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）。
• Presently, he cites an example and you seize on it.
  不久他举了一个例子，而你抓住了它。
• 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；
• It is not well placed to seize on a recovery in commodities.
  这使得该公司无法充分受益于大宗商品的复苏。
• 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。
• Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, is planning to seize on the writers 'strike to eliminate what he sees as extravagances in the way Hollywood makes and promotes television.
  NBC环球（NBCUniversal）首席执行官杰夫•朱克（JeffZucker）计划利用编剧罢工的机会，根除他眼中好莱坞电视制作与宣传的铺张方式。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In sum, he has to be very proactive and seize on any available opportunity to win. play one's best/ trump cards
  总之，统帅的一切行动必须很有预见性，任何胜出机会他都必须把握。打出王牌，使出最有取胜把握的办法