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单词 look out
释义 look out
verb
Etymology: Middle English loken out, from looken, loken to look + out
intransitive verb
1. : to gaze from within something (as a building) to the outside : put one's head out of a window or similar aperture
 < looked out at the window >
2. archaic : to venture out : make a brief excursion
3.
 a. : to be on the lookout or the watch (as against some danger) : exercise vigilance : be on guard
  < there's danger ahead. Look out >
  — often used with following for
  < the good sailor will look out for shoals >
 b. : to watch diligently (as for a person) : gaze about in search : be on the alert (as for the presence of something) — used with following for
  < look out for some old andirons when you visit the antique shop >
  < the mole-rats … which I had been urged to look out for and to collect — Douglas Carruthers >
 c. : to take care or be concerned with the welfare (as of a person) — used with following for
  < look out for the baby while I go shopping >
  < the female looks out for the young >
4. obsolete : to show itself : appear
 < the business of this man looks out of him — Shakespeare >
5. : to have or provide an outlook
 < the little room which looks out on the … yew hedge — Patricia Wingfield >
 < homes and churches looking out on the placid village green — Budd Schulberg >
transitive verb
chiefly Britain : to search for or find by using the eyes : look up
 < I have some letters of his … I'll look them out — Clemence Dane >
 < discover how few words I need to look out — O.W.Holmes †1935 >
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