It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Before examining the room I cross-questioned the servants, but only succeeded in eliciting the facts which I have already stated. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
A mathematician and experimenter himself, he had a genius for eliciting discussion and research by means o f adroit questions. 李贝.西洋科学史.