Find
[faɪnd]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; 'I found myself in a difficult situation'; 'When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room'.
(verb.) obtain through effort or management; 'She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents'; 'We found the money to send our sons to college'.
(verb.) come upon, as if by accident; meet with; 'We find this idea in Plato'; 'I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here'; 'She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day'.
(verb.) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; 'Did you find your glasses?'; 'I cannot find my gloves!'.
(verb.) succeed in reaching; arrive at; 'The arrow found its mark'.
(verb.) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; 'I feel that he doesn't like me'; 'I find him to be obnoxious'; 'I found the movie rather entertaining'.
弗雷迪手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
(v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
(v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
(v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
(v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
(v. t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
(v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
(v. t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
(v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
(v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
(n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
編輯:桑德拉
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Discover, fall upon, light upon, meet with, fall in with.[2]. Obtain, get, procure, gain, arrive at, attain to.[3]. Observe, remark, notice, perceive.[4]. Detect, catch.[5]. Supply, furnish, contribute, provide.[6]. Supply with food.[7]. (Law.) Determine judicially, declare by verdict.
v. n. (Law.) Declare a verdict, determine an issue.
手打:斯坦
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Meet, confront, ascertain, experience, perceive, discover, furnish, invent
ANT:Miss, elude, overlook, lose, withhold, withdraw, misconstrue
編輯:梅森
解釋/意思:
v.t. to come upon or meet with: to discover or arrive at: to perceive: to experience: to supply: to determine after judicial inquiry:—pr.p. fīnd′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. found.—ns. Find′er; Find′-fault (Shak.) one who finds fault with another; Find′ing act of one who finds: that which is found: a judicial verdict: (pl.) the appliances which some workmen have to supply esp. of shoemakers—everything save leather.—Find one in (something) to supply one with something; Find one's account (in anything) to find satisfactory profit or advantage in it; Find one's legs to rise or to recover the use of one's legs as after being drunk &c.; Find one's self to feel as regards health happiness &c.; Find out to discover.
錄入:露西
例句/造句/用法:
- As a walking companion, Emma had very early foreseen how useful she might find her. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands, said Mrs. March decidedly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Again you find us, Miss Summerson, said he, using our little arts to polish, polish! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It would be difficult to find a human being less likely to arouse affection. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I find from Riderhood and you together, that there are suspicions against both men, and I'm not going to take upon myself to decide betwixt them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I passed to the altered days when I was so blest as to find friends in all around me, and to be beloved. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I will answer for it that we shall find no inconvenience from narrow roads on Wednesday. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Have you found your first day's work harder than you expected? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- On the second day he found his wife and Sir Percival whispering together quite familiar, close under the vestry of the church. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I soon found Briony Lodge. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Is it he who found the body? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It looks as if the old man's spirit had found rest at last; don't it? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He had even yielded to her wish for a long engagement, since she had found the one disarming answer to his plea for haste. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes: into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- And thus young Lord Greystoke took the first step toward the goal which he had set--the finding of other white men like himself. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- But here there was the difficulty of finding room, so many things having been taken in beforehand. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I glanced at my companion, and finding that he had already risen and was ready to depart, thanked them for what they had told me, and took my leave. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I was not long in finding out that the objections to Smith's promotion were well founded. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I am told many of these persons think about her, sir, I went ongaining courage on finding that I met attention rather than repulse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- From every provident point of view his mother was so undoubtedly right, that he was not without a sickness of heart in finding he could shake her. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Finding him at last beginning to tire, we drew him into the boat, and brought him home dripping wet. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Who was the poet who said that Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The first night that finds a small craft moored near the shore of Shador, I replied. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- She finds compensations, no doubt--I know she borrows money of Gus--but then I'd PAY her to keep him in a good humour, so I can't complain, after all. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- During the last year or two, things have gone against him--secret speculation, I think--and he finds himself in a bad way. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia finds its parallel in the very modest debut of Adams's friend in Boston. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
錄入:库尔特