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Meaning Germanic German 14c C Late Attested Back

正面 604.look
英 [lʊk]美 [lʊk]

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释义:
vt. 看;期待;注意;面向;看上去像vi. 看;看起来;注意;面向n. 看;样子;面容n. (Look)人名;(瑞典)洛克;(英)卢克
例句:
1. It was just then that I chanced to look round.就在那时,我恰好环顾了下四周。

1. oo--长得好象一对大眼睛如:look--看.2. 一(l)双大大的眼睛(oo)盯着看(k) ==> look.
look 看词源不详。
looklook: [OE] For such a common word, look is surprisingly isolated. It goes back to prehistoric West Germanic *lōkōjan, which has no other descendants in the modern Germanic languages, and its only distant relative is the German verb lugen ‘show, be visible’.look (v.)Old English locian "use the eyes for seeing, gaze, look, behold, spy," from West Germanic *lokjan (cognates: Old Saxon lokon "see, look, spy," Middle Dutch loeken "to look," Old High German luogen, German dialectal lugen "to look out"), of unknown origin, perhaps cognate with Breton lagud "eye." In Old English, usually with on; the use of at began 14c. Meaning "seek, search out" is c. 1300; meaning "to have a certain appearance" is from c. 1400. Of objects, "to face in a certain direction," late 14c. Look after "take care of" is from late 14c., earlier "to seek" (c. 1300), "to look toward" (c. 1200). Look into "investigate" is from 1580s; look up "research in books or papers" is from 1690s. To look down upon in the figurative sense is from 1711; to look down one's nose is from 1921. To look forward "anticipate" is c. 1600; meaning "anticipate with pleasure" is mid-19c. To not look back "make no pauses" is colloquial, first attested 1893. In look sharp (1711) sharp originally was an adverb, "sharply."look (n.)c. 1200, "act or action of looking," from look (v.). Meaning "appearance of a person" is from late 14c. Expression if looks could kill ... attested by 1827 (if looks could bite is attested from 1747)."

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