費力地找
把獵物換成任何難找的東西：房子、工作、遺失的鑰匙。追的動作沒變，只是不再有動物。
hunt (search hard) · verb · B1
To look for someone or something very carefully and with a lot of effort.
尋找；搜尋
核心畫面
One way to picture hunt: you are after something that does not want to be found, and you keep going until you get it. Start with an animal being chased; take away the animal and the chase itself remains — searching hard for lost keys, tracking down a suspect, or the whole organised business of fox hunting.
可以想成 hunt 是「你在追一個不想被找到的東西，而且不追到不罷休」。從追動物這個畫面開始；把動物拿掉，那份「追」…更多收起
可以想成 hunt 是「你在追一個不想被找到的東西，而且不追到不罷休」。從追動物這個畫面開始；把動物拿掉，那份「追」還在——翻遍整間屋子找鑰匙、循線緝捕嫌犯，或是英國那一整套騎馬獵狐的活動。From the picture
追捕人犯
被追的換成人：警方或軍方循線搜索，目的是抓到對方——這裡的「追」帶著壓迫感，跟找東西的語氣不同。
hunt (pursue a criminal) · verb · B1
To search hard for a criminal or an enemy in order to catch them.
追捕；緝捕
英國的獵狐
同一個追捕的畫面被制度化成一項傳統活動：騎馬、帶狗、追狐狸，於是這個字同時可以指那個動作、那場活動，以及固定一起出獵的那群人。
fox hunting · verb · B1
To chase foxes on horses with a pack of dogs, as a British sport.
獵狐（騎馬狩獵）
Also in this word
hunt (chase animals) · verb · B1
To chase wild animals in order to catch or kill them, for food, fur, or sport.
打獵／獵捕
hunt (hunting event) · noun · B1
People going after wild animals to catch or kill them, as one whole event.
狩獵；打獵
原始詞典資料18 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。
Huntname/hʌnt/
- 1
An English surname originating as an occupation for a hunter (for game, birds etc).
- 2
rareA male given name transferred from the surname.
- 3
A placename
- 4
A placename
- 5
A placename
huntverb/hʌnt/
- 1
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
- Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.
- 2
To try to find something; search (for).
- The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
- The police are hunting for evidence.
- 3
To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- to hunt down a criminal
- He was hunted from the parish.
- 4
To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- Did you hunt that pony last week?
- He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.
- 5
To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
- He hunts the woods, or the country.
- 6
To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- 7
To shift up and down in order regularly.
- 8
engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
- […] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor to hunt with fluctuating speed.
huntnoun/hʌnt/
- 1
The act of hunting.
- Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.
- 2
A hunting expedition.
- 3
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- 4
A pack of hunting dogs.
- the rim at the base has a hunt of dogs and stags on a running scroll
- I've heard that back in the days of fox hunting, kennels would keep a “hunt” of foxhounds up in the 50 - 100 dog range.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。