looked
past simple and past participle oflook
| 单词 | looked |
| 释义 | looked past simple and past participle oflook look verb uk/lʊk/us/lʊk/lookverb(SEE)A1[I] todirectyoureyesinordertosee: Look! There'sgrandma. They lookedatthepictureandlaughed. Lookatall thesetoyson thefloor. She lookedupfrom herbookandsmiledat me. I looked out (of) thewindow. Look over there - there's arainbow! to look at someone or something
Using the eyes
lookverb(SEARCH)A1[I] totrytofindsomething or someone: I'm lookingformykeys. I lookedeverywhere, but I couldn'tfindmyglasses. Have you looked in thedictionary? I looked down thelistbut couldn'tseehisname. Synonyms hunt(SEARCH) search seek(SEARCH)formal to search for something
Searching
lookverb(SEEM)A2[L,Iusually+ adv/prep] toappearorseem: You look well! Theroadslook veryicy. Thatdresslooksniceon you. He hasstartedto look hisage(=appearasoldas he really is). It's looking good(= things are going well). He looked(like)afriendlysortofperson. Thetwinslook justliketheirmother. She lookedas if/thoughshe hadn'tsleptallnight. Itlookslikerain(= as if it is going torain).
Seeming and purporting to be
lookverb(DIRECTION)B2[Iusually+ adv/prep] tofaceaparticulardirection: Thegardenlookssouth. Thiswindowlooks out onto thelake.
Geography: scenery & views
lookverb(WARNING)[I] used when you aretellingsomeone to becarefulor topayattention: [+ question word]Lookwhereyou're going! Look at thetime- we're late! Paying attention and being careful
lookverb(HOPE)be looking to dosomething C2 to beplanningto do something: I'm looking tostartmy ownbusiness. Planning, expecting and arranging
GrammarLook We use the verb look to mean ‘turn our eyes in a particular direction to see something’. It is followed by at to refer to the person or thing which we see:…Lookas a linking verb We often use look as a linking verb like appear, be, become, seem. As a linking verb, look does not take an object and it is followed by a phrase or clause which gives more information about the subject (a complement):…Lookas a discourse marker We sometimes use look as a discourse marker but it needs to be used carefully as it is very strong. We use it when we are explaining something or making a point, especially when we are annoyed or speaking very forcefully:…Look at,seeorwatch? When we look at something, we direct our eyes in its direction and pay attention to it:…Look at When we look at something, we direct our eyes in its direction and pay attention to it:…See See means noticing something using our eyes. The past simple form is saw and the -ed form is seen:…Watchas a verb Watch is similar to look at, but it usually means that we look at something for a period of time, especially something that is changing or moving:…Look at, seeorwatch: typical errors When there is an object, we use at after look:…Idiomsbe looking for trouble be not much to look at I'm just looking look before you leap look daggers atsomeone look kindly onsomeone/something look lively/sharp! look on the bright side looksomeonein the eye/face look no further look out for number one look straight/right throughsomeone look toyourlaurels makesomeonelook small never look a gift horse in the mouth never look back Phrasal verbslook aftersomeone/something look ahead look around(somewhere/something) look atsomething look back look down onsomeone look forward tosomething look in look intosomething look on look on/uponsomeone/somethingassomething look out looksomethingout look out forsomeone/something look oversomething look round(somewhere/something) look throughsomething look tosomeoneto dosomething look tosomeoneforsomething look up looksomethingup looksomeoneup look up tosomeone Examplesoflookedlooked In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Specifically, onelookedat a faculty and its purpose: faculty; finality. From theCambridge English Corpus Unfortunately, there are so far no empirical studies which havelookedin detail at the distribution of s-genitives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From theCambridge English Corpus Theylookedremarkably fit but were prettily heavily dressed. From theCambridge English Corpus Why-querieslookeddownstream to the word that is the current goal. From theCambridge English Corpus The subjects directlylookeddown at the scenes, which were arranged either on tabletops or the floor. From theCambridge English Corpus The non-graduates already in placelookedfearfully at the arrival of graduates, anticipating the lack of further promotion and their fears were duly born out. From theCambridge English Corpus Welookedfor associated lesions in all the 13 hearts with bifoliate aortic valves. From theCambridge English Corpus Furthermore, the coinlookedvery unfamiliar and the fineness of the metal was not even close to that of ducats. From theCambridge English Corpus For example, the transport velocities at the last measuring stationlookedvery similar to the upstream flat plate profile. From theCambridge English Corpus We speculate that producerslookedat the size of the heads and not at the number of heads when they ranked this variety. From theCambridge English Corpus Similarly, when welookedat understandings of history, we ran into the same obstacle. From theCambridge English Corpus The current analysis merelylookedat the association between disorder pairs. From theCambridge English Corpus We normally assume that law practices can belookedup in the law books. From theCambridge English Corpus The problem in this case was that theylookedat overall frequencies, combining all verbs, which may have obscured some of the lexically specific relationships. From theCambridge English Corpus The results that were obtainedlookedpromising, but only small data sets were tested. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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