| 单词 | to have a look |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have (also take) a look d. colloquial. to have (also take) a look: to look at a person or thing, esp. (in later use) for the purpose of examination; to inspect or scrutinize someone or something. Also in extended use: to investigate or consider an idea, prospect, or other immaterial thing. Cf. look v. 1a, look v. 4a. extracted from lookn. (a) With the object of one's gaze or consideration implied. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > examine or inspect through-lookc1175 spyc1325 to see overc1475 to see over ——1490 view1544 overview1549 sight1556 pervise1577 speculate1616 study1616 to have (also take) a look1673 to have a look1725 to eye over1795 scan1798 search1811 survey1860 skin1876 1673 J. Dryden Assignation iii. i. 25 I must have a look before we go. 1777 J. Whitfeld Conjectures on Tyndaris of Horace 21 Stept to Lloyd's, to take a look. 1830 J. P. Cobbett Jrnl. Tour in Italy 195 A young Roman lawyer..who is anxious, like myself, to have a look from the top of Mount Vesuvius. 1894 T. W. Hyde Following Greek Cross xxv. 153 About this time, Generals Meade and Warren came up on the rocks to take a look. 1920 P. Gibbs Realities of War iv. vii. 189 Come up and have a look, Jack. 1980 B. Jacoby Girl in Mirror ii. 65 Doctor. How is she? Mother. No change. Doctor. Let's have a look, shall we? 2006 I. Rankin Naming of Dead i. 13 I saw the sign yesterday... The one leading off the main drag. Decided I'd take a look. (b) With at. With the object of one's gaze or consideration specified. Cf. Phrases 2b(b). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > examine or inspect through-lookc1175 spyc1325 to see overc1475 to see over ——1490 view1544 overview1549 sight1556 pervise1577 speculate1616 study1616 to have (also take) a look1673 to have a look1725 to eye over1795 scan1798 search1811 survey1860 skin1876 1725 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. II. iii. 22 He would not go away without taking a look at the fine Gardens. 1769 G. S. Carey Shakespeare's Jubilee 16 Let's have a look at you before you go. 1831 New-Eng. Mag. Dec. 494 A great Irishman was brought up into the operating theatre, the other morning, for the class to have a look at. 1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. ii. 29 In the meantime I shall have a look at Warsaw. 1925 A. Loos Gentlemen prefer Blondes iv. 109 So then Mons. Broussard stopped crying and put on his glasses and took a good look at us. 1960 J. Iggulden Storms of Summer 169 I'll get the quack at the Bush Hospital to have a look at it in the morning. 2012 Action on Hearing Loss Aug. 24 The government will soon replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with Personal Independence Payment (PIP) as part of its radical welfare reforms—we take a look at how this may affect you. (c) With adverbs or prepositional phrases, forming phrases corresponding to phrasal verbs at look v. Esp. in to have (also take) a look around (or round). ΚΠ 1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 77/2 You'd bether just take a bit of a look round on the worlt, an' bid it good by. 1898 H. G. Wells Jimmy Goggles God in Cosmopolitan Nov. 109/1 I stopped once, and..had a look up. 1913 Bull. Geogr. Soc. Philadelphia 11 11 On approaching a strong rapid we usually took a look ahead to ascertain where the best line of advance lay. 1925 L. H. Myers Clio (1945) vii. 49 I had a look through the window. 1932 J. Buchan Gap in Curtain ii. 97 He hoped, while in the country, to have a look round. a1965 W. G. Purcell St. Croix Trail Country (1967) 97 I stepped over to have a look down from the edge of the hill. 1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV shooting script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 4. 70 Just take a look around and see how much is going on the side. 2011 A. Lewis Everybody Jam xiv. 99 I was having a quick look around. 2011 Independent 4 Aug. 13/1 Punk's not dead—it's just having..a look round a stately home. < as lemmas |
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