| 单词 | to look up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto look up to look up 1. intransitive. a. To raise the eyes, turn the face upward. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look upwards to look upeOE uplooka1300 to lift (up) one's eyes, brow, face, visagea1400 upgaze1855 periscope1933 eOE Prose Charm: Against Elf-Sickness (Royal 12 D.xvii) in G. Storms Anglo-Saxon Magic (1948) 224 Gif hit biþ wæpnedman and locað up þonne þu hine ærest sceawast..þone mon þu meaht gelacnian. OE Blickling Homilies 189 Locode þa up wið Simones. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17423 He shollde sone lokenn upp. O þatt brasene neddre. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 173 Ðanne stondeð þo wreches..and lokeð up and dun and al abuten. a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 128 Ne deme ðe noȝ[t] wurdi [emended in ed. to wurði] ðat tu dure loken Up to ðe heuene ward. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21393 Constantin..lok up..He sagh þar cristis cros ful bright. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Sir Thopas (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 8 Approche neer, and looke vp myrily. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xl. 12 My synnes haue taken soch holde vpon me, that I am not able to loke vp. 1566 T. Becon New Postil i. f. 9 When these thynges begyn to come to passe, loke vp, and lyft vp your heades, be of good chere, and see that ye be mery. 1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 157 As hee loked vp a little, he espyed the poore man commyng on foote thitherward. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles ii. 60 How dares [sic] the plants looke vp to heauen, From whence they haue their nourishment? View more context for this quotation 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 231. ⁋2 The poor Cur looked up and wagged his Tail. 1741 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 602/1 His friend look'd up, well pleas'd no doubt. 1782 W. Cowper tr. V. Bourne Jack Daw in W. Cowper Poems 337 Look up—your brains begin to swim. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. iii. 105 She would still look up..with such doleful expression. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 112 And he look'd up. There stood a maiden near. 1892 Longman's Mag. Jan. 247 She looked up from her writing. 1916 Munsey's Mag. July 289/2 She looked up over her spectacles, as Laura entered. 1963 ‘J. le Carré’ Spy who came in from Cold (1964) iv. 30 Miss Crail looked up sharply from her card index. 2012 D. Park Light of Amsterdam iii. 76 They looked up to see an illuminated Santa Claus climbing the chimney. b. to look up to (occasionally †at). (a) To raise one's eyes towards (God, heaven, etc.) in supplication or adoration. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look up to look up to1496 1496 Rote or Myrour Consolacyon & Conforte (de Worde) sig. Cvii After this grete punysshement he loked vp to heuen with the syght of his soule askynge mercy of god. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 252v We should learne to tremble at his iudgement, & reuerently to loke vp to his mercie. 1587 E. Hake Oration conteyning Expostulation sig. A4 In these earthly descending bodies there are implanted heauenly ascending myndes, wherewith you might looke vp to your maker. 1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 7 in Sylua Syluarum Let vs looke vp to God, and euery man reforme his owne wayes. 1673 J. Bunyan Def. Doctr. Justif. 50 This Man's Righteousness is made over to him, that looks up to him for Life. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 261 I had..been moved my self to look up to Heaven, and to seek to the Hand that had brought me there. 1794 C. Pigott Female Jockey Club 141 Are these the patriots, to whom England was to look up for Salvation? 1849 G. B. Cheever Hill Diffic. ii. 177 The more you are in the habit of looking up to God before you go to church, the more you will see of God in the preacher. 1892 W. R. Alger Sources of Consol. ii. 141 Affectionate and humble suppliants..look up to heaven. 1922 I. T. Jones Is there God? ii. 56 Without a petition upon his lips, merely with a yearning soul, he looks up to God. 2004 C. Samartin Broken Paradise (2007) ii. 13 The depiction of Jesus hanging with his arms outstretched as he looked up to heaven, asking God to forgive all the sinners. (b) To have a great deal of respect for, to admire, venerate. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [verb (transitive)] followOE honourc1275 regard1526 to take off one's hat1571 respect1576 to see unto ——1579 suspect1590 honestate1623 defer1686 consider1692 to look up to1719 to have no (a lot of, etc.) time for1938 1719 Free-thinker No. 157. 2 These Three Ladies..look up to him, as their Patron and Defender. 1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances III. 100 The rest seem to look up at you, as of an higher Order of Intelligence. 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 i. 210 Sweden looks up to British agriculture as the model for imitation. 1881 S. R. Gardiner & J. B. Mullinger Introd. Study Eng. Hist. i. x. 178 In Pitt England had at last found the man to whom it could look up. 1921 E. von Arnim Vera iv. 38 He had Lucy and her aunt as trusting friends who looked up to him, who had no doubts of him and no criticisms. 1958 Life 14 Apr. 127/1 Although Hitler and his Nazis had been wiped out years before, we still looked up to them as the meanest bops in history. 2006 V. Vinge Rainbow's End xv. 164 Amazing the thrill it was to have someone look up to him. 2. transitive. a. To seek, search for. Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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 1468 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 399 Þe obligacion of the Bisshop of Norwychys oblygacion, I neuer sye it þat I remembre, wherfore I wolde and prey my modre to loke it vp. 1472 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 447 I..praye yow to loke vppe my Temple off Glasse, and sende it me by the berer heroff. 1589 J. Bate Portraiture of Hypocrisie 29 A vigilant shephearde, that hath care to look vp the lost sheepe of Israel. 1636 Earl of Manchester in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 276 It will be best for every one to..look up the exemptions they have. 1669 in Plymouth Col. Rec. (1856) V. 28 The Court haue ordered that..the said Winge be required to looke vp the said Indian, and bringe him..before some one of the majestrates. 1788 Sessions Papers 9 Jan. 159/1 My witnesses are not come, and I have not had an opportunity to look them up. