单词 | to look on |
释义 | > as lemmasto look on to look on 1. intransitive. a. To direct one's gaze in observation or contemplation; esp. to watch without participating, to be a spectator or observer. Cf. to look upon at Phrasal verbs 1.In early use (when on immediately precedes look) difficult to distinguish from onlook vb. at on- prefix 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look on or spectate to look onOE to look upona1470 to keep the ring1798 to play the gallery1870 spectate1929 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xxviii. 32 Syn ðine suna & ðine dohtra geseald oðrum folce, ðær ðu on locige [L. videntibus oculis tuis]. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 285 A trety of proprieteis..yat salbe gude and prouffitable for all men yat on lukis. a1568 in Bannatyne MS f. 136v For to luk on quha sa lykis na langer scho tareit. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iv. 38 Ile be a candleholder and looke on . View more context for this quotation 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xliii. sig. H2v He enioyes it that lookes on and bets not. 1649 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 434 The examinators..sall..exerceise them in the same kynd, the master lookeing on. 1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme Spanish Rhodomontades 21 Miscarrying in that Design too, he contented himself, for a while, to lye-by and look on. 1783 H. Rooke Trav. Arabia Felix vii. 54 An old slave, who looked on with silent anguish while a tear trickled down his cheek. a1830 W. Surtees Twenty-five Years in Rifle Brigade (1833) xvii. 342 In order to magnify the appearance of our force, should any concealed American be looking on, we extended our files. 1879 M. Pattison Milton x. 118 The world looks on and laughs. 1924 J. A. Thomson Sci. Old & New xliv. 259 While the umbrella-ant workers are busy.., some of their fellows, with enormously large heads, simply walk about looking on. 1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 13 July (1970) 296 I would depend upon that man if I were John Citizen looking on from my living room. 2013 New Yorker 4 Feb. 54/3 His father was a veterinarian and a metalworking hobbyist, who tinkered with his Lotuses and Mini Coopers in the back yard while his younger son looked on. b. to look on ahead: to direct one's gaze ahead of oneself; (hence) to consider or contemplate the future. ΚΠ 1854 Another Trip to East 135 Looking on ahead, we found to our sorrow that we had floated once more within sight of the citadel of ‘El Masr’, or Cairo. 1860 H. Fearon What to learn & what to Unlearn (new ed.) i. 33 In every way some knowledge of social economy would help a man. It would teach him to look on ahead. 1918 E. Philpotts Spinners xix. 453 Be a man and take man's views and look on ahead and think of your future life. 1962 Amer. Motorcyclist June 30/3 I looked on ahead at the people I knew. 2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. 23 We're always concerned about looking on ahead... We're not particularly nostalgic people. 2. intransitive. colloquial. To read from a book, etc., at the same time (with another person). ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [verb (intransitive)] > at the same time as another person to look over1837 to look on1893 1893 [implied in: Cornhill Mag. Jan. 64 They seem to have had a scarcity of music, necessitating a good deal of ‘looking on’.]. 1930 in Trans. Yorks. Dial. Soc. (1989) 17 43 Con Ah look on wi thee? 1994 C. Fuhrman Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys 104 Look on with someone else. 2003 A. Huebner We Pierce (2004) v. 53 He had..forgotten his textbook. Meg let him look on with her. to look on —— to look on —— 1. intransitive. With adverb (formerly also adjective) complement or phrase: to regard with a specified expression, or with a specified feeling or attitude. Cf. to look upon —— 1 at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > emotional attitude > hold, entertain, or cherish (a feeling) [verb (transitive)] > entertain a feeling towards to look on ——lOE owea1375 to look upon ——c1405 lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. v. 247 Se wisdom þa and seo gesceadwisnes him bliðum eahum on locodon. [No corresponding passage in the Latin original.] ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 312 Ne loke ueste onan mon. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7612 (MED) For los þat dauid wan þat sith, Wald neuer saul lok on him blith. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 7 (MED) Sum childyr þat can not speke, Þei can loke angrily on hem þat greue hem. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 49 Parys..lokit on þat louely with a light chere. 1583 R. P. tr. P. de la Sierra Second Pt. Myrror of Knighthood ii. xxiv. f. 292 This new knight turned his head, & looked on him with..wrath & anger. 1661 G. Leyburn Encyclicall Answer 14 Mr. Blacloe and his faction..looking on me with an enuious eye. 1707 C. Cibber Lady's Last Stake ii. 25 She dares not tho' in Raillery look kindly on me. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. viii. 56 As to his Person, I assure you, I long continued to look on it with great Indifference. 1837 New Monthly Mag. Apr. 542 Fate..still looked on him maliciously. 1881 S. R. Gardiner & J. B. Mullinger Introd. Study Eng. Hist. i. iii. 40 Edwin and Morcar..looked on him with family jealousy. 1916 J. M. Creed Recoll. Austral. 88 The prairie horses rarely do more than buck straight ahead, which in Australia is looked on with contempt and called ‘pig-jumping’. 1959 New Statesman 7 Feb. 177/1 The term ‘axis’ is looked on with disfavour here [i.e. in Bonn] as a reminder of the Berlin–Rome–Tokyo axis of the Nazis. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 22 Dec. b7/6 Pianists can only look on all this with a jaded attitude. 