去查資料
把「知道答案的來源」從人換成紙：字典、地圖、時刻表。動作完全一樣，你走過去、打開它、把答案取出來，只是這次對面沒有人。
look up information · verb · C1
To look at a book, map, or other written source in order to find information.
查閱；查詢(資料、書籍等)
核心畫面
Picture yourself stuck on something and deliberately going to a place where the answer is kept — a doctor's room, a colleague's desk, a page in a manual. You do not just wonder; you go and ask. Consult is that turning-to-a-source, and it is a formal word for it.
可以想成：你卡住了，於是特地走向一個「知道答案的地方」——醫生的診間、同事的位子、手冊裡的某一頁。你不是自己猜，是去…更多收起
可以想成：你卡住了，於是特地走向一個「知道答案的地方」——醫生的診間、同事的位子、手冊裡的某一頁。你不是自己猜，是去問。consult 就是這個「轉向一個來源去要答案」的動作，語氣偏正式，書面和職場場合最常見。From the picture
Also in this word
seek professional advice · verb · C1
To go to a professional person, such as a doctor or a lawyer, and ask them for advice or help.
諮詢；請教(專業人士)；求診
discuss before deciding · verb · C1
To talk with someone about something before you decide what to do, so that you can find out what they think.
商量；徵詢(意見)；與…商討
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
consultnoun/ˈkɒnsʌlt/
- 1
A visit to consult somebody, such as a doctor; a consultation.
- 2
obsoleteThe act of consulting or deliberating; consultation.
- For firſt upon conſult of reaſon, there will bee found no eaſie aſſurance for to faſten a materiall or temperamentall propriety upon any nation; […]
- 3
obsoleteThe result of consultation; determination; decision.
- [T]he council broke; / And all their grave conſults diſſolv'd in ſmoke.
- 4
obsoleteA council; a meeting for consultation.
- a consult of coquettes
- 5
obsoleteAgreement; concert.
consultverb/ˈkɒnsʌlt/
- 1
To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise.
- Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.
- 1661 (written), published in 1681, Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons.
- 2
To advise or offer expertise.
- Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is.
- 3
To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
- 4
To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person)
- If you have no library commission, consult a lawyer and get from him a careful statement of what can be done under present statutory regulations.
- 5
To refer to (something) for information.
- Which reminds me that I have never remembered from that hour to consult the dictionary upon a selvage.
- Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature, to seek for new truths, to do what the great discoverers of other times had done; they were content to consult libraries.
- 6
To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
- We are […] to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.
- 7
obsoleteTo deliberate upon; to take for.
- Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.
- 8
obsoleteTo bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
- Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。