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单词 to look into
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to look into ——
to look into ——
1. intransitive. To heed, pay attention to, concern oneself with. Obsolete. [After post-classical Latin respicere in (Vulgate).]
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > take notice of, heed [verb (transitive)]
yemec897
understandc1000
beseea1225
heeda1225
bihedec1250
tentc1330
to look into ——c1350
rewardc1350
undertakea1382
considerc1385
recorda1393
behold?a1400
receivea1425
advertc1425
attend1432
advertise?a1439
regard1526
respect1543
eye?c1550
mind1559
panse1559
to take knowledge of1566
to consider of1569
suspect1590
pass1609
matter1652
watch1676
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > take notice of, heed [verb (transitive)] > look into, consider
lookOE
devisec1320
to look into ——c1350
screw1631
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) ci. 18 (MED) He loked in-to [L. respexit in] þe oreison of þe meke, and he ne despised nouȝt her praier.
a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 56 He lokede in to [L. respexit in] the preiere of meeke men.
a1500 St. Brendan's Confession (Cambr.) l. 247 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 175 46 (MED) I shulde haue lokid into þe goodnesse of þe and of þi werkis..wt worship and reuerens, but I dede it not.
2. intransitive.
a. To direct one's gaze to the interior of; to examine the inside of; to look at from outside. Also: to gaze intently or deeply at.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14333 (MED) Þe graue lid awey þei kist, And ihesus loked into þe chest.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 1227 He sat and loked in to a strete.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xvi. f. xciv By lokyng into the secrete corners of the mannes harte.
1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo ii. f. 40v Stand on a Moulehill to looke into a mustarde pot.
1616 T. Adams Divine Herball iii. 68 Let him looke into this Garden for Hysop, Humility of Spirit.
1665 N. Hodges Vindiciæ Medicinæ & Medicorum v. 132 This simple Quack looking into the Patients mouth.
1730 E. Wright Some Observ. France, Italy, &c. II. 430 The Figure sits in an inclining Posture, as looking into a Bason or Pond just below it.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 48 He..had look'd into the basket and seen the patès which the Chevalier was selling.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 99 The fisherman, looking into the lake saw in it fish of different colours.
1885 M. J. Franc Into Light viii. 56 Looking into the glowing cavernous depths of the fire.
1930 Pop. Sci. Jan. 57/3 (caption) Full grown, it [sc. a baby giraffe] will be able to look into a second-story window.
1950 R. Macdonald Drowning Pool i. 8 I tossed the letter on the desk-top between us, and looked into her face.
2001 R. Nicoll White Male Heart (2002) 141 She looked into her risotto.
b. To consult (a book, etc.), esp. cursorily. Cf. to look through —— 2 at Phrasal verbs 2.
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society > communication > reading > [verb] > to browse rapidly or omit passages
overrunOE
skip1526
to glance over1582
to look inside ——1591
to look into ——1624
to glance through1865
1624 F. Texeda Scrutamini Scripturas 11 Such a Papist as neuer lookt into the Bible, must needs be ignorant and indiscreet.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 336 Not only that the Scriptures are the Mount,..but that they may not be look'd into.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 47. ⁋5 I so far observed his Counsel, that I looked into Shakespear.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xvii. 299 To be convinced of this Truth, you need only look into Thucydides.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 27 With such feelings, both parties looked into the chronicles of the middle ages. Both readily found what they sought.
1884 Notes & Queries 29 Nov. 426/2 I have looked into several books that treat of popular customs.
1963 J. Ciardi Dialogue with Audience i. 32 Have you ever looked into a pedigree book? I assume this to be a pure-bred bantam.
2002 M. van Tielhof ‘Mother of all Trades’ i. 38 Anyone who has ever looked into a book on demography in early modern times knows that families in which more than a few sons reached adulthood were rare.
3. intransitive. To examine or investigate (a matter, subject, issue, etc.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > investigate, inspect [verb (intransitive)]
inquirec1330
aska1382
ensearch1382
questiona1500
investigate?1520
vestigatea1561
to look into ——1561
perpend1568
mouse1575
rake1603
undergo1605
fathom1607
ravel1618
examine1628
inquisition1644
to cast abouta1676
inspect1703
sound1793
disquisitea1823
look-see1862
to cast about one1867
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > investigate, examine [verb (transitive)]
underseekc897
speerc900
lookeOE
askOE
seeOE
teem witnessc1200
seeka1300
fand13..
inquirec1300
undergoc1315
visit1338
pursuea1382
searcha1382
examinec1384
assay1387
ensearchc1400
vesteyea1425
to have in waitc1440
perpend1447
to bring witnessc1475
vey1512
investigate?1520
recounta1530
to call into (also in) question1534
finger1546
rip1549
sight1556
vestigatea1561
to look into ——1561
require1563
descry?1567
sound1579
question1590
resolve1593
surview1601
undersearch1609
sift1611
disquire1621
indagate1623
inspect1623
pierce1640
shrive1647
in-looka1649
probe1649
incern1656
quaeritate1657
inquisite1674
reconnoitre1740
explore1774
to bring to book1786
look-see1867
scrutate1882
to shake down1915
sleuth1939
screen1942
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. v. f. 6v They that haue digested, yea or but tasted the liberall artes,..do procede much further to looke into [L. ad introspicienda] the secretes of Gods wisedome.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ix. sig. F5 Those imperfections..you by the daily mending of your mind haue of late bin able to looke into them, which before you could not discerne.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. iii. 86 Let vs now looke into the temperature of Panama & all that coast.
1677 Z. Babington Advice to Grand Jurors 124 Not strictly looking into the matter and form, aggravations and circumstances of the Fact.
1731 T. Gurdon Hist. High Court Parl. I. Pref. p. xvii The farther I looked into our ancient Constitution, the more I found Parliaments to be the main Hinge upon which the Government moved regularly.
1762 tr. Authentic Acct. Proc. Holland & West-Friezeland 33 The Director and Council.., from the Teeth outwards, promised, and undertook to look into this Matter.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 94 Thither came The King's own leech to look into his hurt.
1879 T. H. Huxley Hume vi. 117 It is needful to look narrowly into the propositions here laid down.
1890 A. Gissing Village Hampden III. i. 15 Read your newspapers; look into the rights of things.
1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest ii. 20 Maybe. But the other angle has got to be looked into too—the political end.
1965 G. Jackson Let. 3 Oct. in Soledad Brother (1971) 89 Be sure to look into the course on speed reading.
2005 Independent 27 Jan. (Review section) 4/2 Even as we speak there are firms of quantity surveyors looking into ways of lashing up a modern house for just 60 grand.
4. intransitive. To enter (a room, building, etc.) for the purpose of seeing someone or something.
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society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (transitive)] > informally
to look into ——1596
to look ina1616
1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 63 Let him but looke into a vawting house [i.e. a brothel], he shall play his tricks without charges.
1632 T. Hooker Soules Prepar. for Christ 123 If a great person, especially a Prince or Monarch, did looke into a poore mans house, or come to visit a man in prison, what would the world say?
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 296 It is said..that His Majesty deigned to look into the tennis court.
1892 A. K. H. Boyd Twenty-five Years St. Andrews II. xvii. 54 I pervaded Westminster Hall and looked into most of the Courts.
1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep ii. 27 I looked into the bar for a word with the old fowlers.
2010 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 7 Feb. 14 Out of interest, we looked into the hotel a few days later, and it was virtually empty.
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