| 单词 | discover |
| 释义 | dis·cover transitive verb 1. a. < discovered to his friend the sad state of his fortunes > < the novelist Emily Brontë had to discover these absurdities to the girl Emily — Mark Schorer > b. < God, when he discovered himself to the Israelites in Egypt — G.G.Coulton > < discovering himself to the lovely culprit as her adoring and magnanimous lover — T.L.Peacock > c. archaic < the very attempt towards pleasing everybody discovers a temper … often false and insincere — Edmund Burke > d. < at curtain wife and mother-in-law are discovered packing fragile articles into a barrel — Saul Bellow > e. archaic 2. 3. a. < discovered a large bay that now bears his name > < discovered the circulation of the blood > < discovered a number of writers who afterward gained wide recognition — Current Biography > b. < discovered arsenic in the patient's sleeping potion > < discover slights in the most innocent remarks — Joyce Cary > c. < discovered he had lost his purse > d. archaic e. archaic intransitive verb 1. < the rumor is false, as far as I can discover > 2. obsolete a. b. c. Synonyms: < a careful search at last discovered a small whirlpool — O.S.Nock > < we shall never know who first discovered how to pound up metal-bearing rock and heat it in the fire — Tom Wintringham > ascertain usually indicates purposively directed study and investigation to find the truth or discover the facts < scientific experiment has ascertained how many trials are needed by a rat to grasp the idea that by taking a particular turn or giving a special push he can penetrate from one chamber of his prison house to a more desireable one — C.H.Grandgent > < it has been ascertained by test borings that salt extends for 2200 feet below the surface — American Guide Series: Louisiana > determine may stress intent to decide or establish the truth definitively < the executor must assemble all available records to determine the decedent's assets and liabilities — Richard Gehman > < his duties for the next seven years included inspecting ships, including nearly all the largest vessels in the world, to determine seaworthiness and compliance with laws — Current Biography > detect may apply to discovering something well hidden, masked, or present only in trace quantities < it was he who first detected the small variations in hundreds of stars closely packed into the globular clusters — Leon Campbell > < the shadowy passages, often hard to detect — J.W.Schaefer > < still feebler is the final sonant, as in bid, bed, bad. So weak is it that few hearers would detect its complete omission — C.H.Grandgent > unearth indicates bringing to light something lost, hidden, or otherwise very hard to trace, often after intensive investigation < and the Index of Design division of the project has unearthed and reproduced many valuable examples of early American design — American Guide Series: Washington > < when a legislative committee began an investigation of the activities of the previous session, the Yazoo land fraud was unearthed — Sidney Warren > learn in this sense may indicate a being told or otherwise acquiring knowledge with little effort or intention < go at once to your father, and learn where you stand — L.C.Douglas > < it is said that the young lieutenant who directed the bombardment was a staunch Episcopalian and that he was horrified when he learned that he had shelled his own church — American Guide Series: Louisiana > Synonym: see in addition reveal. • - discover check |
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