(noun.) a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals).
(noun.) a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy.
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双语例句
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Here even the Inquisition was restored. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In all countries, a severe inquisition into the circumstances of private persons has been carefully avoided. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Galileo, although he was ill, went to Rome, and was placed on trial before the Inquisition. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
He was the life of the ship, the bloody-minded son of the Inquisition! 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Nothing is hidden from their inquisition, and their families mutely rule our city. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
It looked like a drawing of the Inquisition. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
It was this that brought him before the Inquisition and that branded him as a dangerous heretic, and it was this that placed him in the forefront of the world’s discoverers. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Rather than suffer the pains of the Inquisition he agreed, and made his solemn declaration. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Galileo’s teachings were pointed out as dangerous to the teachings of the Church, and the officers of the Inquisition began to consider how they might best deal with him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
They were paying for the Inquisition now, all right. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
The Inquisition did its work ruthlessly. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
It is a great pity the playful Inquisition is no more. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Whether he said this or not there can be no doubt but that the great astronomer knew the performance was a farce, and that the world did move in spite of all the Inquisition could declare. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
He does in wars, in racial and religious persecutions; he did in the Spain of the Inquisition; he does in the American lynching. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
The idea of riding all day long over such ghastly inquisitions of torture is sickening. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.