前两天公司来了个应聘的小姑娘,人长得漂亮学历也挺高,本以为她能很快入职呢,但没想到今儿个听说她被刷下去了......问了老板原因,他回了一句:
Because of the poor performance on the spot, we called her qualifications into question.
在这里,老板用了一句关键的短语——call into question,这可不是“给谁谁打电话问问”的意思哈,而是“对某人或某事提出质疑或怀疑”的意思,所以刚才老板是在说:“由于她当场的表现不佳,我们对她的资质提出了质疑。”
call (someone or something) in/into question
引起对…的怀疑,使……受到质疑、怀疑;质问; 反驳
【En】
To cause someone or something to be viewed with doubt.
致使对某人或某事产生怀疑。
to raise a question or doubt about.
提出问题或怀疑。
to make people uncertain about whether something is right, good, or true.
使人不确定某事是对的、好的还是真的。
to cause someone or something to be evaluated; to examine or reexamine the qualifications or value of someone or something.
使某人或某事被评价;检查或重新检查某人或某事的资格或价值。
● How can you call her honesty into question?
你怎么能怀疑她的诚实呢?
● I feel that my competence is being called into question here.
我觉得我的能力在这里受到了质疑。
● The fact that a party can be voted into power by a minority of the electorate calls into question the country's electoral system.
赢得少数选民的政党也能当选执政,这引发了人们对该国选举制度的怀疑。
● His whereabouts the day before were called in question when he was being interrogated.
在审讯他时,人们对他前一天的行踪提出了质疑。
● I considered Walt for the promotion, but his constant lateness soon called that decision into question.
我曾考虑提拔沃尔特,但他经常迟到,很快就使我的决定受到了质疑。
● Such a significant error really calls all of the experiment's results into question.
如此重大的误差使所有的实验结果都受到质疑。
● Nothing that has happened since has called that judgment into question.
自那以后发生的任何事情都没有使这一判断受到质疑。
● It's impossible to call these rules into question.
要质疑这些规则是不可能的。
● You cannot call her behaviour into question without drawing attention to yourself.
你不能质疑她的行为而不引起别人的注意。
● He has called their competence into question more than once, and he may have been right all along.
他不止一次质疑他们的能力,也许他一直都是对的。
【Scenario Example 场景示例】
● And while the injunctions are subject to unwitting acceptance, it is impossible to call them into question.
尽管这些禁令在不知情的情况下得到了接受,但我们不可能对它们提出质疑。
● The findings in healthy children call dietary recommendations into question, the researchers said.
研究人员表示,对健康儿童的研究结果引发了对饮食建议的思考。
● They find it very difficult, therefore, to call God's existence into question.
因此,他们发现很难对上帝的存在提出疑问。
● Because of her poor record, we were forced to call Dr. Jones into question.
由于她的不良记录,我们不得不对琼斯博士提出质疑。
● We called Dr. Jones's qualifications into question.
我们对琼斯博士的资历提出了质疑。
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