explore

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v. 探险, 探测, 探究

发音

UK /ɪkˈsplɔː/
US /ɪkˈsploɹ/
/ɪkˈsplo(ː)ɹ/
/ɪkˈsploə/

词形变化

explores 复数 explored explores 三单 explores explorest exploreth exploring exploring 现在分词 explored 过去式 explored 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

探索;探测;探险

to discuss or think about something carefully

Management need to explore ways of improving office security.

管理层需要探讨如何加强办事处的安全措施。

I'm going to explore the possibility of a part-time job.

我要好好想想兼职工作的可能性。

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.

    非正式
v. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To seek for something or after someone.

    不及物 废旧
  2. 2.

    To examine or investigate something systematically.

    探索

    探险

    及物

    The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.

  3. 3.

    To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

    及物

    It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.

  4. 4.

    To examine diagnostically.

    不及物 医学
  5. 5.

    To (seek) experience first hand.

    及物

    It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.

  6. 6.

    To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

    不及物

    He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance.

  7. 7.

    To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

    不及物

    The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.

  8. 8.

    To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.

    及物

词汇关系

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Latin plōrō Latin explōrōder. Middle French explorerder. English explore From Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).

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