find
美 [faɪnd]
英 [faɪnd] 
- v.(意外或偶然地)发现;找到;找回;(经寻找、研究或思考)发现
- n.被发现的人(尤指有趣、有价值或有用者)
- 网络查找;发觉;查找某文件
词形变化
过去式:found 第三人称单数:finds 现在分词:finding 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
偶然by chance
1. | [t] (意外或偶然地)发现,碰到to discover sb/sth unexpectedly or by chance |
| Look what I've found! 看我发现了什么! |
| We've found a great new restaurant near the office. 我们在办公处附近发现了一家挺好的新餐馆。 |
| A whale was found washed up on the shore. 一头鲸被发现冲到了岸上。 |
通过搜寻by searching
2. | [t] 找到;找回to get back sth/sb that was lost after searching for it/them |
| Can you find my bag for me? 你能帮我找我的包吗? |
| Can you find me my bag? 你能帮我找我的包吗? |
| I wanted to talk to him but he was nowhere to be found . 我想和他谈谈,但哪儿也找不到他。 |
| The child was found safe and well. 小孩找到了,安然无恙。 |
通过研究╱思考by studying/thinking
3. | [t] (经寻找、研究或思考)发现,查明,找出,求得to discover sth/sb by searching, studying or thinking carefully |
| scientists trying to find a cure for cancer 努力寻找癌症疗法的科学家 |
| I managed to find a solution to the problem. 我设法找出了解决问题的办法。 |
| I'm having trouble finding anything new to say on this subject. 在这个课题上要提出什么新看法,我有困难。 |
| Have they found anyone to replace her yet? 他们找到了代替她的人没有? |
| Can you find a hotel for me? 你能给我找一家旅馆吗? |
| Can you find me a hotel? 你能给我找一家旅馆吗? |
通过体验╱试验by experience/testing
4. | [t] 发现(某事属实)to discover that sth is true after you have tried it, tested it or experienced it |
| I find (that) it pays to be honest. 我发现老实人不吃亏。 |
| The report found that 30% of the firms studied had failed within a year. 据报告称,调查过的公司有 30% 一年内倒闭了。 |
| We found the beds very comfortable. 我们发现这些床非常舒适。 |
| They found him to be charming. 他们觉得他很招人喜欢。 |
| Her blood was found to contain poison. 她的血液中发现有毒素。 |
| It was found that her blood contained poison. 她的血液中发现有毒素。 |
有意见╱看法have opinion/feeling
5. | [t] 认为;感到to have a particular feeling or opinion about sth |
| You may find your illness hard to accept. 你可能觉得难以接受自己患病。 |
| You may find it hard to accept your illness. 你可能觉得难以接受自己患病。 |
| I find it amazing that they're still together. 他们还在一起,这使我大吃一惊。 |
| She finds it a strain to meet new people. 她和生人见面总感到局促不安。 |
现有;使现有have/make available
6. | [t] ~ sth 现有(可用)to have sth available so that you can use it |
| I keep meaning to write, but never seem to find (the) time. 我一直打算写信,但似乎总找不到时间。 |
| How are we going to find £5 000 for a car? 我们哪里有 5 000 英镑买车呢? |
处于意外状况in unexpected situations
7. | [t] (尤指意外地)发现,发觉(处于某状态、在做某事)to discover sb/sth/yourself doing sth or in a particular situation, especially when this is unexpected |
| She woke up and found herself in a hospital bed. 她醒来发觉自己躺在医院的床上。 |
| We came home and found him asleep on the sofa. 我们回到家发现他在沙发上睡着了。 |
| I suddenly found myself running down the street. 我不知不觉突然在街上跑了起来。 |
| I was disappointed to find that they had left already. 我发现他们已经离开了,觉得很失望。 |
达到;到达reach
8. | [t] ~ sth 自然到达;达到to arrive at sth naturally; to reach sth |
| Water will always find its own level. 水总会自行流平。 |
| Most of the money finds its way to the people who need it. 多数的钱都会辗转传到需要的人的手中。 |
| The criticism found its mark(= had the effect intended) . 批评击中了要害。 |
存在;生长exist/grow
