seize on

英 [siːz ɒn]

美 [siːz ɑːn]

对…大为关注; 抓住（有用的事物）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 对…大为关注;抓住(有用的事物)
  If youseize onsomething orseize uponit, you show great interest in it, often because it is useful to you.
  1. Newspapers seized on the results as proof that global warming wasn't really happening...
     各报纸纷纷以此结果为证据来证明全球变暖并没有真正发生。
  2. The main fear was that both sides may seize upon a ceasefire and free food aid to rearm.
     最担心的是双方可能利用停火和无偿食品援助的机会重整军备。

英英释义

verb

• adopt
  1. take up new ideas
  Synonym:take uplatch onfasten onhook on

双语例句

• Seize on its way, such as a letter.
  在中途抓住，比如一封信。
• But currency investors, many of them out of pocket after the recent twists and turns in US monetary policy, are ready to seize on dollar weakness.
  但外汇市场投资者已经做好了利用美元疲软走势的准备，他们中的很多人因近期美国货币政策曲折反复而蒙受了损失。
• The second difficulty is that many people have neither the time nor the inclination to filter out good or bad information they tend to seize on the scraps that suit them to bolster whatever their view is of the world.
  第二个难题是，很多人既没有时间也没有意向来甄别信息的好坏，他们倾向于抓住那些有助于支撑自己的世界观的信息碎片。
• To seize on the key industrial users to do our best to develop commonly;
  抓住重点工业用户，力求共同发展；
• We must seize on this "don't mind being supervised" and help such comrades by education and persuasion to overcome their lack of Party spirit.
  我们要抓他管也可以，对缺乏党性要说服教育。
• Mr Abe, who made his name by being tough on Pyongyang, was quick to seize on October's nuclear test as a way of rallying international support for sanctions.
  以对朝立场强硬闻名的安倍，迅速抓住朝鲜10月份核试，凝聚国际力量，支持对朝鲜进行制裁。
• But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
  不料、园户看见他儿子、就彼此说、这是承受产业的.来罢、我们杀他、占他的产业。
• Prosecutors cleared Lee Myung-bak of wrongdoing-but his rival still hopes to seize on popular skepticism about the frontrunner.
  检察官澄清了李明博的不良行为，但是，他的对手仍希望抓住大众对竞选领先者的怀疑态度（反击他）。
• It is not well placed to seize on a recovery in commodities.
  这使得该公司无法充分受益于大宗商品的复苏。
• We seize on his remark and regard it as a promise.
  我们抓住他的话把它当作是一种承诺。