/sɜ:tʃ ||; sɝtʃ/verb
[I,T] search (sb/sth) (for sb/sth);search (through sth) (for sth) to examine sb/sth carefully because you are looking for sth; to look for sth that is missing 搜查;搜索;搜寻 ·
The men were arrested and searched for drugs.那几个男子被逮捕并搜身,看看是否带有毒品。Were your bags searched at the airport?你的包在机场被搜查了吗?They are still searching for the missing child.他们仍然在搜寻那个失踪的儿童。She searched through the papers on the desk, looking for the letter.她翻遍桌子上的文件,寻找那封信。I started searching the Web for interesting sites.我开始了在万维网上搜寻有趣的网站。
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/sɜ:tʃ ||; sɝtʃ/noun
1 [C,U] an act of trying to find sb/sth, especially by looking carefully for him/her/it 搜寻;搜查;搜索:
the search for the missing boy搜寻那个失踪的儿童She walked round for hours in search of (= looking for) her missing dog.她到处转了几个小时,寻找她那条失踪的狗。
2 [C] (computing计算机技术) an act of looking for information in a computer DATABASE or NETWORK 查找;搜索;检索:
to do a search on the Internet在因特网上查找a search engine(= a program that does searches)检索引擎