quest

英 [kwest]

美 [kwest]

n.  探索，寻找，追求(幸福等)
v.  探索; 探求

复数：quests　现在分词：questing　过去式：quested　过去分词：quested　第三人称单数：quests　

CET6考研TOEFLIELTSGRETEM8

Collins.2 / BNC.6427 / COCA.4067

牛津词典

noun

• 探索，寻找，追求（幸福等）
  a long search for sth, especially for some quality such as happiness
  1. the quest for happiness/knowledge/truth
     对幸福 / 知识 / 真理的追求
  2. He set off in quest of adventure.
     他出行探险去了。

verb

• 探索；探求
  to search for sth that is difficult to find

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (长期艰难的)追求，探索，寻找
  Aquestis a long and difficult search for something.
  1. My quest for a better bank continues.
     我继续寻找一家更好的银行。
  2. ...his quest to find true love...
     他对真爱的不懈追寻
  3. Waite spent his life on a spiritual quest.
     韦特毕生都在进行精神探索。

英英释义

noun

• the act of searching for something
  1. a quest for diamonds
  Synonym:seeking
• a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
  1. the pursuit of love
  2. life is more than the pursuance of fame
  3. a quest for wealth
  Synonym:pursuitpursuance

verb

• express the need or desire for
  1. She requested an extra bed in her room
  2. She called for room service
  Synonym:requestbespeakcall for
• seek alms, as for religious purposes
• bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
  Synonym:bay
• search the trail of (game)
  1. The dog went off and quested
• make a search (for)
  1. Things that die with their eyes open and questing
  2. The animal came questing through the forest

双语例句

• She had suffered her own share of slings and arrows in the quest for publicity.
  在追求成名的道路上，她经历了许许多多的坎坷不平。
• All his social practices had something to do with his knowledge and quest for the western learning.
  穆藕初的所有社会实践都与对西学的认识和探索有关。
• You will be more alert on your internal and I thought processes and your quest for growth.
  你会更提高警觉，在您的内部和我以为的过程和您的追求增长。
• He apperceived this and denoted his life to quest for the truth of subject.
  福柯洞察到了这一危机，并把对主体真相的探求作为一贯的思想旨归。
• Philosophy is essentially not possession of the truth, but quest for the truth.
  哲学在本质上并非对真理的占有，而是对真理的探求。
• We always exaggerate people's quest for G.D.P.and undervalue their quest for ideals.
  我们总是夸大民众对GDP的需求并低估他们对理想的追求。
• This player already has this quest skill.
  此玩家已经学到了这个寻求的技能。
• I have not faltered in my quest for a new future
  我对新的未来的追求从未动摇过。
• Superpotent atom Smashers will undertake the quark quest in the1980s.
  超高效的粒子加速器将于80年代投入夸克探索的工作之中。
• The quest for a better life has run through the urban history of mankind.
  对更好生活的追求贯穿了人类的城市发展史。