逼問你的人
這一支講的是感覺：問題不停，而且你必須答。
noun · C1
Someone who keeps asking you hard questions, one after another, so that you feel you are being examined rather than talked with.
盤問者
核心畫面
A useful picture is one person sitting across from you, asking question after question, while you are the one who has to answer. The questions do not stop and they keep digging, so the room stops feeling like a conversation and starts feeling like an examination. Both meanings of the word live in that room: today it is usually a friend or a colleague who will not let the subject drop, and in history it was an official whose questions decided what happened to you next.
可以想成這個畫面：一個人坐在你對面，問題一個接一個，而且每次都問得更深，答的人永遠是你。房間裡的氣氛就從聊天變成受審…更多收起
可以想成這個畫面：一個人坐在你對面，問題一個接一個，而且每次都問得更深，答的人永遠是你。房間裡的氣氛就從聊天變成受審。這個字的兩個意思都住在這個房間裡。今天多半是那個不肯放過話題的朋友或同事；在歷史上，則是一位問完就能決定你下場的官員。From the word’s history
From Old French inquisiteur, from Latin inquīsītor, which meant simply one who inquires or searches into something. The church court later took that plain word as an official title, and the title is what gave the word the pressure it carries today.
這個字來自古法文 inquisiteur，再往前是拉丁文 inquīsītor，本來只是「追查的人」。後來教會的裁判所把這個普通的字拿來當正式職稱。今天這個字帶著的壓迫感，是從那個職稱來的，不是從拉丁文本身來的。
Wiktionary etymology in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1038648582:9151): From Old French inquisiteur, from Latin inquīsītor.
Two branches
歷史上的審判官
同一個字的舊職稱用法。今天那種壓迫感，通常被看成是從這個畫面借來的。
noun · C2
An official of the Inquisition, the church court that questioned people about their beliefs and decided whether they had gone against church teaching.
宗教裁判所審判官