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词汇 discovering
释义 discovering
present participle ofdiscover
discover
verb
uk /dɪˈskʌv.ər/ us /dɪˈskʌv.ɚ/
B1[ T ]
to find information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time: (尤指首次)发现,找到
Who discovered America?谁发现了美洲?
We searched all morning for the missing papers and finally discovered them in a drawer.我们一上午都在找那些失踪的文件,最后终于在一个抽屉里找到了。
discover how[ + question word ]Scientists have discovered how to predict an earthquake.科学家们找到了预测地震的方法。
[ + (that) ]She discovered (that) her husband was having an affair.她发现丈夫有外遇。
[ + to infinitive ]Following a routine check-up, Mrs Mason was discovered to have heart disease.例行体检发现梅森夫人患有心脏病。
[ + obj + -ing verb ]The boss discovered him stealing money from the cash register.老板发现他从钱箱里偷钱。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to find someone or something
findI've looked everywhere for my keys but can't find them.
discoverThe missing wallet was discovered under the chair.
locatePolice are still trying to locate the suspect.
uncoverReporters uncovered evidence of corruption.
unearthOur investigation unearthed mountains of evidence that implicated the city.
come acrossWe came across a lovely little restaurant in the village.
[ Toften passive ]
to notice that a person has a special ability or quality and to help them to become successful: 发现并培养(人才)
Los Angeles is full of young actors working as waiters, hoping to be discovered by a movie agent.有很多年轻的演员在洛杉矶做服务员,他们希望能够被电影星探发现提携。
She was annoyed to discover that her husband had taken her car keys.她丈夫拿走了她的汽车钥匙,她发现后很生气。
They set out to discover a cure for cancer.他们开始寻找一种治愈癌症的方法。
Human rights campaigners have discovered documentary evidence of torture.人权活动家们已经发现了刑讯逼供的书面证据。
The cause of the accident may never be discovered.事故的原因也许永远无法查清。
Police discovered the body hidden in thick undergrowth.警察发现尸体被藏在一处浓密的灌木丛中。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Finding and discovering
ascertain
break (fresh/new) groundidiom
breakthrough
bring something to lightidiom
catch someone red-handedidiom
fossick
found
geocache
geocaching
get hold ofidiom
pinpoint
plumb
rake
rediscover
rediscovery
refind
refound
retrievable
sniff
uncover

Related word


discoverer

Examples of discovering


discovering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


There is a thrill in recognizing new anagrams, arbitrary though they may be, that resembles the thrill of discovering natural phenomena.
If one finds a model inadequate, discovering why it is inadequate can help the analyst identify sources of variation and bias.
The few women who were happy upon discovering their pregnancies did not think other people would share their feelings.
In practice, this capability is quite useful in discovering 'hard-to-find' bugs.
The present studies varied the conditions of testing and stimulus design to maximize the chance of discovering what else children might think /s/ means.
The second term, packaging, refers to the process of discovering which things can be packaged together under one label.
The discussions at this workshop came under many areas, including discovering the fundamental primitives of pervasive computing, understanding their semantics, and developing corresponding implementations.
And perhaps these cosmic laws, which take effect world-wide and throughout life, were worth discovering, to establish their effect also in great building works.
In this process, discovering, mapping, and cloning of mutations is a major task.
There is a need to devise methods aimed at learning and discovering knowledge by intelligently combining these distributed data and information sources.
The process of discovering and organizing categories and subcategories takes place during the open and the axial coding.
Axial coding is a more focused process than open coding and is geared toward the discovering and relating of subcategories to categories.
Discovering this relationship is important because it may explain how people form policy opinions with little political knowledge.
On the other, the walker emerges from the city, by discovering the boundaries between real and imagined, familiar and unfamiliar spaces.
However, the threat of oil-dependent nations discovering vast new reserves or developing energy policies that do not rely on fossil fuels looms on the horizon.
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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