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；凝視；注視 I screamed and everyone stared. 我尖叫一聲，衆人都盯着我看。 - stare at somebody/something
I stared blankly at the paper in front of me. 我茫然地看着面前那張紙。 - stare up/down at somebody/something
They stared up at the hole in the ceiling. 他們擡頭盯着天花板上的洞。 He sat staring into space (= looking at nothing). 他坐在那兒凝視着前方。 I was staring into her beautiful blue eyes. 我凝視着她美麗的藍眼睛。 She looked at them with dark staring eyes. 她那雙深色的眼睛專注地看着他們。
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. 我尖叫一聲，衆人都盯着我看。
- gaze (rather formal
) to look steadily at somebody/something for a long time, especially with surprise or love, or because you are thinking: 尤指吃驚、愛戀或深思地凝視、注視、盯着： We all gazed at Marco in amazement. 我們都驚異地注視着馬可。
- peer
to look closely or carefully at something, especially when you cannot see it clearly 尤指看不清楚時仔細看、端詳 - 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. 屋裏的每個人都轉過來盯着她。 For a long moment they just stared at each other. 有很長一段時間他們只是相互盯着對方看。 They were staring intently at a computer screen. 他們目不轉睛地盯着電腦屏幕。 He'd wait there all day, staring out the window. 他會在那裏等一整天，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. 他陰鬱地盯着我，什麽也沒說。 He stared straight ahead and did not move. 他直勾勾地盯着前方，一動不動。 He was still staring at himself in the mirror. 他還在盯着鏡中的自己。 His party was staring into the abyss. 他的政黨正面臨無盡的深淵。 I could see a man staring at me intently. 我能看到有個男人正專注地盯着我看。 I sat staring at the ruins of the building. 我呆呆地坐着，盯着大樓的廢墟。 I stared at him open-mouthed, unable to speak. 我目瞪口呆地盯着他，一句話也說不出來。 I stared in horror at his bloody mouth. 我恐懼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，眼裏滿是痛苦。 She stalked off, leaving them all staring after her. 她昂首闊步地走了，剩下他們目不轉睛地盯着她的背影。 She stared at him stonily as he came in. 他進來時她冷冷地盯了他一眼。 She stared back at him. 她也盯着他作爲回應。 She stared blankly at the brick wall in front of her. 她面無表情地盯着面前的磚牆。 She was just sitting there, staring into space. 她只是坐在那兒，瞪着眼睛發呆。 He sat for hours just staring into space. 他坐了幾個小時，茫然地凝視着前方。 Peter stared in disbelief at the message on the screen. 彼得滿腹疑惑地注視着屏幕上的信息。 The builder stared up at the crack in the ceiling with a thoughtful expression. 建築工人帶着深思的表情盯着天花板上的裂縫。 The passengers stared wide-eyed as the hijacker took out a grenade. 劫機者掏出手榴彈時，乘客們瞪大了眼睛。
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 明擺着；顯而易見 The answer was staring us in the face but we never saw it until it was too late. 答案就在眼前，但我們從未看到，直到爲時已晚。
to be certain to happen 必定發生
be staring something in the face