Seeking

(noun.) an attempt to acquire or gain something.

布兰得利整理

• Its great interest for the history of thought lies in the fact that it is the result of seeking the constant in the variable, the unitary principle in the multiple phenomena of nature. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The doctor-seeking messenger meets the doctor halfway, coming under convoy of police. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• All the unowned dogs who stray into the Inns of Court and pant about staircases and other dry places seeking water give short howls of aggravation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• These ascetics were all supposed to be seeking some deeper reality in life, and a passionate desire to do likewise took possession of Gautama. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But in music there was nothing which tended to that good which you are now seeking. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It is seeking, a quest, for something that is not at hand. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They even have in it a grotto wherein twenty thousand children were slaughtered by Herod when he was seeking the life of the infant Saviour. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• And busily, in my own mind, I ran over the list of our inmates, seeking this paragon, this pearl of great price, this gem without flaw. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Only base and self-seeking people supported him, because he seemed to have the secret of success. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I felt from the first it was me he wanted--me he was seeking--and had not I wanted him too? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Such is the condition of our laws and practice that the patentee in seeking to enforce his rights labors under a terrible handicap. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It provided the only hope of moral solidarity he could discern in the great welter of narrow views and self-seeking over which he had to rule. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We must go in different directions, seeking aid. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• There are soldiers all round the place, seeking for their work now it is too late. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• For all the other seekings of that impulse what has the Commission to offer? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

校对:迈克尔