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 61 He was..a sort of boating nurse, who looked-up and trained the young oars. 1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough I. xxxvii. 278 Hearing of some rebels in the neighbourhood of Taunton, he sent a small party of Oxford's regiment to look them up. 1905 Secret Service 10 Nov. 27/2 ‘Where do you suppose they can have gone to?’ ‘We shall have to look them up.’ b. In early use: †to consult (a book, source of information, etc.) (obsolete). In later use: to search for (an item of information), or seek information concerning (a person or thing), in a book or database, on the internet, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > find in a book or paper looklOE to look out?1496 to turn to ——1568 to look upa1632 to turn up1710 to turn out1834 the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > find out by investigation [verb (transitive)] > by consulting sources looklOE seek?a1500 to look upa1632 consulta1634 trawl1906 scan1926 screen1942 a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) ii. sig. C2 I will look up some Writings, and return presently. 1692 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 396 They decided to look up it [sc. Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses].., to see what I said of the Presbyterians and Independents. 1865 J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. 458 I have only looked up the authorities nearest at hand. 1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind vi. 44 She had better look the definitions up at the beginning of the books of Euclid. 1890 G. M. Fenn Double Knot I. iii. 113 I have been looking up the Glens. Not a bad family, but a younger branch. 1913 A. J. Rees Merry Marauders ix. 149 'Strooth! he's looked up all our lines. 1976 ‘J. Charlton’ Remington Set iii. 18 I wish I had a book somewhere I could look up police procedure in. 2003 R. Herring Talking Cock 230 I looked it up on the Internet. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > be cheerful [verb (intransitive)] > become cheerful or cheer up cheer?1553 to look up1600 come1607 to cheer up1620 exhilarate1620 brighten1692 to come to1765 to come about1775 spurk1823 to hearten up1834 to buck up1844 chirk1844 pearten1851 to come around1853 to liven up1863 to chipper up1867 lighten1873 pep1910 to lighten up1911 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 113 My soueraigne Lord, cheere vp your selfe, look vp. View more context for this quotation 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 50 Then I'le looke vp. My fault is past. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. i. 214 Deare, looke vp. View more context for this quotation ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > show above the ground peep1593 to look up1657 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 98 If it be suffer'd to look up in a Garden, it will wind about all Herbs and Plants that have stalks. 5. intransitive. Nautical. Of a vessel: to hold closely to the intended course while sailing to windward. Frequently in to look up to windward. ΚΠ 1779 Proc. Court-martial on Trial Admiral Keppel 102/1 After the Red division had passed the rear of the enemy, when the division tacked, did not they look up to windward of the rear of the enemy? 1816 Naval Chron. 35 404 The ship drifted very fast..; and although she looked up near to the southeast, I readily saw there was no possibility of our weathering the Head. 1853 Cruise Challenger Life-boat 37 The main-lug was close reefed and set, and the boat looked up better. 1905 W. C. Russell Yarn Old Harbour Town (1906) ix. 228 She'll look up to windward, or hold her course when the Minorca is falling points off. 1964 Motor Boating Apr. 179/1 She won't look up to windward and the competition is slipping over the horizon. 1970 J. Leather Gaff Rig xiv. 203/1 It is a popular belief that a yawl's mizzen is only a steering sail to make her ‘look up into the wind’. 6. intransitive. In early use Stock Market: (of a commodity) to increase in value. Later more generally (chiefly in progressive tenses): to have a more favourable prospect; to improve. Often in business is looking up, things are looking up. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [verb (intransitive)] > improve or grow better betterOE goodOE risec1175 mend1546 meliorize1598 to mend one's hand1611 improve1642 meliorate1655 brighten1659 ameliorate1728 to look up1806 to tone up1881 raise1898 graduate1916 to shape up1938 1806 R. Cochrane Let. 6 Jan. in Papers of John Steele (1924) I. 461 One cause why it has been so low at this market was the scarsity of salt; our river is now full enough for Boats to run, I think the Article will look up. 1822 Examiner 17 Nov. 725/1 Foreign Securities are generally looking up. 1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 211 The Radicals are, to use a mercantile phrase, looking up. 1884 G. Allen Philistia I. xi. 303 Trade is looking up. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 9/1 Industrial affairs among the Patlanders would seem to be looking up. 1967 Listener 7 Sept. 316/2 Things are looking up on ITV, except on farmer-and-B-film-haunted Southern. 2012 J. Charbonneau Skating on Edge xv. 184 Business was looking up. 7. transitive. colloquial. To visit or contact (a person), esp. for the first time or after loss of contact. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (transitive)] seekc893 visit13.. vizyc1425 to go to (also and) see1548 to call upon ——1604 calla1616 paya1616 vis1754 to look up1827 to visit with1850 1827 P. Egan Anecd. Turf 182 She ‘looked him up’ as if by accident. 1885 Illustr. London News 21 Feb. 208/3 So do look me up..and you will be most welcome. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xlix. 249 I'll try and come over to Paris again one of these days and I'll look you up. And then we won't 'alf go on the razzle. 1968 J. Sangster Touchfeather xiii. 140 He said if I was ever in Los Angeles to look him up. 2002 Outside Oct. 124/1 Adario suggests that I look them up before the pistoleiros do. 8. transitive. British colloquial. To watch closely; to keep an eye on. Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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 1855 A. Marsh Heiress of Haughton II. 52 Phillips is new to his place, remember;—you must look him up, if he is careless. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings II. 235 A pretty time o' day this is to deliver the letters!.. You letter-men want looking up. 1922 E. J. Evans Building Contracts xxiii. 105 Some foremen are not particularly strong on this point and need looking up occasionally. < as lemmas |
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