| 单词 | pursuing |
| 释义 | pursuing (once / 507 pages) adj When someone is described as pursuing, they are following or chasing another person (or thing) with the intent to catch. The pursuing player in a game of "tag" is "it," or the one doing the chasing. During a traditional English fox hunt, the barking dogs are the pursing animals, and the foxes are the ones being hunted. And during a typical cops-and-robbers chase, the pursuing officers are the ones in the police car with the siren blaring, racing after the getaway car. Pursuing and its related verb pursue come from the Latin prosequi, "follow or follow after." WORD FAMILYpursue: pursuance, pursuant, pursued, pursuer, pursues, pursuing, pursuit+/pursuant: pursuantly/pursuer: pursuers/pursuit: pursuits USAGE EXAMPLESSecurity Council resolutions ban the North from pursuing its missile program. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) A little more than an hour later an officer spotted the stolen car, called for backup, and began pursuing the suspects. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Mr. Christopher began his acting career in Broadway and Off Broadway productions in New York before pursuing television work in Los Angeles. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) adj following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit the fox fled from the pursuing hounds listened for the hounds' pursuing bark Syn following going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction |
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