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单词 to look after
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to look after ——
to look after ——
1. intransitive. To follow with the eye; to look in the direction of (a departing person or thing). Also: †to observe the course or path of (a person or thing) (obsolete).In quot. 1858 figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > watch or observe > follow with eyes
to look after ——OE
followa1393
suea1398
pursue1558
tracea1701
to watch after1850
OE Blickling Homilies 121 Þa hie þa in þone heofon locodan æfter him, & hie Drihten gesawon upastigendne.
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 2377 Ac al þai loked swiþe ȝerne After Tintagel and Ygerne.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xxxiii. 8 All the people rose vp,..and loked after Moses, tyll he was gone in to the Tabernacle.
1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxvii. vii Thou shalt see The wicked by his own pride banisht; Looke after him, he shall be vanisht.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 219 My selfe bewayles good Glosters case With sad vnhelpefull teares, and with dimn'd eyes; Looke after him, and cannot doe him good.
1679 Earl of Castlemaine Eng. Globe vi. xii. 138 If you look after any particular Star..you are sure he is..in a Declining state.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Coventry No body looked after her [sc. Godiva]; yet 'tis said elsewhere, that a poor taylor would needs be peeping.
1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield li. 523 As I looked after his figure,..I saw him turn his face towards a strip of silvery light upon the sea.
1858 H. Bushnell Serm. for New Life xii. 234 His soul still looking covertly after the goods she has lost.
1944 B. Wilder & C. Brackett Lost Weekend (2000) 22 (stage direct.) They both look after Don.
1987 A. Brookner Friend from Eng. iv. 76 I left him..standing on the stairs and looking after me.
2006 S. M. Stirling Sky People xii. 262 The beast hesitated and swung his head left, looking after his herd-mates.
2. intransitive.
a. To seek, search for. Now regional or colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)]
seekc888
aseekc1000
i-secheOE
huntc1175
to seek afterc1175
beseechc1200
fand?c1225
ofseche?c1225
to seek forc1250
atseekc1275
furiec1290
forseeka1300
outseekc1300
upseekc1315
to look after ——c1330
wait1340
laita1350
searchc1350
pursuea1382
ensearchc1384
to feel and findc1384
inseekc1384
looka1398
fraist?a1400
umseeka1400
require?c1400
walec1400
to look up1468
prowla1475
to see for ——c1485
to look for ——a1492
to have in the wind1540
sue1548
vent?1575
seek1616
explore1618
dacker1634
research1650
to see out for1683
quest1752
to see after ——1776
c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) 786 (MED) Tweye manere shame men fint in boke, Who-so wole þerafter loke.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11086 (MED) Þenne loked aftir sir Zakary Tables & poyntel tyte.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 77 Such that his suer trouthe is not lokid aftir neither souȝt after.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. ix. f. xvv Wherefore there is not why the worlde shoulde loke after an other priest, or an other sacrifice to pourge synnes.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 241 Martius..cried out on them, that it was no time now to looke after spoyle.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) ii. i. 174 We must leave him to his liberty,..and not looke after a remedy for those maladies which are not capable of any.
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) To look after (to seek) a thing, Chercher quelque chose.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 120. ¶1 He has caught me twice or thrice looking after a Bird's Nest.
1793 J. O'Keeffe London Hermit i. 4 Old Pranks. So, you've pick'd up the mocusses in the Indies!.. Never look'd after me. Whimmy. I ask'd every body after you.
1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts III. 64 Mr. Dark and myself set forth to look after him from Darrock Hall.
1868 C. Jay Law xviii. 199 They looked after him for a long time, but could not find him.
1918 ‘B. MacNamara’ Valley of Squinting Windows xi. 66 Oh, looking after fresh girls always, the same as his father.
1985 Sat. Night Feb. 37/3 He looking after his papers for coming up here.
b. To require, demand (a quality or attribute). Obsolete.
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the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > need [verb (transitive)] > require or demand
askOE
willa1225
requirec1425
crave1576
desire1577
exact1592
solicit1592
wish1600
postulate1605
expect1615
to look after ——a1616
seek1656
demand1748
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 247 The knaue..hath all those requisites in him that folly and green mindes look after . View more context for this quotation
1695 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. (new ed.) §94. 162 There is yet another Reason, why Politeness of Manners, and Knowledge of the World should principally be look'd after in a Tutor.
1822 S. T. Coleridge Lett., Conversat., & Recoll. (1836) II. 98 Those marks which too frequently are overlooked,..but which ought to be looked for and looked after, by every woman who has ever reflected on the words ‘my future Husband’.
3. intransitive. To anticipate, expect; to look forward to. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (transitive)]
weenOE
weenc1000
thinklOE
lookc1225
hopec1330
trusta1387
wait onc1390
supposea1393
to wait after ——1393
to look after ——c1400
thinkc1480
attend1483
suppone1490
expect1535
to expect for1538
aspect1548
respect1549
look1560
ween1589
attend1591
propose1594
await1608
to presume on, upon, or of1608
to look forwards1637
prospect1652
to look for ——a1677
augur1678
anticipate1749
to look to ——1782
spect1839
contemplate1841–8
to look forward1848
eye1979
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iv. l. 249 Þe lest lad þat longeþ to hym..Lokeþ after lordshep oþer oþere large mede.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. l. 181 (MED) Þere þe lewed lith stille and loketh after lente.
