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[N-COUNT 可数名词](长期艰难的)追求,探索,寻找 A quest is a long and difficult search for something.
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  [LITERARY 文]
  • My quest for a better bank continues.

    我继续寻找一家更好的银行。

  • ...his quest to find true love...

    他对真爱的不懈追寻

  • Waite spent his life on a spiritual quest.

    韦特毕生都在进行精神探索。

  • If you go in quest of something, you try to find or obtain it.寻找;寻求
    • He went on to say that he was going to New York in quest of peace...

      他接着说自己准备到纽约去寻求安宁。

    • The Puritans became fugitives in quest of liberty.

      清教徒变成了追求自由的逃亡者。


Oxford quest / kwest ; NAmE kwest /
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quest quests quested questing
noun quest(for sth) ( formal or literary) a long search for sth, especially for some quality such as happiness 探索,寻找,追求(幸福等) the quest for happiness/knowledge/truth 对幸福╱知识╱真理的追求 He set off in quest ofadventure. 他出行探险去了。 verb [intransitive ] quest(for sth) ( formal or literary) to search for sth that is difficult to find 探索;探求 quest / kwest ; NAmE kwest /
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questquest /kwest/ ●○○ noun [countable] literary
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1a long search for something that is difficult to findquest for his long quest for truth the quest for human happiness World leaders are now united in their quest for peace.2in quest of something trying to find or get something:  They journeyed to the distant Molucca islands in quest of spices.
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[kwest]quested, questing, quests

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探索(41%),寻求(29%),寻找(27%),搜索(3%)
n.追求;寻找
vt.探索
vi.追求;寻找
n.(Quest)人名;(德)奎斯特

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