9. | [t] ~ sth + adv./prep. (在某处)存在,生长used to say that sth exists, grows, etc. somewhere |
| These flowers are found only in Africa. 这些花仅见于非洲。 |
| You'll find this style of architecture all over the town. 全城到处可见这种风格的建筑。 |
法庭in court
10. | [t][i] 裁决;判决to make a particular decision in a court case |
| The jury found him guilty. 陪审团裁决他有罪。 |
| How do you find the accused? 你如何裁定被告? |
| The court found in her favour. 法庭判决对她有利。 |
1. | 发现物,被发现的人(尤指有趣、有价值或有用者)a thing or person that has been found, especially one that is interesting, valuable or useful |
| an important archaeological find 考古的重大发现 |
| Our new babysitter is a real find . 我们新来的临时保姆是难得的好保姆。 |
习惯用语
all found
(工资外)加免费食宿with free food and accommodation in addition to your wages
find fault (with sb/sth)
找茬儿;挑错;挑剔;抱怨to look for and discover mistakes in sb/sth; to complain about sb/sth
find your feet
已能独立而有信心地工作;已适应新环境to become able to act independently and with confidence
| I only recently joined the firm so I'm still finding my feet. 我最近才加入这家公司,所以还在适应过程中。 |
find it in your heart/yourself to do sth
能做某事;愿意干某事to be able or willing to do sth
| Can you find it in your heart to forgive her? 你能够做到宽恕她吗? |
| He couldn't find it in himself to trust anyone again. 他再也不愿意相信任何人了。 |
find your voice/tongue
能说出自己的看法;能表达自己的意见to be able to speak or express your opinion
find your way (to…)
找到正确的路(去某处)to discover the right route (to a place)
| I hope you can find your way home. 希望你能找到回家的路。 |
find your/its way (to/into…)
偶然来到;无意中处于to come to a place or a situation by chance or without intending to
| He eventually found his way into acting. 他弄到最后竟干起了演艺这一行。 |
take sb as you find them
接受某人的现状;承认某人的情况(别无指望)to accept sb as they are without expecting them to behave in a special way or have special qualities
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例句
It's true that once you get into the habit of smoking, you'll find it extremely difficult to get out of it.
你一旦养成了吸烟的习惯,再想戒烟就难了,这一点千真万确。
Sure, if you can excuse me for just a second. Let me find a piece of paper to write it down.
当然,你等我一下下,让我找张纸记下来。
Think of how much energy it takes to find reasons to blame the day's small problems on someone else.
想一想,在日常小事上,每天你需要花费多少精力寻找原因去责备别人。
Did not study, work, I am totally passionate easily crushed, the total find reason to say he was a girl.
没有对学习、工作完全充满热情的我易被摧垮,总找借口说自己是个女孩。
Perhaps in this world, you'll never find true love with you, you pay for everything, you will not know you left her pain is so deep. . .
也许在这个世界上,你将永远不会找到真爱与你,你付出的一切,你不会知道你离开她的痛苦是如此深…
I stopped talking to allow them to ask the doctor their question, only to find out they had come in just to listen to my conversation.
于是我便闭口不言,让他们先询问医生。谁曾想他们进来只是想当听众而已!
You are not trying to be a spoiled brat, you are trying to find where you naturally fit into the scheme of things.
你是不是想成为宠坏小子,你想找到你自然地融入计划的合适的事情。
He looked at the schedule of postal charges trying to find out how much he would have to pay.
他看着邮费价目表,想弄清楚得付多少钱。他们想安排一个紧凑的旅行日程。
If this all seems a bit daunting, find a work-life balance mentor -- someone who seems to have achieved this balance in their own life.
