run after
追赶,追寻,追赶超越,追逐
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informal
- : to pursue with persistent attention
- : to pursue persistently
- : to care for in an excessively attentive or servile wayshe runs after her three grown sons as if they were babies
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As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
The decision not to run the cartoons is motivated by nothing more than fear: either fear of offending or fear of retaliation.
Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.
The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
When these last words of his were interpreted to her, she started, made as if she would run after him, but checked herself.