Probe

(noun.) an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity.

(noun.) an exploratory action or expedition.

(noun.) a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities.

(noun.) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; 'there was a congressional probe into the scandal'.

(verb.) question or examine thoroughly and closely.

(verb.) examine physically with or as if with a probe; 'probe an anthill'.

艾格尼丝编辑

• It is hard in you to probe me with that remark. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Mrs. Fisher continued to probe her embarrassment with an unflinching eye. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I decided, as a useful test, to probe her on the subject of her marriage-engagement to Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Well, Mr. Pickwick, sir, I wouldn't probe your feelings for the world. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Yet if you probe those interpretations there is no escaping the conclusion that they rest upon some notion of what man is like. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Wot we rekvire, sir, is a probe o' this here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Then she looked searchingly at Ursula, as if to probe her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Lacerations of the scalp (he probed--Does that hurt? 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He probed the glowworms with a bit of stick, and rolled them over, till the bright side of their tails was upwards. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I have no doubt, indeed, that she probed the Doctor's wound without knowing it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• But even thus early the stronger love of mechanical processes and of probing natural forces manifested itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in the hope of finding them. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Probing was unsatisfactory, he said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He would not drop the work, and while highly appreciative of the proposed honor, let it go by rather than quit for a week or two the stern drudgery of probing for the fact and the truth. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• No one looked at her, no one seemed aware of her presence; she was probing the very depths of insignificance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Sir Leicester sits like a statue, gazing at the cruel finger that is probing the life-blood of his heart. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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