hunt
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they hunt | |
| he / she / it hunts | |
| past simple hunted | |
| past participle hunted | |
| -ing form hunting |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to go after wild animals in order to catch or kill them for food, sport or to make money 打猎；猎取；猎杀 Lions sometimes hunt alone. 狮子有时单独猎食。 - hunt something
Whales are still being hunted and killed in the Arctic. 北冰洋的鲸类仍然遭到猎杀。 - hunt for something
Cavemen had to hunt for their food. 穴居人不得不寻找食物。 They watched the bald eagles hunting for fish. 他们看着秃鹰捕鱼。 - hunt something for something
The animals are hunted for their fur. 人们为了获取这些动物的毛皮将其猎杀。 Turtles are illegally hunted for their eggs, meat and shells. 海龟因其卵、肉和壳而被非法猎杀。
Extra ExamplesTopics Sports: other sportsb1Porpoises were still being actively hunted in Greenland. 格陵兰岛仍在积极捕杀海豚。 The animals come out at night to hunt for mice and other small animals. 动物们晚上出来捕食老鼠和其他小动物。 The whales were heavily hunted by British commercial whalers. 这些鲸鱼被英国商业捕鲸者大量捕杀。 It is now illegal to hunt otters. 现在猎杀水獭是犯法的。
- [intransitive]
to look for something that is difficult to find 搜寻；搜索 - hunt for something
She is still hunting for a new job. 她还在找新工作。 - + adv./prep.
I've hunted everywhere but I can't find it. 我到处都搜遍了，就是找不到它。 After spending half an hour hunting through the boxes, he had still found nothing. 在箱子里搜寻了半个小时后，他仍然一无所获。
Extra Examplesdesperately hunting for a new job 拼命寻找新工作 I spent an hour hunting for all the documents. 我花了一个小时寻找所有的文件。 She was hunting through her bag for her keys. 她正在翻包找钥匙。
- hunt for something
- [transitive, intransitive]
to look for somebody in order to catch them or harm them 追踪；追捕 - [intransitive, transitive] hunt (something)
(in the UK) to go after and kill foxes as a sport, riding horses and using dogs. Fox hunting with dogs has been illegal in England and Wales since 2005, but people still ride out with dogs following a scent trail, without an actual fox. （英国）猎狐（作为运动，自 2005 年起用狗猎狐是违法的） They hunt when they stay with friends in Ireland. 他们去爱尔兰时会和那儿的朋友去猎狐。
Word OriginOld English huntian, of Germanic origin.