| 单词 | see |
| 释义 | see I. transitive verb 1. a. < opens his eyes to see the sunlight coming in through the window > b. < it was wonderful what that boy saw who was blind — Stuart Cloete > c. < the supersonic streamlining of this vehicle makes it difficult to see by radar — L.N.Ridenour > 2. a. < saw sea duty on a minesweeper — Current Biography > < if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death — Jn 8:51 (Revised Standard Version) > < opening for keen, practical, final year student to see dairy cattle and small-animal practice — Veterinary Record > < seen better days > < see life > b. < a point of view which I have since seen cause to modify — John Buchan > c. < see if the hat fits > < see if the car needs oil > < see who's at the door > d. < the late glacial times saw the complete triumph of our ancestral stock — Jacquetta & Christopher Hawkes > e. < that house saw more worry and unhappiness — Virginia D. Dawson & Betty D. Wilson > 3. a. < can still see her as she was twenty years ago > < saw her in his dreams > b. < because the frontier gives shape and life to our national myth, we have preferred to see its story in romantic outline — Dayton Kohler > c. < planning to fire you tomorrow, because you just can't see a good news story — Sinclair Lewis > < sees the folly of further resistance — T.B.Costain > < sees only his faults > d. < can you see me knowing how to furnish a house — Edith Sitwell > < was never whipped … she was so dignified and superior you just couldn't see her across my mother's lap — Myron Brinig > e. < we saw, in the previous lecture, how the problem arose > f. < see oursels as others see us — Robert Burns > g. < can see the day when a college will not try to cover the whole field of liberal arts — Time > 4. a. < want to see how he handles the problem > b. (1) < have you seen the story of yesterday's game > < let me see your pass, soldier > < seen and allowed > (2) < I saw your appointment in the newspapers > c. < for further information, see the documents printed in the appendix > < see the explanatory notes at the beginning of the book > d. < see a parade > < see a play > < see the sights of the city > 5. a. < would like him to have enough to see him easily to the end of his days — T.B.Costain > b. < see thou say nothing to any man — Mk 1:44 (Authorized Version) > < see that your wet umbrella is not placed between your seat and the next — Agnes M. Miall > < will see that he is brought up properly > 6. a. < the electorate did not see fit to ratify the new frame of government — B.W.Bond > < did not see it right to ask for special favors > b. < would probably see himself shot before he told a deliberate falsehood — J.G.Cozzens > < I'll see you dead before I accept your terms > c. < still can't see the portholes but this is our only complaint in an otherwise clean design — Walt Woron > < hope you'll be able to make her see it — W.S.Maugham > < can't understand what he sees in her > 7. a. (1) < stopped off at the office to see his former employer > (2) < see a doctor > < see a lawyer > b. (1) < had been seeing each other for a year before they became engaged > (2) < the president of the bank will see you in a few minutes > < sees only a few old friends these days > (3) < charged that the witness had been seen by the defense > 8. a. < young men would wait to see the young ladies home — Agnes S. Turnbull > b. < saw her onto the plane > < saw him off at the station > c. < saw a new edition of his book through the press > < the sympathy of his friends saw him through this period of grief > 9. intransitive verb 1. a. < see, the train is coming > b. < stood up and fired his pistol in the air, and the naked Indians came out on the shore to see — Meridel Le Sueur > 2. a. < whereas I was blind, now I see — Jn 9:25 (Authorized Version) > < he sees poorly with his left eye > b. < it was so foggy that he could hardly see > c. < the butterfly lightness that was teaching his fingers to see — Marcia Davenport > 3. a. < this fundamental bias of all thinking … is what enables us to see, gives thought its real use — H.J.Muller > b. < these aren't ordinary trout, you see — Corey Ford > c. < when can I finish this — let me see > 4. a. < you'll see about the rates, won't you — Agnes S. Turnbull > b. < I can't give you an answer yet, but we shall see > Synonyms: < I see you > < I see it > behold may be used in situations involving awe, grandeur, or dignity, with suggestions of observant, complete vision < it was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils — Mary W. Shelley > < Grecian spectators … when they beheld the innumerable Persian host crossing the Hellespont — George Grote > descry may suggest watchful, careful scanning and observation of the distant or the difficult to view < on a superb day he can descry Greenwich, 28 miles away — New Yorker > espy is similar in suggestion to descry but is more likely to be used to refer to the obscure or covert < flowers we espy beside the torrent growing, flowers that peep forth from many a cleft and chink — William Wordsworth > < on these analogies it is not altogether fantastic to espy … the ghost of a Minoan universal church — A.J.Toynbee > view may designate an overall or comprehensive looking at a subject, often from a specific or particular position or in a specific or peculiar way < the little chapel … the white dove … green tufted islands … the youth had long been viewing these pleasant things — John Keats > < the effort is an interesting one if you view it in terms of the techniques of political symbolism — Max Lerner > survey, in this sense, may be used in reference to a broad view from a high point or may designate a comprehensive examination of a subject with careful consideration of its salient points < am monarch of all I survey — William Cowper > < had plenty of leisure now, day in, day out, to survey her life as a tract of country traversed — Victoria Sackville-West > observe may suggest careful, heedful attention directed and sustained < a genuine scientific process — the play of intellect and imagination around a few fragments of observed fact — Havelock Ellis > < the Navy is observing the new programs in the Army and Air Force with interest — Atlantic > notice may suggest careful observation and intention to record or remember < if we tried to notice all the ways in which the idea of beauty has been corrupted — Irving Babbitt > remark and note mean to see or sense and to record or make a mental note < I remarked their English accents — James Joyce > < believed that the artist should not number the streaks of the tulip but should remark general properties and large appearances — F.W.Hilles > < in these brilliant and gifted inhabitants … one may note a number of characteristics — Geoffrey Bruun > < writers are perhaps the best of travelers, since their sharpened senses seize and note impressions — F.B.Millett > perceive may combine the notions of seeing or sensing and of recognizing and realizing < his lightning dashes from image to image, so quick that we are unable at first to perceive the points of contact — C.D.Lewis > < what a great novelist at his best perceives in human nature — Bernard De Voto > discern may apply to seeing or perceiving identities or differences which are not immediately obvious < never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary — W.S.Maugham > Synonyms: < see clearly with a telescope > < have the power of seeing > look stresses the directing of the eyes to something in order to see < look and see the man leave > < turn suddenly to look at the man > watch implies a persistent observing or the following of something with the eyes in order to observe fully < watch what a child is up to > < a cat watching a mouse > • - see about - see after - see daylight - see for - see one's way - see red - see the elephant - see through - see to - see to it II. 1. a. archaic b. c. 2. a. < the see of Rome > b. |
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