喜樂美語
  1. 1vB2/ɪnˈkwaɪr/ · /ɪnˈkwaɪə/詢問；打聽

    正式To ask someone for information about something. Enquire is the usual British spelling of the same verb that American English as inquire; the two words mean exactly the same thing.

    示範例句 · Example

    I am writing to enquire about the summer job you advertised last week.

    逐字我正在寫信詢問你們上週刊登的那份暑期工作。

    enquire 就是 inquire，同一個字的兩種拼法：英式英文多寫 enquire，美式英文寫 inquire，意思和用法完全一樣，念起來也一樣。它是比較正式、有禮貌的「問」，最常出現在寫信、打電話給機構、櫃台洽詢、店門口的公告上；跟朋友同學講話問事情，英文母語者還是說 ask。可以把 enquire 想成「把一個問題有禮貌地送出去，等對方把資訊送回來」，所以後面很常接 about（enquire about the price 打聽價錢），也可以直接接 how／whether／when 帶出你想知道的整句話。

    常見搭配

    • enquire about something

      詢問某件事

      to ask someone for information about a particular thing

      Aisha rang the community centre to enquire about the pottery class.

    • enquire whether / how / when

      詢問是否／如何／何時…

      to ask a question that needs a whole sentence to say

      She wrote to enquire when the library would open again.

    • enquire into something

      深入了解、調查某事

      to try to find out the facts about something, often officially

      The town council enquired into how the park money had been spent.

    • enquire within

      請入內洽詢

      used on a sign to tell people to come inside and ask

      The sign on the gate said: Puppies for sale — enquire within.

    • an enquiring mind

      喜歡追根究柢的頭腦

      a mind that likes to find out about things

      Ren is a quiet boy with an enquiring mind.

    意思相反

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core核心畫面

Picture someone up to a counter — a hotel desk, a ticket window, an information booth — and asking a careful, polite question to find something out. Not chatting, not demanding: just formally seeking a piece of information. That's enquire. It is the British spelling of the same verb Americans write as inquire, and it carries a more formal tone than plain ask.

一個人走到櫃檯前——旅館的接待櫃檯、售票窗口、服務台——客客氣氣地開口問一件事，想弄清楚某個資訊。不是閒聊，也不是質問，就是正式地去打聽一個消息。這個字是英式拼法，美式寫成 inquire，兩者意思完全一樣，只是拼字不同。跟最普通的 ask 比起來，enquire 明顯正式一階：跟朋友你會說 ask，寫信給公司、在櫃檯詢問，才會用 enquire。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

過去式 enquired過去分詞 enquired-ing enquiring三單 enquires

意思相反

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原始詞典資料1 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。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。