seeking

英 [ˈsiːkɪŋ]

美 [ˈsiːkɪŋ]

v.  寻找; 寻求; 谋求; 争取; (向人)请求
seek的现在分词

现在分词：seeking　复数：seekings　

计算机

BNC.20256 / COCA.22323

柯林斯词典

• VERB 寻找;物色
  If youseeksomething such as a job or a place to live, you try to find one.
  1. They have had to seek work as labourers...
     他们只好找体力活儿干。
  2. 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。
  3. Candidates are urgently sought for the post of Conservative party chairman.
     保守党主席的职位急寻候选人。
• VERB 谋求;谋取;寻求
  When someoneseekssomething, they try to obtain it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB 请求(帮助);征求(意见)
  If youseeksomeone's help or advice, you contact them in order to ask for it.
  1. 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。
  2. On important issues, they seek a second opinion...
     在重要问题上，他们会征求别人的看法。
  3. The couple have sought help from marriage guidance counsellors.
     这对夫妇已经向婚姻指导顾问寻求帮助。
• VERB 力图;想方设法
  If youseek todo something, you try to do it.
  1. He also denied that he would seek to annex the country...
     他还否认会试图吞并该国。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• an attempt to acquire or gain something
• the act of searching for something
  1. a quest for diamonds
  Synonym:quest

双语例句

• Increasingly, corporate clients are seeking to outsource the management of their facilities.
  越来越多的公司客户寻求将设施的管理外包出去。
• The organization denies that it is seeking any readjustment of state borders.
  该组织否认其正在寻求对国界进行调整。
• Spain has recalled its Ambassador after a row over refugees seeking asylum at the embassy
  在对难民到使馆寻求庇护一事产生严重分歧后，西班牙召回了其大使。
• Both nations are seeking closer links with the West
  两国都在寻求与西方国家建立更为紧密的联系。
• They are seeking to build a faithful recreation of the original Elizabethan theatre.
  他们正在试图如实再现伊丽莎白时期剧院的原貌。
• The union is seeking compensation for two factory workers who were dismissed last week.
  工会正在为上星期被解雇的两名工人争取补偿金。
• The scientific investigation team devote themselves to seeking for traces of primitive man.
  科考队一直致力于找寻原始人类的遗踪。
• Ex-forces personnel could be the manna from heaven employers are seeking
  当过兵的人大概是雇主们寻找的宝贝了。
• We are seeking continuous, incremental improvements, not great breakthroughs.
  我们在寻求持续的、渐进的改善，而不是重大的突破。
• The farmers have been seeking higher prices as better protection from foreign competition
  农场主们一直在寻找更高的价格，以更好地保护自己不受国外竞争对手的影响。