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To interrogate someone is to question them hard and for a long time, usually to pull out information they may not want to give. Police, soldiers, and intelligence services are the classic users.
To interrogate someone is to question them hard and for a long timeInterrogate某人就是嚴厲、長時間地質問他們 usually to pull out information they may not want to give通常是為了逼出他們可能不想給的資訊 Police, soldiers, and intelligence services are the classic users警察、軍人和情報單位是最典型會這麼做的人
The room can be cold, the time long, and there may be threats. It is a strong, official-sounding verb, not how you ask a friend about their weekend.
The room can be cold, the time long, and there may be threats房間可能冷冰冰的，時間可能很長，甚至可能有威脅 It is a strong, official-sounding verb這是一個很強烈、聽起來很官方的動詞 not how you ask a friend about their weekend不是你問朋友週末過得如何的那種問法
In computing, a program can interrogate a machine or a database: it sends questions and waits for answers, with no human fear involved. Though actually, in ordinary English a parent may interrogate a child about a party, stretching the police picture for effect — nosy and intense, not a crime scene. A calm interview is a different, gentler thing.
In computing在電腦領域裡 a program can interrogate a machine or a database程式可以interrogate一台機器或一個資料庫 it sends questions and waits for answers它送出問題，然後等待答案 with no human fear involved完全沒有人類的恐懼在裡面 Though actually不過實際上 in ordinary English a parent may interrogate a child about a party在日常英文裡，父母也可能interrogate小孩關於一場派對的事 stretching the police picture for effect誇張地借用警察審問的畫面來加強效果 nosy and intense, not a crime scene意思是很愛打聽、逼問很緊，而不是真的犯罪現場 A calm interview is a different, gentler thing平靜的interview（面談）是另外一回事，溫和多了
組成Learned borrowing from Latin interrogātus, from interrogō (to inquire, to interrogate). English uses the verb-forming suffix -ate. The Latin verb is inter- (between; among) + rogō (to ask).
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- interrogationthe process of doing this
- interrogatorthe person who does this
- interrogativegrammar word for question forms, from the same Latin asking verb
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
interrogateverb/ɪnˈtɛɹəɡeɪt/
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To question or quiz, especially in a thorough or aggressive manner.
- The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go.
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo query (something); to request information from (something).
- to interrogate a database
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literaryTo examine (something) critically.
- Griffin's approach allows her to reveal Billie Holiday's resilient strength of character and to interrogate the racism she endured, which was as tragic as her personal mistakes.
- Within the contemporary US context, the construct of childhood innocence is a powerful social myth that structures children’s social relations and culture and informs their rights and status in society. In this article, I interrogate the construct of childhood innocence to examine how it operates as an exclusionary form of social practice.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。