· He had made a few inquiries and learnt that she inherited the money from her father. ► go into to try to find out the facts of a situation in order to explain why it happened: · "How did Blake manage to escape?" "That's something that we will have to go into."· The headteacher promised the parents that he would be going into the matter of bullying very thoroughly. ► probe to carefully and thoroughly try to find out all the facts about a situation, especially when someone wants to keep these a secret: · The Secretary of State is probing claims of election fraud.probe for: · Reporters began probing for more information.probe into: · The press have been criticised for probing too deeply into the actor's private life. ► look into if someone in an official position looks into a problem or bad situation, they try to find out more about it so that the situation can be improved: · The manager promised to look into my complaint.· Police are looking into the possibility that the bomb warning was a hoax.· Callahan hired me to look into the accident. ► solve if someone solves a crime or a mystery, they get all the information they need so that they can explain exactly what happened: · Detectives are trying to solve the murder of a young girl.· Officials hope the Navy will solve the mystery of four bombs that are missing from the wreckage of a military jet. ► be under investigation if a person, organization etc is under investigation, the police are trying to find out if they are involved in a crime or illegal activity: · A health club is currently under investigation by Boston detectives.· Several of the company's executives are under investigation. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► deal with an enquiry Phrases· Our staff will be able to deal with any enquiries. ► a flood/stream of inquiries· The special offer has produced a flood of inquiries from interested customers. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► additional· There may be other issues of importance to individual prospective investors, who must make additional enquiries as they see necessary.· However, the Protocol system does not encourage additional enquiries on detailed and pernickety points.· An opportunity will be made available for prospective investors to make additional enquiries.· Preliminary enquiries and additional enquiries Under the traditional system of conveyancing, the preliminary enquiry form remains in use. ► further· The Lord Advocate ordered further enquiries to be made.· In certain cases the value is left out, perhaps pending further enquiry.· The book will help you tell one bird from another and that will be the spur to further enquiry.· Jobbernole listened painfully to her remarks, but did not bother to make further enquiries.· Two major problems dominate further enquiry into today's fertility patterns and trends in Britain and the whole industrial world.· They were back in Nottingham again on 29 July, making further enquiries.· Nine other people have been bailed, pending further enquiries.· This mailing resulted in an immediate response by over 20 companies, and further enquiries on an on-going basis. ► general· The Reject Shop, for general information and enquiries, full branch addresses and transport details; tel: 071-736 7474. ► historical· In every other sphere of historical enquiry, new material is acknowledged.· Peter Roberts writing in 1981 put in a plea for more textbooks that deal with the processes of historical enquiry. ► official· The discourses of these enquiries overlapped, from popular newspapers through statistical surveys and scholarly works to official boards of enquiry. ► preliminary· The purchaser's solicitors will raise preliminary enquiries with the vendor's solicitors to obtain general information about the property.· The questions on both forms are broadly identical to those contained on the more traditional preliminary enquiry forms.· The preliminary enquiry of a seller as to what other persons occupy the property is one precaution.· This problem can usually be resolved by the standard preliminary enquiries.· Preliminary enquiries and additional enquiries Under the traditional system of conveyancing, the preliminary enquiry form remains in use.· Searches prior to completion and replies Obtain from the seller the preliminary search and enquiries of the local authority.· It is therefore important to keep stocks of the old stationery for dealing with preliminary enquiries in your office. ► public· The plan is due to go before a public enquiry next summer.· Public opinion on proposals for change is made known at public enquiries.· The third function, which belongs principally to ministerial and public enquiries, is advice.· An example would be an ad hoe public enquiry into a serious railway accident.· It can be controversial and I envisage that fixing zone boundaries would require a procedure of public enquiry etc.· Our image information is an under-used resource of enormous potential value for scientific research, public enquiries, and commercial development.· The Secretary of State is now likely to call in the application and subject it to a public enquiry.· We will introduce a fairer system for all school reorganisations, with independent public enquiries. ► scientific· Its accounts, however accurate at this level, remain stuck at this preliminary stage of scientific enquiry.· The actual work was related to scientific observation, enquiry, recording as well as learning how to behave in a group.· Gaia as a catalyst for scientific enquiry.· Yet one of the conditions for any scientific enquiry is to realise that something is in need of explanation. NOUN► directory· Only when she checked with directory enquiries did she learn that the receiver was off the hook.· Pascoe had obtained the number from directory enquiries and listened to her answerphone message a dozen times or more.· She hunted down the telephone number through directory enquiries and then rang.· First he rang directory enquiries and then the operator.· Perhaps she should get his number from directory enquiries. ► form· The publisher will require the client to complete an enquiry form soas to be satisfied as to the factual accuracy of the advertisement.