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pursuing

/per-soo-ing/US // pərˈsu ɪŋ //

追求,追究,追求的,追击

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : following someone or something in order to overtake, capture, woo, etc.:Informed via radio that the alleged crime concerned an unpaid bill, the pursuing officers took down the vehicle's license plate information and stopped the chase.
    • : continuing to accompany or affect someone, as success, bad luck, or fame:They renewed their love, were once more torn apart by pursuing misfortune, but in the end were happily reunited.
    • : following or seeming to follow someone or something with one’s eyes, voice, thoughts, etc.:He stared fearfully at the pursuing eyes of a portrait on the wall.
    • : following or coming immediately after; ensuing: The program focuses on core courses in the first semester, and allows students to take their electives in the pursuing two semesters.

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Examples

  • One by one, the other band members join in, singing good-naturedly about how even though they miss company and activity, even though they’re pursued by melancholy, one day life will return to normal.

  • Once those events occur, the newly constituted committee will have to determine whether it wishes to continue pursuing the application for the grand-jury materials that gave rise to this case.

  • His focus was not, however, on the living situation but pursuing what he said had become his dream — becoming a pro gamer.

  • From director Anna Wilder Burns, Sailing Cita features young sailors Lauren Topchik and Teagan Tanner as they pursue a life of adventure by sail.

  • Mehring and Louis were pursuing similar ideas, but Mehring’s picture looks darker and thicker — more allover — than Louis’s.

  • So looking at that and that at that time I was also pursuing my career—so there was something here.

  • For officials like Brohi, pursuing the drug traffickers in Turbat would mean crossing a political minefield.

  • The final question we should ask: are they pursuing justice and the rule of law, or merely silencing those who embarrass them?

  • And unless Republicans start pursuing very different priorities in Congress, that prognosis could sting.

  • McCain said he, Corker, and Burr are also interested in pursuing more vigorous oversight of the Iran deal as well.

  • In pursuing his alchemical researches, he discovered Prussian blue, and the animal oil which bears his name.

  • All night long they expected to hear the roar of the pursuing guns, to find the sabers of the Dragoons flashing over their heads.

  • I shall therefore (pursuing his Idea of six Weeks) take it during the first tranquil six Weeks that it had, viz.

  • She did leap them, running from one to another in a manner confusing to herself and doubly so to Dorothy, pursuing.

  • Safety lies in pursuing my increasing practice, and devoting all my spare time to—well, to my real profession.