| 词汇 | quest |
| 释义 | quest noun[ C ] literaryuk /kwest/ us /kwest/ C2 a long search for something that is difficult to find, or an attempt to achieve something difficult: 探索；寻求；追求 in someone’s quest for somethingNothing will stop them in their quest for truth.没有什么可以阻止他们对真理的追求。 on a questShe went to India on a spiritual quest.她去印度是出于对宗教的追求。 [ + to infinitive ]She does aerobics four times a week in her quest to achieve the perfect body.为了练就完美身材，她一周做4次有氧健身操。 In his quest for physical perfection, he spends hours in the gym.为了追求完美的体形，他在体育馆里花许多时间锻炼身体。 The United States is in the van of the quest to establish contact with beings from the beyond. New equipment is being developed in a quest to stop drinking and driving. Scientists announced another breakthrough in their quest for a cure for prostate cancer. Searching -seeking beachcomb beachcomber beachcombing body search bounty hunter comb hunt someone/something down hunter hunting ground keep your/an eye out for someone/somethingidiom leave no stone unturnedidiom lookout needle scout scrounge around search seek someone/something out seeker troll You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Trying and making an effort quest verb[ I ] literaryuk /kwest/ us /kwest/ to spend a long time searching for something that is difficult to find, or to spend a long time trying to achieve something difficult: His eyes moved across the crowd, searching, questing. quest forGeneration X quests for a balance between work and private life. quest afterHe was a real scientist, questing after truth. We chase that modest goal like knights questing for the holy grail. A few hens, questing for food, appeared through the gate. The material that the Victorian miners quested for was slate. He kept his camera at the ready, always questing after the perfect moment to capture another revealing image. Searching -seeking beachcomb beachcomber beachcombing body search bounty hunter comb hunt someone/something down hunter hunting ground keep your/an eye out for someone/somethingidiom leave no stone unturnedidiom lookout needle scout scrounge around search seek someone/something out seeker troll You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Trying and making an effort quest | American Dictionaryquest noun[ C ] us/kwest/ a long search for something that is difficult to find: a quest for the meaning of life Examples of questquest But the theatre can and has played many other, deeper, and more important roles in the quest for authentic democracy. The food quest often involves tasks that require great risk, skill, stamina, and vigor. The genealogical quest in this otherwise well-researched and very interesting book induces a rather too teleological reading of the works studied. It is problems like this with keyword-based search that are driving the quest for semantic search engines. Thus, the philosophical-scientific controversy is re-constructed in terms of identity politics, where criteria of truth and falsehood are less relevant than the quest for coherence. Ultimately, these varied ways of studying and thinking about research problems can only benefit our quest for convergent validity. But let us not prefer intellectual laziness to the quest for a correct conceptualization. In essence, the firms became the government's ' work horses ' in its quest to bolster its credibility with respect to international capital. For most provincial ministries of health, it has been the focus of quests for containment, rationalisation and privatisation. This quest was motivated by a sociocultural inclination towards learning, which places instructive dialogue at the core of successful teaching and learning. This quest for newness of subject has led modern verse into strange paths. I think he abandoned his quest too easily. But they also remained thwarted in their quest for upward mobility. Ideally, seasonally variable daily mortality rates operating on each stage in each state (questing, feeding, developing) should be measured. Although the adult data show high variance, they demonstrate a population that was both consistently sized over three years and questing at all seasons. 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. |
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