音标:[kwest] ; 柯林斯词典等级:2 级;
n. 探索, 寻求, 调查
v. 寻找, 找, 追寻猎物
n. the act of searching for something
v. make a search (for)
v. search the trail of (game)
v. seek alms, as for religious purposes
词型变化:名词复数形式 : quests ; 现在分词 : questing ; 过去式 : quested ; 过去分词 : quested ; 第三人称单数 : quests
考试类型:[六级/考研/托福/IELTS/GRE]
词性分布:
名词99%
动词1%

quest的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. This fruitless quest was called alchemy by the Arabs.这种无谓的的探索被阿拉伯人称作炼金术。
  2. Man will suffer many disappointments in his quest for truth.人类在探索真理过程中必然会遭受挫折。
  3. The quest for gold was difficult.寻找金矿是很困难的。
  4. The lawyer was on a quest for further evidence.律师正在到处找寻更多的证据。
  5. Martin Luther King made many adversaries in his nonviolent quest for equality.马丁·路德·金在以非暴力手段寻求平等的过程中树立了许多敌人。
用作动词(v.)
  1. He decided to go on and continue with his quest.他决定继续前进,继续寻找问题的答案。
  2. The quest for gold was difficult.寻找金矿是很困难的。
  3. The fresh air was as welcome to his lungs as the policeman's quest to his mood.他的肺部之喜爱新鲜空气,正如他的性情之喜爱警察的搜索工作一样。
  4. Mathematicians have developed many algorithms to help in the quest, including New-ton-Raphson and Muller search methods.数学家们发展了许多算法来帮助求解,包括牛顿一辛普森法和米勒搜索法。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)
  1. Man will suffer many disappointments in his quest for truth.人类在探索真理过程中必然会遭受挫折。
用作动词(v.)
用作不及物动词S+~(+A)
  1. He is questing about for game.他在到处寻求猎物。

常用短语

用作名词(n.)
in quest of
    为了寻求 an attempt to find sth

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)
形容词+~
  • the continuing quest不懈的探索
介词+~
  • be on a blind quest盲目寻求
~+介词
  • the quest for knowledge寻求知识

经典引文

  • They were looking for me and I wished them joy of their quest.

    出自:J. Buchan
  • Oppressed people in their quest for freedom.

    出自:M. L. King
  • We might..go in quest of leaf-mould, in our local woods.

    出自:E. Blishen
  • Beneath his conscious thoughts his senses were questing for enemies.

    出自:I. Fleming
  • A car could be heard going slowly by, turning and coming past again, still questing.

    出自:E. Bowen
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学英语单词
adaptive-optics
additional commitment
amorphous phase
analog sound
anaphorically
annalized
antirevolution
arrow root starch
Atlas rocket
Bannesdorf auf Fehmarn
binder modification
braine le comte
callback
Candin
cantral terminal unit
cash ratio deposits
Cassoalala
circulation integral
collection service
continuing professional education (cpe)
continuous string
convolute mineralization
cubic-lattice cell
differents
dining-table
dioxygens
drp
easy bilge
elasto-plastic system
Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros
final periods
fireband
formed stool
garbage trucks
Geesteren
give it another brush
greenish-grey
Hemerocallis forrestii
heparphosphotides
hexagonal-close-packed
Hochkalter
hoof-pick
hourglass curve
Imidazolo-2-Idrossibenzoate
induplication
infiltration tunnel
International Meeting of Marine Radio Aids to Navigation
Joliet, Louis
juvenile sulfur
kachang puteh
Kyaikpi
Lhenice
lifting and moving equipment
long hundred
Luchki
made for life
maquiladoras
Mary Queen of Scots
megaton bomb
metering characteristic of nozzle
mixed mode
modulation reference level
moneyhatting
NATO phonetic alphabet
nested scope
nonnarcotics
olpc
Phosphor Bronze Strip
physical distance measuring
postgena
premires
Processing loss
pyloric stenosis
queueing network model
rapid growths
re-activating
redundant recording
reheat steam conditions
right elevation
Roig, C.
rosenstiel
Rubus mesogaeus
san juan de camarones
sedentary polychaete
shikimic acid
standard specific volume
Staphylininae
sterile food
sweet basils
swing tow
temperature - sensitive mutant
the furies
top-blown
turnover ratio of accounts payable
uninstructively
united parcel service
water-stage transmitter
wax-bill
white firs
Wirrega
yellow-backeds
youthward