Overlook
[əʊvə'lʊk] or [,ovɚ'lʊk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a high place affording a good view.
(verb.) watch over; 'I am overlooking her work'.
(verb.) look past, fail to notice.
戴夫校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.
(v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.
(v. t.) To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
(v. t.) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
(v. t.) To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse.
手打:玛莎
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Superintend, supervise, oversee, inspect, have charge of.[2]. Excuse, forgive, pardon, pass over, forgive and forget.[3]. Disregard, neglect, miss, BLINK, pass by, be inattentive to, not notice, not think of.
整理:李奥娜
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Condone, connive, disregard, oversee, supervise, inspect, survey, review,excuse, pardon, forgive, neglect
ANT:Visit, scrutinize, investigate, mark
校對:玛克辛
解釋/意思:
v.t. to look over: to see from a higher position: to view carefully: to neglect by carelessness or inadvertence: to pass by without punishment: to pardon: to slight: to bewitch by looking upon with the Evil Eye.—n. Overlook′er.
杰德手打
例句/造句/用法:
- For his observation was constantly confirming Mr. Farebrother's assurance that the banker would not overlook opposition. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The influence of analogy led him to invent 'parallels and conjugates' and to overlook facts. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- You don't in the least know how to do it; but I'll overlook your awkwardness in consideration of your feelings. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Perhaps I might have scolded, said Edmund, if either of you had been sitting down alone; but while you do wrong together, I can overlook a great deal. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- And to bear with my infirmities, Jane: to overlook my deficiencies. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I hope he will overlook it. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Likewise, it seems to me that, concentrating our attention on the examination, we altogether overlook one of the best points of the animal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The daily appearance of a brougham and pair could hardly have been overlooked in such Sleepy Hollows. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Aside from the development of the motion picture as a spectacle, there has gone on an evolution in its use for educational purposes of wide range, which must not be overlooked. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She had overlooked the fact that, in coming as a boy among other boys, she would be treated as a boy. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Kind Mrs. Vesey, whom we have all too much overlooked and forgotten of late, innocently caused us a sad morning to begin with. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- When this social aim is overlooked, however, the study of primitive life becomes simply a rehearsing of sensational and exciting features of savagery. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- No letter that can possibly have been overlooked? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of goodwill which could not be overlooked. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The enemy was found strongly intrenched on the high ground overlooking the river, and commanding the Wooden Bridge with artillery. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The friends had walked to the broad window overlooking the boulevard as they talked. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Birney was now moved to the high ground overlooking the river crossings built by our troops, and covered the crossings. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The room was a pleasant one, at the top of the house, overlooking the sea, on which the moon was shining brilliantly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- She was sitting on a seat at one end of a kind of terrace, overlooking the great city. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- On the 8th Meade was directed to fortify a line down the bank overlooking the Chickahominy, under cover of which the army could move. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Bragg followed and took possession of Missionary Ridge, overlooking Chattanooga. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- For some time I sat upon the rock that overlooks the sea of ice. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The traveller from the deck of the steamer, as from some floating castle top, overlooks the whole country for miles and miles around. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The lady who built the new part of this house as that tablet records, and whose son overlooks and directs everything here. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- To take care, in doing this, that one end of the stick shall be at the edge of the rocks, on the side of them which overlooks the quicksand. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But it overlooks the fact that fear need not be an undesirable factor in experience. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- After that I determined to lie in wait, so I got out my revolver and I sat up in my study, which overlooks the lawn and garden. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
整理:内莉