中文翻译与英英解释

n.
1.调查，审查。
2.【法律】讯问，审理；调查[审查]报告书。
3.〔the I-〕 (中世纪天主教审判异端的)宗教法庭。
4.(对于被认为是危险分子的)恣意镇压，严厉刑罚。
adj.
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a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)

The Inquisition (Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis; Inquiry on Heretical Perversity), was a group of decentralized institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to "fight against heretics". It started in 12th-century France to combat the spread of heresy and error, and was later expanded to other European countries.

例句与用法

The coroner embodies it in an inquisition .
验尸官将它记录在勘验笔录上。

We were on the ever of a partisan senate inquisition .
我们正处在有党派偏见的参院调查的前夕。

The spanish inquisition was roasting and racking, and burning with a free hand .
西班牙的宗教裁判正在恣意施行严刑拷打。

The inquisition had burned people but could not burn their ideas .
宗教裁判所曾经烧掉了他们的肉体，但并没有烧掉他们的思想。

Inquisition means the document recording the result of an inquiry, or coroner's inquest .
调查报告指记录审讯结果或验尸结果的文件。

There was no longer any question about the doom the inquisition had prepared for me .
对宗教法庭给我安排好的归宿已经不再有任何疑问了。

We can see even his famous clash with the inquisition in something like its proper perspective .
我们仍然可以从其了不起的正确角度来看待他那著名的与宗教法庭的冲突。

I never could put up with the woman ' s inquisition
我决受不了这女人的问长问短。

An inquisition into serving life of construction machinery
工程机械使用寿命探讨

A new inquisition of service for audience in campus library
大学图书馆读者服务新探