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词组 seek
释义 seek
      The verb seek is frequently used with after or for. After tends to occur most often with the past participle sought in an idiomatic passive, but active use also occurs. For is common with all tenses and voices.
      ... he was much sought after on account of his wide reading —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929
      ... Namath was the one collegiate player most sought after by professional teams —Current Biography, December 1966
      "... If the effect of his behaviour does not justify him with you, we had better not seek after the cause." —Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
      These differences are by no means so evident to (or so sought for by) a majority of peoples of non-European origin —Weston La Barre, The Human Animal, 1954
      Now he learns to talk and thereby joins the Republic of Learning, a republic composed of men who seek for meaning —Stringfellow Barr, Center Mag., March 1968
      Seek is also commonly followed by to and an infinitive:
      We can seek to perpetuate the myths or to focus on the real issues —Leslie H. Gelb & Morton H. Hal-perin, Harper's, November 1971
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