- 1(死因)調查、相驗
An inquest is an official investigation, usually run by a court, into how and why someone died, especially when the death is sudden, , or possibly suspicious. It's a legal and news word — you won't use it in daily conversation, but you'll meet it often in news reports about accidents or deaths. People sometimes use it loosely, and a bit jokingly, for any serious after-the-fact discussion of what went wrong, like "an inquest into the team's terrible season."
From the word’s history
From Old French enqueste, from Latin inquirere 'to inquire into'.
源自古法文 enqueste，來自拉丁文 inquirere「探查」。
組成"in-" (into) + "quest" (a search) — literally "a search into" what happened.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inquestnoun/ˈɪŋkwɛst/
- 1
A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death
- The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.
- However, the 'accidental death' verdict of the jury in the inquest into the Croydon tram accident of November 2016 is the latest episode in a saga that seems likely to prevent the full story of this eminently preventable disaster from ever being exposed.
- 2
An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome
- 3
The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry
- 4
obsoleterareenquiry; quest; search
- the laborious and vexatious inquest that the soul must make after science
- Hauing of late by diligent inquest, Prouided him a sword of meanest sort
- 5
Prosecutorial proceeding on whether or not a warrantless arrestee is charged with an offense.
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