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sights

/sahyt/US // saɪt //UK // (saɪt) //

景点,风景,景观,景点介绍

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
    • : an act, fact, or instance of seeing.
    • : one's range of vision on some specific occasion: Land is in sight.
    • : a view; glimpse.
    • : mental perception or regard; judgment.
    • : something seen or worth seeing; spectacle: the sights of London.
    • : Informal. something unusual, surprising, shocking, or distressing: They were a sight after the fight.
    • : Commerce. presentation of a bill of exchange: a draft payable at two months after sight.a showing of goods, especially gems, held periodically for wholesalers.
    • : Older Use. a multitude; great deal: It's a sight better to work than to starve.
    • : an observation taken with a surveying, navigating, or other instrument to ascertain an exact position or direction.
    • : any of various mechanical or optical viewing devices, as on a firearm or surveying instrument, for aiding the eye in aiming.
    • : Obsolete. skill; insight.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to see, glimpse, notice, or observe: to sight a ship to the north.
    • : to take a sight or observation of, especially with surveying or navigating instruments.
    • : to direct or aim by a sight or sights, as a firearm.
    • : to provide with sights or adjust the sights of, as a gun.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to aim or observe through a sight.
    • : to look carefully in a certain direction.

Phrases

  • sight for sore eyes, a
  • sight unseen
  • at first blush (sight)
  • at sight
  • can't stand the sight of
  • catch sight of
  • heave into sight
  • in sight
  • know by sight
  • lose sight of
  • love at first sight
  • lower one's sights
  • on sight
  • out of sight
  • raise one's sights
  • second sight
  • see the sights
  • set one's sights on
  • twenty-twenty hindsight

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Now Jeff Bezos has focused his sights on populating distant galaxies.

  • Many of the women also claimed they were in emotionally vulnerable states when Cosby allegedly set his sights on them.

  • I was with a reporter, Lenny Bernstein, whom she had caught in her sights.

  • An international brand is in her five-year plan, and most things this young designer sets her sights on tend to come true.

  • Billionaire Michael Bloomberg already had the gun lobby in his sights.

  • This reading secures scarcely anything more than a succession of sights to the eye or sounds to the ear.

  • MacRae's seat, stone-marker, and aboriginal spearhead; the three lined up like the sights of a modern rifle.

  • This was his first journey into the country, and the many strange sights drew exclamations of surprise and wonder from him.

  • Drunkards are not frequent sights in the Quarter; and yet when these people do get drunk, they become as irresponsible as maniacs.

  • He had come up from Nancy that morning, and had since occupied the time in strolling about seeing the sights of the little place.