英语词汇“pursue”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	pursue
释义	pur·sue \pə(r)ˈsü\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English pursuen, from Anglo-French pursuer, from Old French poursivre, poursuir, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin prosequere, from Latin prosequi to follow, follow after, pursue, from pro- forward + sequi to follow — more at pro-, sue *transitive verb* 1. a. : to follow with enmity : persecute, bedevil : persist in harassing, afflicting, or aggrieving < pursued with peculiar animosity — T.B.Macaulay > b. : to follow usually determinedly in order to overtake, capture, kill, or defeat < the hounds pursued the stag > < pursued the fleeing Indians > c. : to attend, follow, and seek to attract < was pursuing two girls at the time — Oliver La Farge > 2. a. : to seek to follow, obtain, attain to, or accomplish : find or employ measures to obtain or accomplish < losing the pearl of great price while pursuing lesser ends — W.R.Inge > b. : to follow or seek by judicial proceedings : prosecute < pursued his legal remedies > 3. : to proceed along or act in, according to, or in compliance with : follow < U.S. 220 pursues an irregular north-south course — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < a compact little village, astir with the same activity it has pursued … since the 17th century — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > 4. : to follow up or proceed with : continue : engage oneself with : practice < the ordinary rigorous canons of scientific evidence pursued by the scholarly historian — M.R.Cohen > < pursuing the game of high ambition — John Buchan > < placidly pursuing her tasks without heeding the surrounding clamor > 5. : to follow with or as if with one's eyes, senses, or mind < his thoughts also followed or, rather, pursued the slim woman — Ethel Wilson > 6. a. : to attempt to arrive at (as a point, a place, an end) < moving toward the point it has so energetically pursued — Henry Adams > b. obsolete : to follow in order to avenge or punish *intransitive verb* 1. : to go in pursuit : follow after someone or something < where only the strongest dared pursue > 2. Scots & eccl law : to bring suit : prosecute — often used with for 3. : to keep on doing or saying : press on (as in argument or speech) Synonyms: see follow
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