| 单词 | seek |
| 释义 | seek I. transitive verb 1. obsolete < of us must Pompey presently be sought, or else he seeks out us — Shakespeare > 2. < for an hour everyone seeks the shade to rest — Richard Roche > < departed for Rome which at that time was sought by American painters and sculptors — Charles de Kay > 3. a. (1) < if management does decide to seek the man within the ranks of the company — Bruce Payne > < seeking out keymen and awarding them fellowships — Bulletin of Meharry Medical College > (2) < water seeks its own level > < rockets designed to seek out and destroy with uncanny accuracy enemy bombers — H.W.Baldwin > b. < not all research is confined to seeking new chemicals — Monsanto Chemical Co. Annual Report > < seek the truth > 4. < his advice was sought by many of the party's leaders — H.J.Howland > 5. < never held public office, nor did he ever seek it — W.C.Ford > < teach the child to seek the good and to avoid the bad — Better Homes & Gardens > < seek fame and fortune > 6. < all governments, of course, seek to keep the bulk of their people contented — D.M.Potter > 7. archaic < have I sought every country far and near — Shakespeare > intransitive verb 1. < seeking along the shelf for a volume — G.B.Shaw > 2. archaic < wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude — John Milton > 3. archaic < to whom I seek for my medicine — Geoffrey Chaucer > 4. a. < the connection between dress and war is not far to seek — Virginia Woolf > b. archaic < for the details of our itinerary, I am all to seek — R.L.Stevenson > c. archaic < leave us wholly to seek in the art of political wagering — Jonathan Swift > 5. Synonyms: < poor health compelled Webb to seek some more healthful climate — C.W.Mitman > < the Poles have always sought the centers of heavy industry — American Guide Series: New York State > < gaze sought the horizon — Ellen Glasgow > < those who seek the harvest of the sea — Stuart Cloete > < marched out to seek battle — C.H.Lanza > search usually implies a thorough, careful, sustained seeking or examining of a person, place, or thing < detectives search the arrested suspect > < the summer was spent searching the Ozark region for the fabled seven cities — R.A.Billington > < search the house from top to bottom for a lost ring > hunt implies a searching or questing after something elusive or well hidden and quite hard to find < hunt for a lost collar button > < land speculators … reaped a quick fortune, and hunted for new bonanzas — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < the strength to hunt out logical difficulties, antinomies, or paradoxes in our own views — M.R.Cohen > rummage implies the making of a usually sustained or thorough search or investigation in which things are disarranged, dislodged, or moved around < rummaged among the papers that cluttered up the high, old-fashioned desk — Hartley Howard > < rummaged in the packs and announced gleefully that their contents were quite dry — John Buchan > ransack suggests a thorough search, especially of a container, room, or building, often done forcefully and with resulting disorder and sometimes for something stolen or for something to be pillaged or looted < each man ransacked his chest or seabag and unearthed trinkets of various kinds — H.A.Chippendale > < St. John's Church … was ill-attended in the reaction following the Revolution, and was ransacked during the War of 1812 — American Guide Series: Virginia > scour means to make a very diligent search of (an area) omitting no part or section < scoured the coppices and woods and old quarries, so long as a blackberry was to be found — D.H.Lawrence > < while scouring the countryside for fresh mounts — American Guide Series: Ind. > comb implies an examination, usually of territory, as thoroughgoing as the action of a fine comb passing through hair < state policemen combing the county for the escaped prisoners > < comb London's teeming millions for him — Dorothy Sayers > < comb the literature of mythology carefully — Martin Gardner > ferret (out) suggests searching out with keen crafty or shrewd, relentless determination < did remove the bulk of the tribe, but they could not ferret out every Indian — A.W.Long > < spent hours trying to ferret out the true reasons for the crime > • - seek after II. obsolete |
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