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

• Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, is planning to seize on the writers 'strike to eliminate what he sees as extravagances in the way Hollywood makes and promotes television.
  NBC环球（NBCUniversal）首席执行官杰夫•朱克（JeffZucker）计划利用编剧罢工的机会，根除他眼中好莱坞电视制作与宣传的铺张方式。
• When my elder son was little he would seize on these bands and add them to the giant rubber band ball he was making.
  在我的大儿子小的时候，他会利用这些橡皮筋，把它们缠绕在自己制作的巨大橡皮筋球上。
• 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；
• He used gunpowder to seize both on the underdeveloped continents of Asia and africa.
  他依仗着火药的力量在落后的亚、非洲进行掠夺。
• Presently, he cites an example and you seize on it.
  不久他举了一个例子，而你抓住了它。
• You don't seem able to seize on the revolutionary spirit of the masses and lead them on from one struggle to another and to develop the struggle further and further!
  你不能够抓住群众的革命情绪，从一个斗争发展到另一个斗争，不断地把斗争扩大；
• If you think your idea has potential, seize on it immediately.
  如果您认为您的想法有潜力，抓住它立即。
• 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 must seize on these successes and see that they are repeated.
  我们必须紧紧抓住这些成功事例，确保继续获得成功。
• People seize on single studies because we are bad at weighing quantities.
  人们之所以会抓住一项研究不撒手，是因为我们非常不善于权衡数量。