| 单词 | watch |
| 释义 | watch I. intransitive verb 1. a. < taught me how to watch and pray — Philip Doddridge > b. < could you not watch one hour — Mk 14:37 (Revised Standard Version) > c. < watched by his bedside until morning > 2. a. < watch jealously for any infringements of their rights — W.G.Hardy > b. < told him to watch outside and see that no one entered > 3. a. < seemed to feel her eyes on me all the time … watching, prying, judging — T.B.Costain > b. < the nation watched while stocks rose to staggering heights — American Guide Series: Minnesota > 4. of an otter 5. 6. of a buoy 7. 8. < watched for the signal > < watched for the train > transitive verb 1. < protected by a pair of high fences watched by armed guards — Lamp > 2. a. < says he's positive they're being watched by the police — Mary Deasy > < every eye was fixed aloft, watching the masts, which were expected every moment to go over the side — Frederick Marryat > b. < watch a bus approaching you — Bertrand Russell > < sat very still and watched him — Raymond Chandler > c. < people have a hard time getting to watch afternoon entertainment in this age — John Lardner > < watch a ball game > 3. a. < watched the baby while her mother shopped > b. < will watch their plane reservations and their weight, their hotel bookings and their manners — Harry Gordon > c. < as a performer I'd have to rest, watch my diet — Barbara B. Jamison > d. < watch that he doesn't fall > 4. < my lord shall never rest, I'll watch him tame — Shakespeare > 5. < an adversary of no common prowess was watching his time — T.B.Macaulay > < watched his opportunity > 6. < no one who has watched the course of history during the last generation can have felt doubt of its tendency — Henry Adams > 7. Britain Synonyms: see see • - watch it - watch one's step - watch over II. 1. a. < kept watch by his bed — Robert Browning > b. obsolete < fell into a sadness, then into a fast, thence to a watch — Shakespeare > c. d. < in a position to keep a close watch over events — R.P.Brooks > < wide open were the gates and no watch kept — Alfred Tennyson > e. < kept a careful watch over the prisoner > < kept a close watch over his son > 2. a. b. < the silent watches of the night > 3. a. < a yell from the bow watch — Vincent McHugh > b. archaic < as I did stand my watch upon the hill — Shakespeare > c. obsolete < his sentinel, the wolf, whose howl's his watch — Shakespeare > 4. a. < some of the watch came into the city — Mt 28:11 (Authorized Version) > b. < they fight! I will go call the watch — Shakespeare > c. usually capitalized < the Black Watch > 5. 6. a. (1) (2) < one by one, junior members of the watch reported that they had been properly relieved — K.M.Dodson > — see port watch, starboard watch (3) < everything was peaceful during his watch > b. < was the duty sergeant on the 4 P.M. to midnight watch for four years — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > 7. a. b. obsolete c. d. 8. < three of us were catfooting up a shallow draft to our watches — Ed Shearer > • - on the watch III. 1. < a watch mastiff > 2. < a watch pole > IV. 1. < a winter storm watch > 2. < the business grew on her watch > |
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