search

1. V-I If you search for something or someone, you look carefully for them. 搜尋

The Turkish security forces have started searching for the missing men. 土耳其安全部隊已經開始搜尋失蹤人員。

They searched for a spot where they could sit on the floor. 他們在地板上尋找一個能夠坐下的地方。

2. V-T/V-I If you search a place, you look carefully for something or someone there. 在 (某地) 搜尋; 搜查 (某地)

Armed troops searched the hospital yesterday. 武裝部隊昨天搜查了這家毉院。

She searched her desk for the necessary information. 她在她的書桌裡搜尋必要的資料。

Relief workers are still searching through collapsed buildings. 救援人員仍在塌了的建築物裡搜尋。

3. N-COUNT A search is an attempt to find something or someone by looking for them carefully. 搜尋

There was no chance of him being found alive and the search was abandoned. 沒有他活著被找到的可能了，於是放棄了搜尋。

4. V-T If a police officer or someone else in authority searches you, they look carefully to see whether you have something hidden on you. 搜 (某人) 身

The man took her suitcase from her and then searched her. 那個人從她手上拿走了她的手提箱然後搜了她的身。

5. V-I If you search for information on a computer, you give the computer an instruction to find that information. (在計算機上) 搜索[計算機]

You can use a directory service to search for people on the Internet. 你可以使用目錄服務在因特網上搜索人。

6. N-COUNT Search is also a noun. 搜索

He came across this story while he was doing a computer search of local news articles. 他在電腦上搜索地方新聞文章時碰到了這篇報道。

7. →see also searching

8. PHRASE If you go in search of something or someone, you try to find them. 尋找

Miserable, and unexpectedly lonely, she went in search of Jean-Paul. 由於痛苦和突如其來的孤獨，她去找讓–保羅了。

9. CONVENTION You say "search me" when someone asks you a question and you want to emphasize that you do not know the answer. 我哪知道[非正式]

"So why did he get interested all of a sudden?"— "Search me."

“那麽他爲什麽突然感興趣了呢？”—“我哪知道。”