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/ˈsiːkər/ · /ˈsiːkə/
Someone who is looking for a particular thing they want or need.
尋求者
複數 seekers
核心畫面
Someone already out looking — the thing they want is not in their hands yet, and they are moving toward it. The word almost never stands alone; it hangs onto whatever is being looked for: a job seeker, an asylum seeker, a thrill seeker.
可以想成:一個已經在找的人——想要的東西還沒到手,人正朝著它移動。這個字很少單獨出現,通常前面掛著「在找什麼」:jo…更多收起
可以想成:一個已經在找的人——想要的東西還沒到手,人正朝著它移動。這個字很少單獨出現,通常前面掛著「在找什麼」:job seeker(求職者)、asylum seeker(尋求庇護者)、thrill seeker(追求刺激的人)。看到 -seeker 結尾,就先去找前面那個名詞。原始詞典資料4 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。
Seekernoun
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historicalChristianityA member of an English Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s; they considered organised churches to be corrupt and preferred to wait for God's revelation.
seekernoun/ˈsiːkə/
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One who seeks.
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Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.
- But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
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In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.
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。