如果这似乎有些令人畏惧,找到一位生活-工作平衡方面的导师--即:某个似乎在自己生活中获得了平衡的人。
If you find it difficult to avoid the sun, just get a night shift job where you work all night and sleep all day.
如果你实大不想见到太阳,可以找一个夜班工作,天天晚上工作,白天睡觉。
"Give us a light, " said the other bearer, "or I shall never find what I am looking for. "
“照着我,畜生,”那个人又说,“不然我就看不到要找的东西啦。”
The odd thing is that America's politicians should find this attitude so hard to understand: their sentiments on the matter are the same.
奇怪的是,美国的政客们将会觉得这种态度非常难以理解:他们在这一问题上的情绪并无两样。
Although they are clear to see, it's easy to find plenty of hidden symbolic meanings in paintings.
虽然这些是很清楚地就可以从画上面看出来,但是画上面很容易地可以看出更多隐藏的符号。
Wish all that effort and experience , you will find there will be one day for you to become a nice nurse.
希望所有这些努力和经验,你会发现将有一天,你成为一个不错的护士。
This makes it a self-managing system, letting the reviews people find the most helpful to maintain their standing at the top of the list.
这已经成了一个自治系统,让那些人们觉得最有用的评论能保持在列表顶端。
They only went two blocks north to find that the SUV had come to a full stop because it had plowed into a newspaper stand.
向北追了两个街区后,他们发现那辆SUV停下来了,因为它撞上了一个报摊。
Let early education be a sort of a amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
初期教育应是一种娱乐,这样才更容易发现一个人天生的爱好。
Nor will the bank find itself with a hole in its balance sheet, even if it's difficult to see how the bond will ever be repaid.
这样做,建设银行的资产负债表上也不会有“窟窿”,即使这批债券的偿还希望渺茫。
I thought The Magic Bus would be a quiet, sad place to spend time - I was quite surprised to find the opposite was the case.
我原以为「魔法巴士」现场会感觉宁静而哀伤,却很意外情况恰恰相反。
More than any other underwater site so far, the find offers potential insights into the workings of Mycenaean society.
到目前为止与任何其他水下遗址相比,该发现能使人们对迈锡尼社会的运行方式有更多的理解。
We should find the poor little maid tossing upon her mattress, to the great disturbance of its other two occupants.
我们会发现,可怜的小妮子正在褥子上翻来覆去,弄得另外两个人也不得安宁呢。
If I have wit enough to find the way out of this wood, I have enough to serve my turn.
要是俺真聪明得能够走出这座树林子,那俺就已经很知足了。
I am determined to find out the secret of her silence toward her mother.
我得弄明白她为什么对她母亲守口如瓶。
She was ready to find excuses for him.
她替他找辩护的理由。
She had had no idea how ignorant she would find herself in comparison with her companions.
她没有想到与她的同伴们比起来她是多么无知。
When the woman awoke she was to find herself in the depths of a moonless and starless night.
当这个女人醒来的时候,她发觉自己置身在星消月隐的暗夜之中。
I'd like to ask his opinion but I find him difficult to approach.
我想征求他的意见,但发现很难和他谈得拢。
She had made several attempts to help them find other rental quarters, without success.
她多次想方设法,想替他们另外物色个住所,结果全落空了。
The island had been a good place to find shells.
这个岛一向是找寻贝壳的好地方。
They turned the place inside out but did not find the thief.
他们对那个地方进行了彻底搜查,但是没有发现那个小偷。
In case I am to find a few days in Africa between now and Christmas, I should like to see something of the new French Army.
如果在现在与圣诞节之间,我能够在非洲匀出几天时间,我希望视察一下法国的新陆军。
She did not find it wholly undesirable.
她发现这并不完全是令人不快的。
You can find him in one of these cheap places.
你可以在这些下流地方找到他。
He wanted ever so badly to read it; he would get at it the first opportunity and find out just what Jane had said.
