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quest

/kwest/US // kwɛst //UK // (kwɛst) //

追求,征求意见,探索,寻觅

Related Words

probe探测,探索,探测器,调查expedition远征,征战,征程,远征队adventure冒险,探险,历险,冒险之旅hunt狩猎,猎杀,打猎,猎取research研究,研究工作,科研,研究报告crusade讨伐,讨伐行动,讨伐活动,讨伐运动journey旅程,旅行,行程,旅途inquiry询问,查询,调查,询询investigation调查,调研,调查报告,调查情况chase追逐,追赶,追追追,追寻pursuit追求,追逐,追寻,追捕voyage航行,航程,旅行,航次inquest审讯,研讯,研判,审问quarry采石场,石矿场,石场,石料场seeking寻求,寻找,谋求,寻觅mission任务,使命,使命感,宗旨inquisition宗教裁判所,刑讯,宗教法庭,宗教审判examination考试,检查,考查,检验enterprise企业,企业的,企业的发展prey猎物,捕食者,牺牲者,牺牲品

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
    • : Medieval Romance. an adventurous expedition undertaken by a knight or knights to secure or achieve something: the quest of the Holy Grail.
    • : those engaged in such an expedition.
    • : British Dialect. inquest.
    • : Obsolete. a jury of inquest.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to search; seek: to quest after hidden treasure.
    • : to go on a quest.
    • : Hunting. to search for game.to bay or give tongue in pursuit of game.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to search or seek for; pursue.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsearch, exploration
Forms: quests
Synonyms
adventure冒险,探险,历险,冒险之旅chase追逐,追赶,追追追,追寻crusade讨伐,讨伐行动,讨伐活动,讨伐运动expedition远征,征战,征程,远征队hunt狩猎,猎杀,打猎,猎取inquiry询问,查询,调查,询询investigation调查,调研,调查报告,调查情况journey旅程,旅行,行程,旅途probe探测,探索,探测器,调查pursuit追求,追逐,追寻,追捕research研究,研究工作,科研,研究报告delving深入了解,深入研究,仔细研究,深究enterprise企业,企业的,企业的发展examination考试,检查,考查,检验inquest审讯,研讯,研判,审问inquisition宗教裁判所,刑讯,宗教法庭,宗教审判mission任务,使命,使命感,宗旨prey猎物,捕食者,牺牲者,牺牲品probing探测,探探,探查,试探pursual追求,追踪,追究,追逐quarry采石场,石矿场,石场,石料场seeking寻求,寻找,谋求,寻觅voyage航行,航程,旅行,航次pilgrimmage朝圣之旅,朝圣,朝圣者,朝圣活动

Examples

  • Nobody should have to face repression in their quest for freedom.

  • This has also led DeFi traders to hop around to different exchanges in their yield farming quest, sometimes with disastrous results.

  • This heartwarming documentary follows the life of Saskatchewan-born model Ashley Luther, aka Elly Mayday, and her quest to champion the body positivity movement in an industry that really didn’t want to hear it.

  • The last thing that most people would do is call poker, with its competition, its winners and losers, its quest to gain the maximum edge over your opponent, a haven of safety.

  • Powered by this strong financial incentive, the quest for automation is growing ever more pervasive.

  • Our quest for better leaders—“Change we can believe in”— is wishful thinking.

  • In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.

  • Hammerstein continued his subtle quest for racial equanimity in Oklahoma!

  • But sometimes, the quest for facts lets us down, or leads us astray, and leaves us worse off than before, not better.

  • She began her quest for equal rights shortly after her three-month sentence.

  • They had searched Mortlake House for Alice, and that vain quest had not wasted more than half-an-hour.

  • There he stood still for a few seconds and looked around him as if in quest of something.

  • He was sent from one place to another, in quest of his friend, and made diligent use of his long legs, but without success.

  • In this quest many paintings, sculptures, and inscriptions were destroyed or defaced of which no record has been preserved.

  • The Englishman went to see how big the tiger was while I led Kari in quest of my broken flute.

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