1477 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 504 He lokyth afftre þat ye sholde com see hym.
1482 W. Cely Let. 29 Apr. in Cely Lett. (1975) 144 My Lorde Chamberleyn ys at Dower, and they loke afftyr hym at Calys at euery tyde.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 37 Ve lwik efter ane blissit hop and the glorious cuming of the greit God.
a1555 N. Ridley in N. Ridley & H. Latimer Certein Conf. (1556) sig. Ev Hitherunto ye se..howe I haue in wordes onely made..a florishe before the fighte which I shortelie looke after.
1611 Bible (King James) Luke xxi. 26. Mens hearts failing them for feare, and for looking after those things which are comming on the earth. View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Howe Disc. Unconverted Man's Enmity God 15 Sometimes think of him, as merciless, and irreconcilable; and therefore, never look after being reconciled to him.
1764 J. Stronge Providential Hist. Mankind Opened xiii. 423 The bulk of the Jewish nation..have followed false teachers, leading them..to look after a fictitious or an imaginary Saviour.
4. intransitive.
a. To tend to, take care of; esp. to provide for the welfare of (a person, animal, etc.).
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] > take care of or look after
yknowOE
knowlOE
to care forc1230
bihedec1250
beseec1300
to look to ——c1300
seea1325
await1393
observea1425
procurea1425
to look after ——1487
to take (also have) regard to (or of)a1500
regard1526
to see after ——1544
to look unto ——1545
attendc1572
to take care of1579
curea1618
tend1631
to look over ——1670
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 616 Eftir the fyre he lukit fast.
1590 J. Eliot tr. J. de L'Espine Sicke-mans Comfort 145 The care that he had to looke after them [sc. goods], woulde not suffer him to haue anie leasure.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 131 He's in the third degree of drinke: hee's drown'd: go looke after him. View more context for this quotation
1670 N. W. tr. W. Franz Hist. Brutes xxxiv. 251 Thales..advised them, that all who looked after horses should be married men.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xliv. 581 The many Boys I have had to look after my Horses.
1770 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 43/2 As many sheep as may be looked after by one person.
1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) i. 2 To meet the master looking after his fruit-trees.
1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 30 The person who ‘looked after him’ did not sleep on the premises.
1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) x. 245 ‘What'll we do if he passes out in your place?’ Corinne asked. ‘I'll look after him,’ said Vicky.
1973 Jerusalem Post 10 Dec. 8/3 The kindness of some of the jailers who washed and looked after him when he was too weak to take care of himself.
2010 P. O'Grady Devil rides Out xii. 226 My next assignment as a peripatetic was looking after a girl and her three brothers while their mother went into hospital for a hysterectomy.
b. To have as one's business or concern; to give consideration to; to manage, administer.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > take care about [verb (transitive)] > attend to or cultivate
minda1400
intend1429
to look after ——1542
cultivate1654
1542 T. Becon New Pollecye of Warre sig. D.viii If thou dyddest know..those thynges whiche belong vnto thy peace, surely thou wouldest be more diligent to looke after them.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. S3 Let them that haue the Commission for the Concealments looke after it, or the Man in the Moone put for it.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. 209 God himself did dispense with the strict ceremoniall precepts of the Law, where men did look after the main and substantial parts of the worship God required from them.
a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 73 Goe to Edinburgh to looke affter my concerne.
1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome i. 430 He could not look after his Sons' Education.
1774 G. Colman Man of Business ii. 25 I had better go up to the Alley, and look after the business myself.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. ix. 536 Under pretence of looking after the election, Clarendon set out for the West.
1891 Law Times 91 32/2 In theory, no doubt, the investor should look after his own interests.
1948 C. Rice Big Midget Murders xxxii. 269 Who was closer to the midget than Allswell McJackson, who stooged for him in his act,..and looked after his accounts?
2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 5 June (Homefront section) 9/1 Owner-builders..look after the co-ordinating and contracting roles normally undertaken by the builder.
5. intransitive. To watch closely, keep an eye on. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)]
biwitieOE
to look to ——c1330
watchc1330
to make or lay await onc1386
markc1400
to wait to ——c1440
to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon)a1450
waken1535
to look unto ——1594
to carry a wary (also watchful, etc.) eye on (also upon)1596
to look after ——a1616
overwatch1618
snokea1652
to look up1855
surveil1960
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 132 Is Lechery so look'd after ? View more context for this quotation
1672 C. Manners in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 25 Our Navy puts out again to sea..and wee shall then looke after the Holland Indian fleete.
1821 Examiner 742/1 The police look after all breaches of the peace.
1937 R. Lowry in New Statesman & Nation 28 Aug. 307/1 I observe that the Agricultural Workers' Union is fighting hard to get nurserymen of the market-garden variety..to pay a decent living wage, but the plant, tree and shrub nurseryman also pays low wages and needs looking after.
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