他迫切地希望读一下;他一有机会就要去把它拾起来,看看简究竟说了些什么。
I began to find that I was not the only one who had conceived an unfavourable opinion of Mr. Washington.
这时,我开始发现,我并非唯一对华盛顿先生印象不好的人。
These shortcomings should be seen as natural consequences of Hawthorne's struggle to find his way in fiction without a guide.
霍桑是在无可借鉴的情况苦苦摸索如何写小说的,这些缺点自属必不可免。
You can find him in one of these cheap joints.
你可以在这些下流地方中找到他。
He decided to do all he could to produce a still higher vacuum and find out what happened then.
他决心尽一切力量造成更高的真空度,看看会有什么景象发生。
I was haunted by the fear that she would, sooner or later, find me out with a black face and hands, doing the coarsest part of my work.
我时刻提心吊胆,唯恐她迟早有一天会看见我这张乌黑的脸,这双乌黑的手,看见我正在干我最粗的活儿。
He began to feel then that Clem was there because he himself had placed him there for the men to find more easily.
他这时开始感到克莱姆所以会在那里,是因为自己把他打发来的,以便这帮人找起来更容易些。
You would soon find it out if I had not the honesty to confess it.
要是我不老老实实地承认这一点,那你很快也会觉察出来的。
Now the enemy is closing in and its ugly secret weapon has begun to find the aim.
敌人现已逼近,其凶险的秘密武器已开始寻找目标。
Time after time this afternoon she had searched her recollection of every single moment of the day to find some explanation.
今天下午,她曾一次又一次搜肠刮肚地回忆一天的经过,想找到一个解释。
He began to think that she had not died but that she was going to, unless he could find some way to prevent it.
渐渐地他就认为她并没有死,可他要是想不出法子加以挽救的话,眼看她是死定了。
All during the two thousand mile drive from Seattle, I had wondered what I would find of the farm where I had been reared.
从西雅图到这里两千英里的汽车旅途中,我就一直在想我会在那片曾经哺育过我的土地上找到什么呢。
Bette, full of her grievances, was glad to find a stranger ready to listen.
贝特能找到一个陌生人愿意听她的满腹牢骚倒是满高兴。
A whole regiment of crack C. I. D men had been thrown into the front lines to find out who he was.
为了查明真相,整整一个团的老练的罪犯调查部队人员被派到前线来。
A couple of days ago, the policemen yanked the man in on a small charge and began to find out about the jewel robbery.
几天前,警察以轻微罪行逮捕了那个男人并着手就珠宝抢劫案进行调查。
If you can find somebody else as good as you are, I'll free you up to do other things.
如果你能帮忙找到一个同你一样能干的人,我就把你解脱出来.让你干别的工作。
She would try once more to find out from her sore and lonely heart what she really wanted.
她要再一次弄清楚自己创楚和寂寞的心田里究竟真正希望的是什么。
Find the most up-to-date technical resources for your business integration needs on the WebSphere Business Integration zone.
上找到您的业务集成所需的大部分最新技术资源。
If you want to find out when a new service pack is available, you can fill out a simple online form to be added to my mailing list.
只要简单地填写一个在线表格把你列入我的发送名单中,当有新的服务包发行时,你就会得到通知。
"I decided I needed to find some sort of reason, " she said.
“我认为我要更加理性,”她说。
Desire to see things, as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity.
有志按事物的原貌来观察理解事物;有心寻找确凿的事实,收集储存以飨后人。
He offers this as a special case of the idea that geeks seem to be able to find each other across national, language and cultural barriers.
他提出了这个特例是想说黑客似乎能够彼此跨越国家、语言和文化障碍。
So, how do we take control of our emotions and find the path of Happiness? This seems to be the million dollar question.
于是,我们要如何来控制我们的情绪,进而发现通往幸福的捷径呢?这似乎是一个价值连城的问题。
One of these days you're going to wake up and find she's a woman. You won't even know her.
