inquisition

尋問、質問攻め

質問が多すぎたり厳しすぎたりして、相手を不快にする尋問。

やさしい英語で： A series of questions, often so many or so forceful that they make someone uncomfortable.

• Dinner turned into an inquisition.
• I endured an inquisition about my new boyfriend.
• Why does every family visit involve an inquisition?

使い方： inquisition about something (I faced an inquisition about where I had been.)

類義語： interrogation, questioning, grilling

よく使う表現： endless inquisition, face an inquisition, inquisition about something

思想弾圧、異端審問

信念や意見を理由に人を不当に狙うものと見なされる調査。

やさしい英語で： An investigation seen as unfairly targeting people because of their beliefs or opinions.

• Critics called the inquiry an inquisition.
• The committee's investigation became a political inquisition.
• Several writers lost their jobs during the ideological inquisition.

類義語： witch hunt

よく使う表現： political inquisition, ideological inquisition, inquisition against someone

調査、究明

ある事柄について真実を明らかにするための調査。

やさしい英語で： An investigation carried out to find the truth about something.

• An inquisition was ordered.
• The committee conducted an inquisition into the dispute.
• Its records describe an official inquisition into the ownership of the land.

使い方： inquisition into something (The council ordered an inquisition into the missing funds.)

類義語： investigation, inquiry

よく使う表現： official inquisition, conduct an inquisition, inquisition into something

死因審問、司法調査

多くは死因を調べる公式な司法調査、またはその結論を記した文書。

やさしい英語で： An official legal inquiry, often into a death, or the written finding of that inquiry.

• The coroner held an inquisition.
• The jury's inquisition recorded an accidental death.
• A copy of the inquisition was filed with the court.

類義語： inquest

よく使う表現： coroner's inquisition, jury's inquisition, hold an inquisition