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

• 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）。
• 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。
• Market-makers also tend to seize on gaps that open up between the value of an ETF and its underlying index, and eliminate them through arbitrage.
  做市商也常常会抓住etf价值和标的指数之间的差距，并通过套利来填平差距。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• After a troublesome several years concerning these listings, regulators should seize on the most promising model to date for how to move forward.
  多年来中资公司的这种上市麻烦不断，监管者应紧抓住迄今为止最有前途的这种新加坡模式来谋求进步。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。