seize on

英 [siːz ɒn]

美 [siːz ɑːn]

对…大为关注; 抓住（有用的事物）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 对…大为关注;抓住(有用的事物)
  If youseize onsomething orseize uponit, you show great interest in it, often because it is useful to you.
  1. Newspapers seized on the results as proof that global warming wasn't really happening...
     各报纸纷纷以此结果为证据来证明全球变暖并没有真正发生。
  2. The main fear was that both sides may seize upon a ceasefire and free food aid to rearm.
     最担心的是双方可能利用停火和无偿食品援助的机会重整军备。

英英释义

verb

• adopt
  1. take up new ideas
  Synonym:take uplatch onfasten onhook on

双语例句

• So in order to understand the question of the motive forces of social development, we must seize on the main contradiction, or find out the main motive force of social development.
  因此，要理解社会发展的动力问题，必须抓住主要矛盾，找出社会发展的主要动力。
• In conditions of ignorance, people seize on any information available, even if their reason should tell them that it is irrelevant.
  在一无所知的情况下，人们会抓住一切可以获得的信息，即便理智告诉他们这些信息是不相关的。
• If you think your idea has potential, seize on it immediately.
  如果您认为您的想法有潜力，抓住它立即。
• Prosecutors cleared Lee Myung-bak of wrongdoing-but his rival still hopes to seize on popular skepticism about the frontrunner.
  检察官澄清了李明博的不良行为，但是，他的对手仍希望抓住大众对竞选领先者的怀疑态度（反击他）。
• The main fear was that both sides may seize upon a ceasefire and free food aid to rearm.
  最担心的是双方可能利用停火和无偿食品援助的机会重整军备。
• Presently, he cites an example and you seize on it.
  不久他举了一个例子，而你抓住了它。
• But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
  不料、园户看见他儿子、就彼此说、这是承受产业的.来罢、我们杀他、占他的产业。
• But currency investors, many of them out of pocket after the recent twists and turns in US monetary policy, are ready to seize on dollar weakness.
  但外汇市场投资者已经做好了利用美元疲软走势的准备，他们中的很多人因近期美国货币政策曲折反复而蒙受了损失。
• He must seize on a solution, however risky.
  他总得采取一个解决办法，不管这个办法如何危险。
• He used gunpowder to seize both on the underdeveloped continents of Asia and africa.
  他依仗着火药的力量在落后的亚、非洲进行掠夺。