seek

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基本释义

v.
寻找; 谋求; 请求(帮助),征求(意见); 想方设法

词性变化

实用例句

Drivers are advised to seek alternative routes.

驾车者被告知需另寻其他路线。

牛津词典

They sought in vain for somewhere to shelter.

他们怎么也找不到一个藏身的地方。

牛津词典

to seek funding for a project

为项目筹募资金

牛津词典

Highly qualified secretary seeks employment. (= in an advertisement)

优秀秘书求职(广告用语)。

牛津词典

We are currently seeking new ways of expanding our membership.

目前,我们正探索发展会员的新途径。

牛津词典

I think it's time we sought legal advice.

我想我们现在该咨询一下律师了。

牛津词典

She managed to calm him down and seek help from a neighbour.

她设法使他平静下来,然后向一位邻居求助。

牛津词典

They quickly sought to distance themselves from the protesters.

他们迅速设法远离抗议者。

牛津词典

attention-seeking behaviour

为引起他人的注意而作出的行为

牛津词典

Voluntary work can provide a framework for job-seeking.

参与义务工作有助于奠定求职的基础。

牛津词典

They have had to seek work as labourers...

他们只好找体力活儿干。

Four people who sought refuge in the Italian embassy have left voluntarily...

4 名在意大利大使馆寻求避难的人已经自愿离开了。

The prosecutors have warned they will seek the death penalty...

检控方律师已警告说他们会努力争取判处死刑。

Haemophiliacs are seeking compensation for being given contaminated blood.

血友病患者们因为被输入了受到污染的血液而正在寻求赔偿。

Always seek professional legal advice before entering into any agreement...

在签订任何协定之前一定要先征求法律专业人士的意见。

On important issues, they seek a second opinion...

在重要问题上,他们会征求别人的看法。

He also denied that he would seek to annex the country...

他还否认会试图吞并该国。

Moscow is seeking to slow the growth of Russian inflation.

俄罗斯政府正力图遏制本国的通货膨胀。

You should seek advice from your lawyer on this matter.

你应该征求你的律师对这件事的意见.

《简明英汉词典》

How can we seek out a really good person for the job?

我们怎能找到一个真正适当的人来做这项工作?

《简明英汉词典》

It is not allowed to use one's power to seek privileges.

不允许把职权变成特权.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Seek for an experienced scientist to fill the post.

找一位有经验的科学家来担当此职.

《简明英汉词典》

Those who seek it, undertake an arduous journey and can never be sure that they will find it.

寻求正义的人历尽艰辛,也决不能肯定他们就能找到正义.

《用法词典》

You must seek redress in the law courts.

你应当通过法律途径要求赔偿.

《简明英汉词典》

He is to seek in ability.

他缺乏能力.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

真题例句

Some of us will seek it out; for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into otherwise stable careers.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

A young woman sought explanation from a brain scientist when she noticed her unusual memory.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Stop to seek advice from a human being.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Seek true pleasureTo have a meaningful, happy life we need friends.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasures—advice which was originally offered by Epicurus.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absorption and pleasure adults spend the rest of their lives seeking.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Seek advice from their worthy competitors.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

It's not easy for most people to actively seek conflict.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

It is human nature to seek joy in life.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

They have allowed me the opportunity to seek jobs in international contexts and help me get those jobs.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

Some are seeking scapegoats (替罪羊).

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

There is, in our view, no real dispute here, we are all seeking the same thing, which is schools that better serve our children and our nation by encouraging students to tackle tough subjects under the guidance of gifted teachers.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

It is my profound belief that not only do we all need nature, but we all seek nature, whether we know we are doing so or not.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

People instinctively seek nature in different ways

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The five suggestions the author gives at the end of the passage are meant to encourage people to seek harmony with the natural world.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

A Grassroots Remedy Most of us spend our lives seeking the natural world

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The woman should seek help from the tutoring service.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Be frank and seek help from others

出自-2011年6月听力原文

They sought help from union representatives.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasures — advice which was originally offered by Epicurus.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The-doctors response to the question of whether or not dogs can fall in love like humans do was a straight "Of course!" He went on to say that if love is defined as a long term commitment meaning dogs seek one another out when they're apart, they're happy

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

In fact, other recent studies have found there has never been a time in American history when so small a proportion of young people have sought or accepted leadership roles in local civic organizations.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

They often have to seek jobs outside the academic circle.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Traditional vocational training in public high schools is gradually declining, stranding thousands of young people who seek training for a craft without going to college.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

It has sought professors' opinions.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

This is part of the process of self-validation whereby we employ self-disclosures to seek support for our self-concept.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

On occasions it is the fear that certain disclosures may be unacceptable to family or friends that motivates an individual to seek professional help

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Every time any official in Beijing deliberates publicly about seeking an alternative to the US dollar for the $

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

But critics allege that by making electronic copies of these books without first seeking the permission of copyright holders, Google has committed piracy.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

