| 词组 | inquire, enquire |
| 释义 | inquire, enquire 1. Both inquire and enquire are used in American and British English. Enquire appears more frequently in British English than in American English. When enquire does appear in American English, it is usually in bookish or formal contexts. Overall, in American English inquire occurs more often than enquire; in British English inquire occurs about as often as does enquire. 2. When inquire and enquire are used with a preposition, it is most often about or into: • ... their host inquired about the horses —American Guide Series: Louisiana, 1941 • ... but he did inquire about it —Times Literary Supp., 17 July 1969 • ... before we enquire into the affirmative aspects of this hope —McGeorge Bundy, ed., The Pattern of Responsibility, 1951 • ... he enquired into dynamical problems involving the measures of time and velocity —S. F. Mason, Main Currents of Scientific Thought, 1953 Inquire and enquire are used less frequently with after orfor: • The parents of the boys he played with always inquired after his father and mother —F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Rich Boy," 1926 • ... as if she enquired after a favorite child —Katherine Anne Porter, "The Source," in Mid Country, ed. Lowry C. Wimberly, 1945 • It was soon evident that this was the reddleman who had inquired for her —Thomas Hardy, The Return ofthe Native, 1878 • ... enquiring for news of the war —Yale Rev., October 1919 There is also some evidence of use with as to and concerning: • ... when he told a man who enquired as to the progress of his comedy that he had finished it —Matthew Arnold, reprinted in Encore, November 1944 • ... a man who was carrying a load of pottery to market stopped his horse against my field and inquired concerning Wyman the younger —Henry David Thoreau, Waiden, 1854 Inquire and enquire are usually used with of when the object is the person asked; less frequently from is used in this relation: • Let spendthrifts' heirs enquire of yours—who's wiser —Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XII, 1823 • ... he had long inquired of himself what great principle or idea it was that had created the Union — Archibald MacLeish, Saturday Rev., 13 Nov. 1971 • ... when he inquired from his friend, David Garnett, whether the rest of the party really liked him — Times Literary Supp., 19 May 1971 |
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