学术英语经典表达 002 | call into question 表示质疑

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学术英语经典表达 002


call into question
表示质疑
to cause doubts about something


  1. More generally, the findings of the studies presented in section 2 call into question the traditional way of revising through written corrections.

  2. About ten years ago, Künzli (2014, p. 25) noted that the few empirical studies available called into question the usefulness of revision.

  3. This paradox must be explained, or at least called into question.

  4. Referring to multilingualism as the ‘corollary’ of the universality of the UN, the General Assembly regretted that unequal use is made in the UN of the different official languages and of the working languages of the Secretariat and noted that the principle of equality of the official languages was being called into question with increasing frequency by the holding of so-called low-cost informal meetings.

  5. For example, if roughly 25 million residents of the United States were unable to access the laws, communicate with public authorities, and become informed of public debate, the democratic model itself would be called into question because millions would be excluded from it.

  6. If these results were to prove true (evidence is still lacking to be categorical), scientific research would call into question the ISO standard’s approach, namely the principle that compliance with certain procedures ensures a certain level of quality.

  7. Meylaerts (2007) calls into question notions of objectivity in interpreting by examining interpreters in the European Parliament as well as concepts such as ‘axiology’, such as the conception that interpreters are subject to their own ideological system.

  8. Pragmatic universals, together with their descriptive and analytical apparatus have also been called into question with regard to whether or not they are true candidates for universal status or rather culture- specific descriptions of idealised Anglo-American English language use (Wierzbicka 1991; Baker 1992).

  9. However, the validity of the methodology utilized can be called into question by the research limitations which affect the use of these qualitative data, such as a sampling bias (Yates 1935) or the Hawthorne Effect (McCarney et al. 2007).2

  10. It may also prove challenging to obtain permission to observe CAT/CAI tool use in a natural setting, which can call into question the ecological validity of some experiments.

  11. In the context of research on literary-adapted MT, for instance, Kenny and Winters (2020: 130–31) call into question the ecological validity of laboratory-based settings used in research involving literary translators who typically work from home and are not familiar with the specific PE interfaces employed in some studies.


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