When a noted leader on the art of management, Peter Drucker, coined the phrase "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things," he was seeking to clarify the distinctions he associates with the terms

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Perhaps most significant, according to Mannaz, is the increasing interest large companies have in more collaborative management models, such as those prevalent in Scandinavia, which seek to integrate the hard and soft aspects of leadership and encourage delegated responsibility and accountability.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

They should also be seeking individuals who have backgrounds in areas such as political science, the creative arts, history or philosophy, which will allow them to put business decisions into a wider context.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

And worse, men are less likely than women to seek help from health professionals.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The writers of Generation O (short for Obama), a new Newsweek blog that seeks to chronicle the lives of a group of young Obama supporters, want to answer that question.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

We seek it out in others and are proud to claim it in ourselves, perhaps even more than good looks or intelligence.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

For other companies interested in reducing waste, helping the environment, and providing the sustainable lifestyles that consumers seek, here are some first steps for building a relationship with customers that focuses on recycling and restoring value to

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

If the intellectual worth of a college degree can be accurately measured, more people will seek higher education – and come out better thinkers.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Seek out your teammates purposefully rather than jumping on every new group project opportunity.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The best seek to alleviate the external pressures on their pupils while equipping them better to understand and handle the world outside一 at once sheltering them and broadening their horizons.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we'll continue to hit the mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

Besides, businesses seek to appeal to customers' senses.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

I'd skipped nearby Guilin, a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li river which are pictured by artists in so many Chinese paintings.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

If acceptable social behavior is too strictly defined and controlled, the insensitive or aggressive behavior that administrators are seeking to minimize may actually be encouraged.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

More than 750, 000 have graduated from SAC, with many seeking employment in engineering, aviation, education, medicine and a wide variety of other professions.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientists say that your willingness to take risks increases during your teenage years.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

One group was asked to seek out an interaction with its waiter; the other, to speak only when necessary.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

They actively seek to be part of a "we", a group that intends to work toward a shared goal.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

To find out if the special quality was more widespread in birds, the researchers sought the red-backed fairy wren, another species of Australian songbird.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

When some refuse vaccination and seek a free ride, immunity breaks down and everyone is in even bigger danger.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Yet knowing we can have more can also create a problem, because when we go to change the way we do things, up come the old patterns and pitfalls that stopped us from seeking what we wanted in the first place.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Your lives are busy enough doing homework, playing sports, making friends, seeking after your dreams.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

In physics, one approach takes this impulse for unification to its extreme, and seeks a theory of everything-a single generative equation for all we see.

出自-2012年考研翻译原文

As a condition of receiving state approval for the sale, the company agreed to seek permission from state regulators to operate past 2012.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Instead, the claimant receives a time-limited “allowance,” conditional on actively seeking a job; no entitlement and no insurance, at £71.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

The anticipation of possible shifts in demand provided by this study is significant: It gives a basis to all organization which seek to promote the learning and very different operating environment.

出自-2017年考研翻译原文

Calls to disassemble all telescopes on Mauna Kea or to ban future development there ignore the reality that astronomy and Hawaiian culture both seek to answer big questions about who we are, where we come from and where we are going.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

But it did so while holding its nose at the ethics of his conduct, which included accepting gifts such as a Rolex watch and a Ferrari automobile from a company seeking access to government.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

It was the purpose and responsibility of great minds to go forth and seek out the truth, which they believed to be founded in knowledge.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Such actions to seek knowledge and to understand what information we already knew were captured by the Latin phrase "sapere aude" or "dare to know", after Immanuel Kant used it in his essay An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The new research reveals that the need to know is so strong that people will seek to satisfy their curiosity even when it is clear the answer will hurt.

2018年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Today many people find it difficult to trust their own opinion and seek balance by gaining objectivity from external sources.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk

Verb
  • 1. try to get or reach;

    "seek a position"

    "seek an education"

    "seek happiness"

  • 2. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of;

    "The police are searching for clues"

    "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"

  • 3. make an effort or attempt;

    "He tried to shake off his fears"

    "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"

    "The police attempted to stop the thief"

    "He sought to improve himself"

    "She always seeks to do good in the world"

  • 4. go to or towards;

    "a liquid seeks its own level"

  • 5. inquire for;

    "seek directions from a local"

同义词辨析

hunt, explore, track, seek

这些动词均含"搜索,寻找"之意。

  • hunt: 一般指寻找所需的物件,或对罪犯的搜寻,特指追猎。
  • explore: 一般指对未知事物或新生事物的探索、观察与研究。
  • track: 侧重按一定线索追查出结果。
  • seek: 语义庄重,语气强,使用广。多暗示做出很大努力去寻求某人或物。

search, seek, comb

这些动词均含有"寻找"之意。

  • search: 侧重努力和彻底搜寻某人或某地。
  • seek: 书面用词,使用广。指付出很大努力去寻找某人或某物。
  • comb: 指像梳头一样进行搜寻,侧重费力和彻底搜查。

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反义词

vt. & vi.寻找;搜索

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