search
1.下面每组里的三句意思不同:
- The police are searching the man.(警察们正在搜查这个人[的身体]。)
The police are searching ./or the man.(警察们正在搜寻这个人[要找着他]。)
The police are searching out the man.(警察们正在找到这个人。) - We shall search the house.(我们将搜查这房子[看看里面有些什么]。)
We shall search /or the house.(我们将找寻这房子。)
We shall search out the house.(我们将找到这房子。)
注意下面两句里的searched for和searched out不可对调。
- He searched for(不用out)the book, but could not find it.
- He searched out(不用for)the book, and handed it to me.
search after作search for解,但语气重些,而且通常用于抽象名词。例如:He came to live in the country to search after health.
search for和search after都含有“努力搜寻”的意思。对于偶然被忘记放在哪儿的东西,通常用look for而不用search for或search after。例如:I am looking for my gloves, I must have left them in one of the drawers.
2.a search后面通常接for,偶尔接of。例如:She made a search for(偶尔用of)her missing ring. the search后面接of,for或after。例如:He is engaged in the search of(或for,或after)certain rare plants. in search of中用of。例如:She went about the garden in search of her lost ring.