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Picture a question mark drawn in the margin next to a line in a document. It is not an argument and not a complaint — it is a small flag that says: I want to check this. query is that flag, whether you raise it to get information or because a number looks wrong.

可以想成在一份文件旁邊，某一行的空白處被畫上一個問號。那不是爭論，也不是抱怨，只是一個小小的記號，意思是「這個我想確…更多收起可以想成在一份文件旁邊，某一行的空白處被畫上一個問號。那不是爭論，也不是抱怨，只是一個小小的記號，意思是「這個我想確認一下」。query 就像那個記號——不管你舉手是為了問清楚，還是因為某個數字看起來怪怪的。

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對正確性打問號

同一個問號，但這次不是為了問到不知道的事，而是指著一個已經寫在那裡的說法說「這個對嗎」。

question the accuracy · verb · B2

to say you are not sure something is true or correct, and to ask about it.

質疑；提出疑問

Also in this word

question, query · noun · B2

Something you ask about, either to get information or to make sure it is right.

疑問；詢問

ask · verb · B2

to ask a question.

詢問；提問

原始詞典資料11 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。

Queryname

  • 1

    A surname.

querynoun/ˈkwɪə.ɹi/

  • 1

    A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).

    • The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
  • 2

    A question mark.

    • His Glossary has ‘bouchen, to stop people's mouths,’; but this is followed by a query, to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote.
    • She had written in her diary: "I don't think I am in a concentration-camp??????", the queries growing larger and more numerous till they covered the entire page […]
  • 3

    computingdatabasesengineeringA set of instructions passed to a database.

    • The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

queryverb/ˈkwɪə.ɹi/

  • 1

    To ask a question.

  • 2

    To ask, inquire.

    • It’s queried whether there be any Science in the ſenſe of the Dogmatiſts: […]
    • “You must have had an active life,” queried the shopkeeper, “before you retired?”
  • 3

    To question or call into doubt.

    • The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
  • 4

    computingdatabasesengineeringTo pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.

    • Linked tables can be accessed, queried, combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction.
  • 5

    To send a private message to (a user on IRC).

    • if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.
  • 6

    mediapublishingTo send out a query letter.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。