| 单词 | seek |
| 释义 | seek (once / 50 pages) vn If you seek an accordion player for your new polka band, it means you are looking for a band mate. When you seek something, you try to find it. It's possible to seek fame, or snacks, or a college degree, or approval — as long as you're looking for it, or longing for it, you're seeking it. The origins of the word seek go back to the Latin word sagire, which means "to perceive keenly by scent." Imagine a dog tracking a rabbit, sniffing the ground and following its scent, and you'll know exactly what it means to seek something. WORD FAMILYseek: seeker, seeking, seeks+/seeker: seekers, self-seeker/seeking: seekings, self-seeking USAGE EXAMPLES“The amendment seeks to strengthen each of these needs while maintaining the basic core of OCE’s functions.” Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The project also seeks to correlate those outcomes with 123 social and economic factors such as government spending, proficiency in reading and rates of incarceration. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Andre is indignant about the way he is treated, but urges his angry family to let him seek justice through the court. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) 1v try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of Syn|Hypo look for, search drag, dredge search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost fingersearch for on the computer fumble, gropefeel about uncertainly or blindly divinesearch by divining, as if with a rod browse, surflook around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular leave no stone unturnedsearch thoroughly and exhaustively huntseek, search for gatherlook for (food) in nature wanthunt or look for; want for a particular reason scourexamine minutely seek outlook for a specific person or thing go after, pursue, quest after, quest forgo in search of or hunt for angle, fishseek indirectly grubsearch about busily feelgrope or feel in search of something browse, shopshop around; not necessarily buying grope for, scrabblefeel searchingly dowseuse a divining rod in search of underground water or metal shelllook for and collect shells by the seashore comparison-shopcompare prices for a given item antiqueshop for antiques window-shopexamine the shop windows; shop with the eyes only 2v try to get or reach seek a position seek an education seek happiness Hypo|Hyper bid make a serious effort to attain something questmake a search (for) desire, want feel or have a desire for; want strongly 3v go to or towards a liquid seeks its own level Hyper go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 4v inquire for seek directions from a local Hyper request inquire for (information) 5v make an effort or attempt He sought to improve himself She always seeks to do good in the world Syn|Hypo|Hyper assay, attempt, essay, try pick up the gauntlet, take a dare be dared to do something and attempt it fight, strugglemake a strenuous or labored effort give it a try, have a gomake an attempt at something gropesearch blindly or uncertainly endeavor, endeavour, striveattempt by employing effort give it a try, give it a whirltry adventure, chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chancestake a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome lay on the line, put on the line, riskexpose to a chance of loss or damage struggleto exert strenuous effort against opposition drive, labor, labour, push, tugstrive and make an effort to reach a goal flounderbehave awkwardly; have difficulties be at pains, take painstry very hard to do something buckto strive with determination go for brokerisk everything in one big effort luck it, luck throughact by relying on one's luck adventure, hazard, jeopardize, stake, ventureput at risk bell the cattake a risk; perform a daring act act, move perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) 6n the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk Hyper motion, movement a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
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