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

• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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）。
• So in order to understand the question of the motive forces of social development, we must seize on the main contradiction, or find out the main motive force of social development.
  因此，要理解社会发展的动力问题，必须抓住主要矛盾，找出社会发展的主要动力。
• It operates dozens of funds targeted at individual geographic regions and sectors, which has enabled it to seize on local market windows when they appear.
  它管理着以不同地区及行业为投资目标的数十只基金，这使它能够在当地的市场窗口出现时，及时抓住机会退出。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• All organic beings are striving to seize on each place in the economy of nature.
  一切生物都争取自然机体中的地位。