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单词 to look sharp
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to look sharp

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to look sharp.
a. To keep watch vigilantly; to be on the lookout.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > observe or watch
spya1400
wait1399
espyc1405
watch1487
gate?1590
to look sharp1680
stag1796
to keep one's eyes peeled1844
to skin one's eyes1851
to peel one's eyes1875
to take sights1934
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > be vigilant or on one's guard [verb (intransitive)]
watcha1225
warea1325
bewarea1400
keepc1400
waitc1400
lay good waitc1440
to lie in great waitc1440
to look out?1553
to look about1599
awake1602
advigilate1623
to keep an eye open1651
perdue1656
to look sharp1680
waken1682
tout1699
to keep a sharp look-out1827
to keep one's weather-eye open1829
to keep (also have) an eye out1833
to keep one's eyes peeled1844
to watch out1845
to skin one's eyes1851
to have (also keep) one's eye on the ball1937
to watch one's back1949
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry
hiec1250
skelta1400
hasty?a1425
hasten1534
festinate1652
to look sharp1680
to make play1799
hurry-scurry1809
to tumble up1826
crowd1838
rush1859
hurry1871
to get a move on1888
hurry and scurry1889
to buck up1890
to get a hump on1892
to get a wiggle on1896
to shake a leg1904
to smack it about1914
flurry1917
to step on it (her)1923
to make it snappy1926
jildi1930
to get an iggri on1946
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1675 W. Mercer Moderate Caualier 26 A Jury, whose Fore-man Was Mr. Reason, next him..was Mr. Look-sharp.]
1680 M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras'd 34 Then looking sharp, cag'd like a Parrot, I spy thy Hawks-bill in the Garret.
1725 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking (ed. 6) III. liv. 283 It is time for us then to look sharp, to observe every Period.
1788 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 69 At nine o'clock we began to look sharp for our house.
1803 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1804) VII. 128 Mr. Robson will attend to the old peers..while Mr. Faulder will look sharp after the fortune-hunters.
1890 Harper's Mag. July 213/1 She..must have looked sharp to see him at all.
1912 Archit. Rev. July 76/1 At Coblenz the mountains begin and I looked sharp for the first castle.
1963 Boys' Life May 33/4 Sam looked sharp to the right. Through the distant trees the lights of two cars could be seen bobbing into the night.
2000 F. Anderson Crucible of War (2001) lxii. 598 The success of their staple crops of rice and indigo freed them from the necessity of looking sharp for supplementary sources of wealth.
b. colloquial. To move or act quickly or energetically; to stir oneself. Usually in imperative. Cf. to look smart at smart adj. Phrases 1, to look lively at lively adj. and n. Phrases, to look alive at alive adj. Phrases 5.
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1835 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 25/1 Look sharp, Dick, for I'm late for the Eagle.
1890 G. M. Fenn Double Knot I. viii. 191 You'd better look sharp,..they're all ready and waiting.
1917 Everybody's Mag. Nov. 152/2 ‘Pint o' bitters,’ he called, ‘and look sharp, please. I want to drink two of them if I've time.’
1966 Farmer wants Wife (Farmers Weekly Farm Women's Club) 45 ‘Go and fetch a can of petrol and look sharp’ were the orders of one day.
2007 S. Lawrence Those Girls vi. 45 For goodness' sake, hurry up and take your seats... And look sharp—Mrs. Bennett is waiting to address the school.
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