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单词 run after
释义

run after

informal
1Persistently seek to acquire or attain: businesses which have spent years running after the baby boom market...
  • I really hope that my band will keep on being honest and playing the good music instead of turning into rats running after the rockstar lifestyle.
  • They have been largely ignored by the media, businesses and public institutions, which have spent years running after the baby-boom market.
1.1Seek the company of (a potential sexual or romantic partner): right from his school days, girls have been running after him...
  • This just isn't going to work out if you go running after other girls again.
  • I hope she will marry my son and stop him running after so many girls.
  • Right from his school days, so many girls have been running after him.

Synonyms

pursue, chase, make romantic advances to, flirt with
informal make up to, make eyes at, give the come-on to, come on to, be all over
North American informal vamp
dated set one's cap at
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