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单词 look up
释义 look up
verb
Etymology: Middle English looken up, from looken to look + up
intransitive verb
1. : to raise the eyes : turn the face upward
 < looked up from his book >
2. : to cheer up : take courage
 < cheer up yourself, look up — Shakespeare >
3. : to improve in prospects or condition
 < lived on the wife's income until business looked up again — George Santayana >
 < chances to control the Senate are looking up — T.R.Ybarra >
transitive verb
1. : to search for
 < required to look up the said Indian and bring him before some one of the magistrates — Plymouth Colonial Records >
 < look up the book and send it to me >
2.
 a. : to consult (as a reference work) in order to find out information about something
  < if you wish to do some further reading on this … subject, look up my book — W.J.Reilly >
 b. : to search for in a reference work
  < look up an unfamiliar word in the dictionary >
  < look this number up in the phone book >
 c. : to find out information about (as by consulting a reference work)
  < seized a timetable and looked up the trains — Gilbert Parker >
3. : to seek out; especially : to discover the whereabouts of and make a call on : visit briefly
 < if I'd known you were in the regiment … I'd have looked you up — James Jones >
 < I looked up a man in the Bureau of Internal Revenue — W.H.Upson >
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