investigate
verb [ I or T ] uk/ɪnˈves.tɪ.ɡeɪt/ us/ɪnˈves.tə.ɡeɪt/
B2 （尤指为揭开真相）调查，审查
to examine a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover the truth
Police are investigating allegations of corruption involving senior executives. 警方正在调查对高级管理人员涉嫌贪污的指控。
[ + question word ] We are of course investigating how an error like this could have occurred. 我们当然正在调查发生此类错误的原因。
Investigating further, we discovered that Carol was the person who took the call.
- More examples
- Scotland Yard have been called in to investigate the murder.
- The remit of this official inquiry is to investigate the reasons for the accident.
- The government set up a commission to investigate the problem of inner city violence.
- The UN is investigating new methods of population control .
- I wonder what that noise was in the kitchen - I'd better go and investigate.