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单词 on the lookout
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on (also upon) the lookout
P2. on (also upon) the lookout: in a state of alertness or vigilance; on the alert, on watch.
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1755 J. Mills tr. J. B. L. Crevier Hist. Rom. Emperors II. v. 141 The public Treasurers, who always are on the look out, claimed her fortune as an escheat.
1760 S. Niles in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1837) 3rd Ser. VI. 161 They were upon the constant look-out and had two forts not far distant from thence.
1767 A. Brice in Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 67 I wished to put other people upon the look-out.
1771 J. Johnson Let. 4 Dec. in Joshua Johnson's Letterbk. (1979) 21 Molleson has chartered a ship and West & Hobson is on the lookout for one.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic i. 26 Anything new or peculiar..puts us upon the lookout to detect a possible absurdity.
1894 J. Knight D. Garrick ii. 21 He had been on the look-out for such information.
1926 Amer. Mercury Mar. 376/1 Modistes who..are on the look-out for new material behind the footlights.
1957 Billboard 26 Jan. 126/3 The plants..are on the lookout to cut costs wherever possible.
2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 55/2 Be on the lookout for Java and other products with a clean history.
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