2. intransitive. To regard as being something specified. Also: †to consider to be something specified (obsolete). Cf. to look upon —— 3a at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > consider to be, account as telleOE talec897 seeOE letc1000 holdc1200 reckon1340 aima1382 accounta1387 counta1387 judgec1390 takea1400 countc1400 receivec1400 existimatec1430 to look on ——?c1430 makec1440 reputea1449 suppose1474 treatc1485 determinea1513 recount?c1525 esteem1526 believe1533 estimate?1533 ascribe1535 consider1539 regard1547 count1553 to look upon ——1553 take1561 reck1567 eye?1593 censure1597 subscribe1600 perhibit1613 behold1642 resent1642 attributea1657 fancy1662 vogue1675 decount1762 to put down1788 to set down1798 rate1854 have1867 mean1878 ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 192 Alle oþere schullen be doumbe & loken on hem as foolis. a1555 J. Bradford Two Notable Serm. (1574) sig. G.viiiv This death of Christ therfore looke on as the very pledge of Gods loue towards thee. 1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxix. sig. F7 All men looke on him as a common father. 1658 T. Tillam Lasher proved Liar 27 Looking on him to be a publick Minister of State. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 606 So they looked on him as a dead man. 1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata i. xi. 145 The Picts..looking on the Southern Britains as a degenerate Race, more than half Romans. 1825 S. De Renzy Life, Love, & Politics I. iv. 90 I looked on him to be a character too bluntly honest, to take any pleasure in the folly of seriously frightening a poor country novice. 1892 Monthly Packet Mar. 316 Every one..looked on victory as certain. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child i. v. 63 This Kid Mitchell was looked on as a coming champ in those days. 1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. 15 Many citizens..prefer to look on adult homosexuality as a matter of private taste. 2011 S. Montefiore Mermaid Garden viii. 89 He'll look on you as a child whether you're in your best dress or your usual grubby one. 3. intransitive. To regard with favour; to hold in esteem; to respect. Cf. to look upon —— at Phrasal verbs 2. Now rare (English regional in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > favour > win favour with [verb (transitive)] > favour to let well ofc1330 favour1340 to take, accept, receive in greec1374 likea1393 smilec1400 to take agreea1425 agreec1450 to fawn on, upon1477 to bear good mind toa1516 to look upon ——c1515 to look on ——1540 vouchsafe1582 conceit1589 relish1594 to look to ——1611 impatronize1629 aspect1663 sympathize1828 to put one's money on1847 1540 T. Elyot Def. Good Women sig. B.iii But vertue, who is not so commonlye seene, and of soo many men loked on, is nowe of dyuerse men so peruersely estemed, that it is of some called foly. 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. vii. 22 I am not lookt on in the world. 1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 616 Father Petre is now at Rome, but is not much lookt on there. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. vi. li. 246 He'd be a fine husband for anybody..so looked-on an' so cliver as he is. 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 137 Looked on, respected. ‘He's a man very much looked on.’ to look on In later use usually with at. In earlier use the object of vision was chiefly introduced with on, upon, but in later use to look on, to look upon are in this sense either archaic, or include the notion of mental activity and are partly merged with sense 4a(a); more specialized uses are treated at to look on —— at Phrasal verbs 2, to look upon —— at Phrasal verbs 2.extracted from lookv.to look at (also †on, upon) (a) to look at (also †on, upon): (as postmodifying clause following an adjective such as fair, nice, ugly, etc.): with respect to appearance.not to be much to look at: see much pron. and n. 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > be ashamed [verb (intransitive)] > be embarrassed to look ateOE not to know which way (also where) to look1566 to sink through the floor1839 to have (get, etc.) egg on one's face1964 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) ii. iv. 43 Seo burg wæs getimbred an fildum lande.., & heo wæs swiþe fæger an to locianne. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. vi. 251 Þonne wyrð heo [sc. the sea] swiðe hraðe ungladu, þeah heo ær gladu wære on to locienne. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3585 Crist iss..luffsumm onn to lokenn. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 23228 (MED) Fell dragons and tades bath þat ar apon to lok ful lath. ?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. lxxxv. f. 58 (MED) Þan is þis an vgli ymage for to loken vpon. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. v. 6 Euen thus are they (yt dwell vpon the whole earth) to loke vpon. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 26v Large on to loke louely of shap. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xii. 11 I know that thou art a faire woman to looke vpon. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata ix. 314 What is large, procere, goodly, and beautiful to look on. 1740 A. Baxter Matho I. v. 316 A clear whitish Maggot, not unpleasant to look at. 1776 J. Kennedy Treat. Planting xi. 252 They will grow very large, and fine to look at, but will not be so high-flavoured. 1838 Maritime Scraps 103 So clean, and round, and plump, and fat, So nice to look at, and all that. 1876 London Society Jan. 54/1 She is coarse and ugly to look at; but this is not all, for she is malicious and deceiving. 1913 ‘A. Hallard’ tr. ‘P. de Coulevain’ Amer. Nobility ii. iii. 241 Oh, but it is awful to look at! 1976 Ebony Oct. 146 (caption) The printed crepe-de-chine jumpsuit is as easy to wear as it is lovely to look at. 2003 Dreamwatch Aug. 68/1 This latest effort from the House of Mouse is both nice to look at and enjoyable to watch. < as lemmas |
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