| 单词 | explore |
| 释义 | explore (once / 173 pages) 1v 2v Explore is a verb that means "to travel in or through." You might explore an island, a European city, or the rooms of an unfamiliar house. The Latin root of explore is explorare, meaning "investigate or search out." When you explore a new place, you want to see interesting things and get to know its people. Whenever you delve into something, or investigate it, you explore it. You can even explore an interest, like when you explore African art, or explore an idea or tendency in order to understand it — you can explore your fear of snakes to try to get over it. WORD FAMILYexplore: exploration, explorative, exploratory, explored, explorer, explores, exploring, re-explore+/exploration: explorations/explorative: exploratively, nonexplorative, unexplorative/exploratory: nonexploratory, unexploratory/explored: unexplored/explorer: explorers USAGE EXAMPLESThe films explored Hull's history, from the Blitz to sporting triumphs. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) In this piece, originally published Sept. 1, columnist Nancy Kaffer explored potential conflicts related to a substantial philanthropic donation to fund Kalamazoo city government. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Spurning the American tendency to treat every ailment with medication, he instead explored the body’s ability to heal itself. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v travel to or penetrate into explore unknown territory in biology Hypo|Hyper pioneer open up and explore a new area cave, spelunkexplore natural caves mapexplore or survey for the purpose of making a map investigate, look into investigate scientifically 2v inquire into 2Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness Syn|Hypo|Hyper research, search prospect explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals googlesearch the internet (for information) using the Google search engine mapquestsearch for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program re-exploreexplore anew beat about, cast about, cast aroundsearch anxiously investigate, look into investigate scientifically 1v examine minutely Hypo|Hyper plumb examine thoroughly and in great depth diagnose, name determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis 2v examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes Hypo|Hyper put out feelers make some preliminary investigations or test the waters diagnose subject to a medical analysis |
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