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单词 look
释义 look
I. \ˈlu̇k\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English looken, loken, from Old English lōcian; akin to Middle Dutch loeken to look, Old Saxon lōcōn
transitive verb
1. : to make sure or take care (that something is done)
 < censor to look that no man lived idly — Edward Gee >
2. : to ascertain by the use of one's eyes
 < I will look what time the train starts >
3.
 a. : to exercise the power of vision upon : examine, observe, perceive
 b. archaic : to look up
  < if I looked a word today — John Adams >
 c. dialect : to count (as sheep) especially to determine whether any have strayed
4. archaic : to search for : seek
 < at her leisure hours she looks goose eggs — Samuel Johnson >
5. : expect
 < I never look to have a mistress that I shall love half as well — Henry Brooke >
6. dialect : to pick over
 < she looked the spinach >
7. archaic : to influence or bring into a place or condition by the exercise of the power of vision
 < thou has look'd thyself into my grace — Shakespeare >
8. : to express by use of the eyes or by an expression of the countenance
 < not an eye to look comfort to you — Douglas Jerrold >
 < the friar looked his surprise — Robert Brennan >
9. : to have an appearance that befits or accords with
 < the actors … looked the parts they were called upon to play — Linguaphone Magazine >
 < he looked a typical sturdy John Bull — C.H.Driver >
 < she looked her age >
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to exercise the power of vision
  < he looks >
  < look before you leap >
  — used in the imperative as an interjection especially to call attention
  < look, here he comes >
 b. : to exercise this power in a particular direction : direct the eyes or one's attention upon someone or something
  < from my elevated station I looked down — Thomas De Quincey >
  < looked from one to the other — Carson McCullers >
  < looked abroad for their inspiration — O. Elfrida Saunders >
  < look at the map >
  < if we look at the successful serious novels of the last decade — Lionel Trilling >
 c. : to direct the eyes in a manner indicative of a specified feeling
  < looked sadly upon him >
2. : to have the appearance of being : appear to the eye : seem
 < her … lips looked parched and unnatural — Ellen Glasgow >
 < his face looked almost gray — T.B.Costain >
 < it looks as if … varnishes will meet very severe competition during the coming year — C.L.Boltz >
 < it begins to look as though the social scientist … is actually a dialectician — R.M.Weaver >
3.
 a. : to have a specified direction : afford a specified outlook : open on or into something
  < a village that looked across the river — Ernest Hemingway >
  < the little terrace which looked seaward — John Buchan >
 b. : to face or turn in a specific direction
  < their nostrils … look downwards — T.H.Huxley >
4. : to gaze in wonder or surprise : stare
 < you should have seen them look >
5. : to show a tendency : to tend or point in a specific direction
 < the evidence looks to acquittal >
Synonyms: see expect, see

- look after
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- look alive
- look at
- look black
- look down one's nose
- look for
- look forth
- look forward
- look here
- look in the eye
- look into
- look like
- look of
- look on
- look the other way
- look through
- look to
- look toward
- look upon
- look up to
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from looken to look
1.
 a. : the act of looking : the direction of the eyes toward something in order to see it
 b. : a deliberate act of looking : glance
  < darted a quick look at me — Kenneth Roberts >
  < he was hers for a look or the speaking of a word — Ethel Wilson >
 c. : an examination of something with or as if with the eyes : the direction of one's attention toward something
  < his final look at the present regime — J.K.Fairbank >
  < a brief look at the origins and development of … a great liberating movement — M.D.Geismar >
2.
 a. : the appearance or expression of the countenance
  < a round face carrying a look of Alpine simplicity — Osbert Sitwell >
  < wearing an ugly look on his face — F.B.Gipson >
 b. : the appearance of a person; especially : an attractive or healthy appearance — usually used in plural
  < she's lost what looks she ever had — Ellen Glasgow >
3. : the state or form in which something appears and which is often indicative of its nature or quality
 < have a manufactured look — A.M.Young >
 < the rough-hewn rural look of the conventional academy — J.P.Marquand >
4. : a distance usually encompassed by a single act of looking
 < a long look of river — S.H.Holbrook >
Synonyms: see appearance
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