explore

英 [?k'spl??; ek-] 美[?k'spl?r]

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第三人稱單數:?explores;過去式:?explored;過去分詞:?explored;現在分詞:?exploring;

explore 探索

ex-, 向外。-plor, 大叫，哭喊，詞源同deplore. 原指獵人在打獵時通過叫聲把鳥趕出山林，后詞義引申為探索。

explore: explore: [16] Etymologically, to explore is to look for something by shouting. The word comes ultimately from Latin explorare ‘investigate’, which was based on the verb plorare ‘wail, cry out’ (source also of English deplore [16] and implore [16]), and it is thought that the word’s original scenario may have been hunters shouting to flush out (Latin ex- ‘out’) their quarry.
=> deplore, implore
explore (v.): 1580s, "to investigate, examine," a back-formation from exploration, or else from Middle French explorer (16c.), from Latin explorare "investigate, search out, examine, explore," said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "set up a loud cry," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + plorare "to weep, cry." Compare deplore. Second element also is explained as "to make to flow," from pluere "to flow." Meaning "to go to a country or place in quest of discoveries" is first attested 1610s. Related: Explored; exploring.

1. I would creep in and with stealthy footsteps explore the second-floor.: 我會偷偷溜進去，輕手輕腳地查看一下二樓。

2. The two hotel-restaurants are attractive bases from which to explore southeast Tuscany.: 對于去托斯卡納東南部探險的人們來說，這兩家酒店是很有吸引力的駐扎地。

3. I just wanted to explore Paris, read Sartre, listen to Sidney Bechet.: 我就想逛逛巴黎，讀讀薩特的作品，聽聽悉尼·貝謝的音樂。

4. Children use fantasy to explore worrying aspects of real life.: 孩子們用幻想來探索實際生活中令人不安的各種事情。