seek
英 [si?k]
美[sik]
- vt. 尋求；尋找；探索；搜索
- vi. 尋找；探索；搜索
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?seeks;過去式:?sought;過去分詞:?sought;現(xiàn)在分詞:?seeking;
助記提示
1. -k / -ck / -c / -ke / -g / -ch / -tch ==> -ought / -aught.
see 看——seek覓（尋覓時(shí)要用眼睛）
see 看——seek覓（尋覓時(shí)要用眼睛）
中文詞源
seek 尋找，尋求
來自古英語 secan,尋求，追尋，渴望，來自 Proto-Germanic*sokjan,尋求，來自 PIE*sag,尋求， 找出，詞源同 sake,beseech.
英文詞源
- seek
- seek: [OE] Seek has several Germanic relatives – German suchen, Swedish s?ka, Danish s?ge, etc – which point back to a prehistoric Germanic ancestor *sōkjan. The base from which this was derived, *sōk-, went back to an Indo-European *sāg-, which also produced (via Latin) English presage [14] and sagacious [17]. If Old English sēcan had developed in the ordinary way, it would have become modern English seech, not seek. For various reasons it did not, but we can see how it would have been in its derivative beseech [12].
=> beseech, presage, sagacious, sake - seek (v.)
- Old English secan "inquire, search for; pursue; long for, wish for, desire; look for, expect from," influenced by Old Norse soekja, both from Proto-Germanic *sokjan (cognates: Old Saxon sokian, Old Frisian seka, Middle Dutch soekan, Old High German suohhan, German suchen, Gothic sokjan), from PIE *sag-yo-, from root *sag- "to track down, seek out" (cognates: Latin sagire "to perceive quickly or keenly," sagus "presaging, predicting," Old Irish saigim "seek"). The natural modern form of the Anglo-Saxon word as uninfluenced by Norse is in beseech. Related: Sought; seeking.
雙語例句
- 1. His instinct would be to seek a new accommodation with the nationalists.
- 他本能的反應(yīng)會(huì)是尋求與民族主義者取得新的和解。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Yet now he was here, in extremis, to seek an alliance.
- 然而現(xiàn)在他就在這里，在絕境中尋求聯(lián)盟。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. It is wise to seek help and counsel as soon as possible.
- 盡快尋求幫助和建議乃明智之舉。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Always seek professional legal advice before entering into any agreement.
- 在簽訂任何協(xié)定之前一定要先征求法律專業(yè)人士的意見。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The prosecutors have warned they will seek the death penalty.
- 檢控方律師已警告說他們會(huì)努力爭取判處 刑。
來自柯林斯例句