· Preliminary enquiries and additional enquiries Under the traditional system of conveyancing, the preliminary enquiry form remains in use. ► number· Reader enquiry number 134 Downlighters Designed Architectural Lighting has launched a new range of 14 downlighters.· For further information on a particular company's products, please circle the appropriate enquiry number on the reader service card. ► reader· Together with other Library staff, responsible for reader assistance and helping with reader enquiries. 11. ► service· A complete range of enquiry services is available to personal callers - the variety is so large as to make description impossible.· They are again important as supplements to the enquiry service. ► telephone· Through telephone enquiries he discovered that there were plenty of Carrows and Tremaynes in the county and not a few who were ex-directory.· It has been produced because of the telephone enquiries we are now receiving following publicity in the national press.· Several reference site visits and telephone enquiries to current users were then made.· Station and telephone enquiry bureaux can answer queries on individual services.· The library office is open for telephone enquiries and our information officers are more than happy to receive your calls. VERB► answer· Our staff will be pleased to answer your enquiries and take your booking.· He assumed that a porter or janitor was usually stationed there to be on call or to answer enquiries.· Staff require access to most information resources in order to answer enquiries.· These leaflets should include horticultural advice, so that they can be used to answer enquiries.· The reception office should be so organised that all sources of information necessary to answer enquiries are immediately to hand.· Many of the cases are responsa, in which the jurist is answering a legal enquiry. ► conduct· It may be that a judge is well qualified to conduct enquiries to establish what took place on particular occasions.· The magistrate may question the suspect and other witnesses and conduct his own enquiries.· The company that sent in the bailiffs, Bristow and Sutor, say they're conducting an enquiry. ► deal· Bull has set up a freephone number to deal with customer enquiries.· I've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day.· Anyone else asking for information should immediately be referred to the manager who will take the responsibility of dealing with the enquiry.· Over the last year it has dealt with enquiries from about 450 former service personnel.· My department will deal with all enquiries resulting from the canvas, including those concerning banding.· They provide information for the receptionist when dealing with enquiries for the guests as to what standard equipment is in the room.· More than 85% of those questioned say they think stores should have freephone numbers to deal with shoppers' enquiries.· They will either deal with your enquiry or direct you to the appropriate department in the University. ► follow· The massive effort of the 1970s Royal Commission is to be followed by yet another enquiry.· The teacher must also be prepared to follow up lines of enquiry started by the pupils.· Benefits calculation packages are especially popular with inexperienced advice workers to ensure that they have followed every avenue of enquiry. ► handle· I gave out my home address to save Radio Leicester having to handle the enquiries.· In 1989-90 the service handled 6,959,276 enquiries, an increase of 38 percent. over 1982 - 83. ► help· He's been taken back to Banbury where's he helping police with their enquiries.· A police spokesman added that the businessman on whose premises the bikes were found was helping with their enquiries.· It was organised by the Chamber of Shipping, whose personnel were on hand to help with enquiries.· A twenty year old man is now helping police with their enquiries.· Drawings, identikit pictures, character descriptions will all help our enquiries.· It will help us with our enquiries if you can give us the envelope or the outer wrapping. ► make· Jobbernole listened painfully to her remarks, but did not bother to make further enquiries.· If in doubt take a needle with you and make enquiries before you buy. 8.· Nellie had no idea where her friend Aggie could obtain a neutered tomcat but she had made enquiries.· Other applicants should also make enquiries early in the year in which they propose to commence a postgraduate course. 1.· Quite often, the police ask for a remand to give them time to make further enquiries, assemble their evidence and so on.· By all means make enquiries in order to aid observation.· All the same, progress was being made with the enquiries into Pierre's disappearance.· If in doubt, the developer should check the levels of noise at different times and make enquiries with local people. ► pursue· It rests on a readiness on the part of practitioners to pursue their own enquiries in the very process of classroom teaching.· If Clarke had intended to pursue his enquiries further, he obviously thought better of it under that formidable gaze.· All too often the outside researcher pursues lines of enquiry which the prevailing culture manages to encompass and nullify.· Margaret was encouraged to continue pursuing her enquiries with the solicitor. ► receive· Yet each year the Equal Opportunities Commission receives between 700-800 enquiries relating to pregnancy dismissals.· The service currently receives over 790O enquiries a year from members on a wide range of topics.· Within five minutes, they had received over one hundred enquiries. ► start· They recognised you, and described me well enough for him to start making enquiries. ► undertake· Since that time, no other organization has, to our knowledge, undertaken so comprehensive an enquiry. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► eliminate somebody from your enquiries► somebody is helping the police with their enquiries► house-to-house inquiries/search/collection etc especially British English another spelling of inquiry
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