| 词汇 | pursuit |
| 释义 | pursuit noun uk /pəˈsjuːt/ us /pɚˈsuːt/ pursuitnoun (ACTIVITY)[ Cusually plural ] an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are not working: 嗜好，消遣，娱乐 I enjoy outdoor pursuits, like hiking and riding.我喜欢户外活动，比如徒步旅行和骑马。 I don't have much opportunity for leisure pursuits these days.我近来没有多少时间可以花在业余爱好上。 Pastimes - general words activity amusement avocation avocational avocationally caper deke game interest leisure nonprofessional pastime poi rec recreate recreation recreational recreationist relaxation pursuitnoun (FOLLOWING)[ C or U ] the act of following someone or something to try to catch him, her, or it: 追踪;追击 Three people have been killed in high-speed pursuits by the police recently.有3人在最近警察的高速追捕中毙命。 The robbers fled the scene of the crime with the police in pursuit.抢劫者逃离了犯罪现场，警察紧追不舍。 Pursuing be hot on someone's track/trailidiom be on someone's tailidiom bear bear down on someone/something bring bring up the rearidiom convoy hound humbug in hot pursuitidiom on the scentidiom pester pursue run stalk stick tag tailgate track track and trace pursuitnoun (ATTEMPT)C2[ U ] the act of trying to achieve a plan, activity, or situation, usually over a long period of time: 追求；从事；实行 the pursuit of happiness对幸福的追求 The company is ruthless in its pursuit of profit.公司为追求利润不择手段。 The union is on strike in pursuit of(= trying to achieve) a ten percent pay increase.工会为了争取10%的加薪而罢工。 Trying and making an effort A game all out assault attempt attempted commitment give something your best shotidiom go after someone go all outidiom go down swinging/fightingidiom go for someone nose shoot for the moonidiom shoot the worksidiom smarten (someone/something) up smarten up your actidiom spare square the circleidiom stretch struggle pursuit | American Dictionarypursuit noun us/pərˈsut/ pursuitnoun (ACT OF FOLLOWING)[ C/U ] the act of following or searching for someone or something, in order to catch or attack the person or thing: [ U ]The two children ran through the field in pursuit of their puppy. pursuitnoun (ATTEMPT)[ U ] an attempt to achieve something: The Declaration of Independence states that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are basic human rights. pursuitnoun (ACTIVITY)[ Cusually pl ] an activity that you spend time and energy doing: scholarly pursuits Examples of pursuitpursuit The tests were carried out as the last of a battery of eye-movement tasks, including smooth pursuit and prosaccade tasks. If, however, pursuit and perception have different motion-integration pathways, the pursuit response to image motion will not be tightly correlated with perceptual coherence. Precision of the motion direction signals underlying pursuit eye-movements and perception in humans. If solo practitioners have more time than patients, pursuit of income might lead them to perform unnecessary services. Furthermore, even for scholars who are dubious about the prospects for generalization or uninterested in its pursuit, theoretical explorations of historical causation remain important. The pursuit of this goal has to be constrained, though: among the constraints are ontological, pragmatic, and epistemological considerations. At this stage of the argument, we should turn our attention to the epistemological strife accompanying the professional pursuit of charismatic authority. Certainly both are ruthless in pursuit of their agendas. They are not afraid to risk ridicule in the pursuit of true representation. Stability is not only hard to g rasp, its pursuit is self-defeating. Unlike nursing, for example, career structures for doctors have long supported the simultaneous pursuit of academic research activity alongside practice. Realists emphasize new or continuing security concerns, and prescribe unilateral action and the deployment of traditional power politics in the pursuit of state interests. They were thus incompatible with politeness, which was allied with the metropolitan and cosmopolitan and the pursuit of a general culture. Such creatures would be ' perfectly reasonable ' in the sense that they could never be weak-willed in their pursuit of the good. As development advances, it will naturally intersect to an increasing degree with efforts in the pursuit of 'virtual reality'. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withpursuitpursuitThese are words often used in combination with pursuit. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. academic pursuit The inquiry into an emerging 'regional' architecture can co-exist as both an academicpursuit and a quest of practice. active pursuit It is not the case that a good life is one in which people must be constantly engaged in the activepursuit of goals. aggressive pursuit In addition, the aggressivepursuit of trade liberalisation by the military government after 1976 led to a sharp contraction of the industrial labour force. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with pursuit |
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