- 1審問、訊問
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. 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. 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.
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，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。
interrogateverb/ɪnˈtɛɹəɡeɪt/
- 1
To question or quiz, especially in a thorough or aggressive manner.
- The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go.
- 2
computingengineeringmathematicsTo query (something); to request information from (something).
- to interrogate a database
- 3
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.
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