on the lookout

观望中观望正在寻找监视

on the lookout 的定义

  1. Also, on the watch. Vigilant, alert, as in Be on the lookout for the twins—they're somewhere on this playground, or He was on the watch for her arrival. Both phrases were originally used with upon. Upon the lookout was originally nautical usage, meaning “on duty being watchful”; it appeared in the mid-1700s, and on replaced upon about a century later. Upon the watch was first recorded in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and on the watch in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

on the lookout 近义词

on the lookout

等同于 on the ball

on the lookout

等同于 attentive

on the lookout

等同于 politic

on the lookout

等同于 vigilant

on the lookout

等同于 wakeful

on the lookout

等同于 wary

on the lookout

等同于 wide-awake

on the lookout

等同于 on one's guard

on the lookout

等同于 cautious

on the lookout

等同于 open-eyed

on the lookout

等同于 unsleeping

on the lookout

等同于 alert

on the lookout

等同于 guarded

on the lookout

等同于 on guard

更多on the lookout例句

  1. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  2. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  3. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  4. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  5. You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
  6. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  7. You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
  8. Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
  9. I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
  10. They appreciated by now that he was not the kind to give up without a fight, therefore they were on the lookout.