她不是个小孩子,总有一天会醒来,发现她已经是个女人了,你甚至不想了解她。
I thought Gary had made an error by challenging the press to tail him to see if they could find any dirt, but I felt bad for him, too.
我觉得加里犯了一个错误,因为他对媒体使激将法,要求媒体跟踪他,看能否发现他的任何不良行径,不过我也为他感到难过。
I thought you are the only one who understood me. But now when all the others know I'm upset, you are the only one who still don't find it.
我曾以为你是唯一懂我的人。但是现在所有人都知道我很沮丧都时候你是唯一一个没有发现的人。
She started it out of frustration at not being able to easily find affordable party bag presents for her own children's parties.
她创办这家公司是因为苦恼于无法为孩子派对找到价格适中的派对礼品袋。
If the user can't find the link which leads to a sign-up form, he also won't be able to sign up for your service.
如果用户找不到通往注册表单的链接,他可能就不会注册你的服务。
You could get the data in an element, work with its children, find out the value of an attribute. . . and that's really about it.
您可以从某个元素中获得数据,操作其子元素,找出某个属性的值等,全部都是这方面的操作。
If the Indy 500 teams are off by the thickness of a few sheets of paper, a once-front-running car can find itself laps down in a hurry.
如果印地500赛车有几张纸厚的调校出入也会让一度领先车手迅速败下阵来。
Buying a cycle is like buying clothes, first of all you find the right size and then you try it on to see if it fits.
买自行车像买衣服,首先你要找合适的尺寸,然后穿上去看看是否适合。
How much do you really know about marriage? Find out by answering the true or false questions.
你到底对婚姻真正有多少了解呢?回答下面的对错选择题会帮助你了解自己。
Virtually everyone has their own dreams, however, it is not easy to find their place in this competitive society.
几乎每个人都有自己的梦想,然而,这是不容易找到了他们的位置在这个竞争激烈的社会。
Justin: I think we ought to ask the coach to have it out with Joe and find out what his problem is.
贾斯廷:我想,我们该请教练和乔讲清楚,看看他有什么问题。
And the jar of pills he had, he said, were the tiniest little pills he could find, so small you could barely see them.
这罐药,他告诉我,是他能找到的最小的安慰药片,小到你几乎看不清它们。
Before you plan your travel route, why do not you call all of these places to find out if the apartment is still available?
在你们计划乘车路线之前,干吗不打个电话问问房子是不是还没有租出去?。
That must be wonderful cloth, if I dress in a suit made of this cloth, I can find out which men are unfit for their places or stupid.
如果我能够穿上这种布做成的衣服,我就能够找出我的王国里哪些人是不称职的,哪些人是愚蠢的。
Because there is nothing in himself, he hungers and thirsts that you would find something in him.
因为他出身一无所有,他又饥又渴希望你在他身上发现什么。
He traveled through many lands in that part of Europe where he would be most likely to find his master.
他走遍欧洲,他认为最可能找到他主人的许多地方。
She was tasting the sauce to find out whether it was salt or sugar she had put into it.
她正在尝调味汁的味道,看看她放进去的到底是盐还是糖。
Find out who has been stoking up the discontents among the public.
查一查是谁在公众中煽动不满情绪。
"I expect we'll find your girls there, " she said brightly.
“我估计我们会在体育馆里找到你的孩子,”她笑容满面地说。
The truth is, I can find no fault with you.
事实是,我挑不出你一点儿毛病。
I've hunted through the house but I cannot find my pen.
我整个房间都找遍了,也没找到我的钢笔。
He presumed upon his position to find his daughter a nice job.
他利用职权为其女儿找了一份好工作。
For each displacement component we find that there are only two values at the two ends of a boundary.
对每一位移分量,我们发现在一个边界的两端处仅有两个值。
In addition, it is often difficult to find a taxi at the busiest times of day, or when the weather is bad.
其次,在一天最繁忙的时刻,或天气恶劣时,往往很难雇到出租汽车。