stare
verb [intransitive]Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they stare | |
| he / she / it stares | |
| past simple stared | |
| past participle stared | |
| -ing form staring |
to look at somebody/something for a long time 盯着看；凝视；注视 I screamed and everyone stared. 我尖叫一声，众人都盯着我看。 - stare at somebody/something
I stared blankly at the paper in front of me. 我茫然地看着面前那张纸。 - stare up/down at somebody/something
They stared up at the hole in the ceiling. 他们抬头盯着天花板上的洞。 He sat staring into space (= looking at nothing). 他坐在那儿凝视着前方。 I was staring into her beautiful blue eyes. 我凝视着她美丽的蓝眼睛。 She looked at them with dark staring eyes. 她那双深色的眼睛专注地看着他们。
Synonyms starestare- gaze
- peer
- glare
- stare to look at somebody/something for a long time, especially with surprise or fear, or because you are thinking:
I screamed and everyone stared. 我尖叫一声，众人都盯着我看。
- gaze (rather formal
) to look steadily at somebody/something for a long time, especially with surprise or love, or because you are thinking: 尤指吃惊、爱恋或深思地凝视、注视、盯着： We all gazed at Marco in amazement. 我们都惊异地注视着马可。
- peer
to look closely or carefully at something, especially when you cannot see it clearly 尤指看不清楚时仔细看、端详 - glare to look angrily at somebody/something for a long time:
I looked at her and she glared stonily back. 我看了她一眼，她便冷冷地回瞪我。
- to stare/gaze/peer/glare at somebody/something
- to stare/gaze/peer/glare suspiciously
- to stare/gaze/peer anxiously/intently
- to stare/gaze/glare wildly/fiercely
Extra ExamplesEveryone in the room turned to stare at her. 屋里的每个人都转过来盯着她。 For a long moment they just stared at each other. 有很长一段时间他们只是相互盯着对方看。 They were staring intently at a computer screen. 他们目不转睛地盯着电脑屏幕。 He'd wait there all day, staring out the window. 他会在那里等一整天，盯着窗外。 He just stared at her with disbelief. 他只是怔怔地看着她，不敢相信。 He stared at me bleakly and said nothing. 他阴郁地盯着我，什么也没说。 He stared straight ahead and did not move. 他直勾勾地盯着前方，一动不动。 He was still staring at himself in the mirror. 他还在盯着镜中的自己。 His party was staring into the abyss. 他的政党正面临无尽的深渊。 I could see a man staring at me intently. 我能看到有个男人正专注地盯着我看。 I sat staring at the ruins of the building. 我呆呆地坐着，盯着大楼的废墟。 I stared at him open-mouthed, unable to speak. 我目瞪口呆地盯着他，一句话也说不出来。 I stared in horror at his bloody mouth. 我恐惧地瞪着他血淋淋的嘴巴。 It was too cold to stand and stare. 太冷了，不能傻站着。 She could only stare at him with pain in her eyes. 她只能定定地看着他，眼里满是痛苦。 She stalked off, leaving them all staring after her. 她昂首阔步地走了，剩下他们目不转睛地盯着她的背影。 She stared at him stonily as he came in. 他进来时她冷冷地盯了他一眼。 She stared back at him. 她也盯着他作为回应。 She stared blankly at the brick wall in front of her. 她面无表情地盯着面前的砖墙。 She was just sitting there, staring into space. 她只是坐在那儿，瞪着眼睛发呆。 He sat for hours just staring into space. 他坐了几个小时，茫然地凝视着前方。 Peter stared in disbelief at the message on the screen. 彼得满腹疑惑地注视着屏幕上的信息。 The builder stared up at the crack in the ceiling with a thoughtful expression. 建筑工人带着深思的表情盯着天花板上的裂缝。 The passengers stared wide-eyed as the hijacker took out a grenade. 劫机者掏出手榴弹时，乘客们瞪大了眼睛。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- fixedly
- hard
- intently
- …
- seem to
- continue to
- turn to
- …
- at
- across
- around
- …
- sit staring
- stand staring
- sit and stare
- …
Word OriginOld English starian, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘be rigid’.
Idioms
be staring somebody in the face
used to describe something that you have failed to see, even though it was obvious and should have been easy to see 明摆着；显而易见 The answer was staring us in the face but we never saw it until it was too late. 答案就在眼前，但我们从未看到，直到为时已晚。
to be certain to happen 必定发生
be staring something in the face