| 单词 | to turn the searchlight on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto turn the searchlight on 2. Something likened to a searchlight in throwing a powerful or revealing light on a subject. Used with reference to something or someone being exposed to intense scrutiny or subjected to detailed investigation. Frequently in to turn the searchlight on and variants. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [noun] examininga1325 examinationa1450 examine1494 examen1502 scanning1560 scrutation1593 scrutiny1604 pervestigation1610 microscope1671 introspectiona1676 scan1706 bolting1771 conning1823 grubbing1831 vivisection1880 searchlight1891 1891 New Rev. Nov. 467 You, my ingenuous sophist..are throwing the search-light of reason along the path it [sc. the phrase ‘will to live’] indicates. 1922 Current Hist. Sept. (Front advertising section) His work turns a revealing searchlight on a most vital period of our nation's history. 1987 P. Wright & P. Greengrass Spycatcher xxii. 342 The 1970s were to be the years of reckoning, when the secret armies of the West were finally and painfully exposed to the searing searchlight of publicity. 2004 Guardian (Nexis) 7 Dec. (Educ. section) 16 Suddenly Whitehall has trained a searchlight on further education, and it's making colleges nervous. < as lemmas |
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