在《新概念英语》第二册第37课的难点部分出现了有关look的动词短语的用法,今天就来梳理分享一下有关look的常见常考短语的用法。
一、look forward to
该短语表示“期望;期待”,注意to是个介词,所以后接动词时要采用动名词(即-ing)的形式。如:
We look forward to the return of spring. (我们期待着春天的到来。)
I look forward to paying you a visit next week. (我期待着下星期去拜访你。)
二、look out
该短语主要表示“留神;小心”,而且经常直接用作提示语,单独成句。如:
Look out! The pan of milk is bubbling over! (小心!那锅牛奶溢出来了!)
但是,look out也可以像下面的句子一样,用作句子的谓语:
Do look out for spelling mistakes when you check your work. (你检查作业时,一定要当心拼写错误。)
【注意】
当look out与of连用时,不再表示“留神;小心”,而是表示“往外看”。如:
Looking out of the window, I see a lot of children play and yell. (我从窗口往外张望时,看到许多小孩一面玩耍一面叫嚷。)
三、look up
该短语主要表示“查阅;仰视;看望”。如:
查阅:You can look up this word in the vocabulary. (你可以在词汇表里查这个词。)
仰视:He lay on his back and looked up at the sky. (他仰卧著观看天空。)
看望:I shall certainly look up all my old friends when I go back home. (我回家的时候,当然要去看望我所有的老朋友。)
当look up与介词to连用时,表示的是“尊敬;敬仰”。如:
The children all look up to the baseball player. (这些孩子都很敬仰那名棒球运动员。)
四、更多相关短语
(一)look at
该短语表示“看着”,相当于have a look at。如:
Let me rest a while and look at the view. (让我歇一会儿,看看这景色。)
(二)look for
该短语表示“寻找”,相当于search for。如:
He thumbed through the directory to look for her number. (他翻阅电话号码簿找寻她的号码。)
(三)look after
该短语表示“照顾;看管”,相当于take care of。如:
They employed her to look after the baby. (他们聘请她照料婴儿。)
(四)look into
该短语表示“浏览;调查”。如:
浏览:They stopped to look into the window. (他们停下来看看橱窗。)
调查:A working party has been set up to look into the problem. (已成立工作组调查该问题。)
(五)look down
该短语表示“俯视;轻视”。注意,当look down表示“轻视”时,其用法为:look down on/upon,或者look down one's nose at。如:
俯视:The director look down at the actor from the dolly. (导演从摄影车上看下面的演员。)
轻视:Her parents told her not to look down upon countrymen. (她父母叫她不要瞧不起乡下人。)
轻视:He looked down his nose at the offer. (他对这个建议嗤之以鼻。)
(六)look over
该短语主要表示“检查”。如:
Look over the exercises before handing them in. (把练习再检查一遍。)
(七)look through
该短语主要表示“看穿;检查”。如:
看穿:He looked through a pane of glass. (他从一块玻璃看过去。)
检查:We'd better go and look through his luggage. (咱们还是去翻翻他的行李吧。)
(八)look on
该短语表示“看待;旁观”。如:
看待:I used to look on him as a friend. (我以前把他看作是一位朋友。)
旁观:In no case will they look on passively. (他们决不会在一边看热闹。)
(九)look to
该短语常用在“look to it that...”结构中,表示“留心;注意”。如:
Look to it that you make no more similar mistakes. (注意今后你不要再犯类似的错误了。)
(十)look like
该短语表示“看起来像”。如:
He called me a copy cat just because my new shoes look like his. (只因我的新鞋子象他的,他就说我的模仿他。)
(十一)look around
该短语表示“环视;东张西望”。如:
I just want to look around and see if I can get any gifts to take home. (我只是想随便看看,看能不能买到什么礼品带回国去。)
(十二)look back
该短语表示“回顾;回头看”。注意当look back表示“回顾”时,常后接介词on或to。如:
回头看:On and on he ran, never daring to look back. (他直往前跑,怎么也不敢回头看。)
回顾:I like to look back on my high-school days, which were the happiest in my life. (我喜欢回顾我的中学时代,那是我生命中最快乐的时光。)
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