辨析search和search for

search: [ s?:t? ]

n. 搜寻,探究

v. 搜寻,探求,调查

词形变化:

形容词:searchable 名词:searcher 动词过去式:searched 过去分词:searched 现在分词:searching 第三人称单数:searches

例句与用法:

1. We did a computer search for all the hyphenated words.

我们用电脑查找所有用连字符连接的词。

2. They searched the woods for the little boy.

他们在森林中搜寻到了那个小男孩。

3. Scientists are still searching for a cure to the common cold.

科学家仍在寻求治疗感冒的方法。

4. Where's the newspaper?' Search me, I haven't seen it.'

‘报纸在哪儿呢?’‘不知道, 我没看见.’

5. I want to search out an old school friend.

我想寻找我的一个老同学。

search for:

vt. 找寻(探索,探求)

例句与用法:

1. Scientists are searching for ways to destroy nuclear weapons powerless and no longer useful.

科学家们正在探索在空间摧毁核武器的方法－也就是使该武器失去威力或不再起作用。

2. We did a computer search for all the hyphenated words.

我们用电脑查找所有用连字符连接的词。

3. The soldiers fanned out across the hillside in their search for the man.

士兵们在山腰上成扇形散开，搜索那个男人。

4. He was rifling through her desk in a desperate search for the letter.

他拼命在她的书桌里搜寻那封信。

5. The company is casting its net wide in its search for a new sales director.

公司撒开大网到处物色新的销售主任.

6. All the ships in the vicinity of the crash joined in the search for survivors.

撞船事故发生地区的所有船只都参加了搜寻幸存者的工作。

7. The search for a new vaccine took priority over all other medical research.

在各种医药研究中, 应首先解决寻找新疫苗的问题.