Seek

(noun.) the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk.

(verb.) inquire for; 'seek directions from a local'.

(verb.) go to or towards; 'a liquid seeks its own level'.

(verb.) try to get or reach; 'seek a position'; 'seek an education'; 'seek happiness'.

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• And he had not the power, or the will, to seek it out and to know it. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Is it my life they seek, to atone for my religion? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The performance over, Selden's first impulse was to seek Miss Bart. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She determined to call upon them and seek safety in numbers. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Adrian met them half way; they halted: What, he said, do you seek? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• My guardian did not seek to dissuade me, and I went. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He sought her presence more and more, and at last with a frequency that attested it had become to him an indispensable stimulus. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And the twilight, as she now sought to pierce it, was gradually lighted by a faint spark of reassurance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• When he did return, he sought out the child and took notice of her. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• To earn his bread he sought and found employment on a railway locomotive. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• She ever shunned high-roads, and sought byways and lonely lanes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Pasteur took up the study of anthrax in 1877, verified previous discoveries, and, as we shall see, sought means for the prevention of this pest. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Her theme was their wants, which she sought to supply; their sufferings, which she longed to alleviate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Its great interest for the history of thought lies in the fact that it is the result of seeking the constant in the variable, the unitary principle in the multiple phenomena of nature. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The doctor-seeking messenger meets the doctor halfway, coming under convoy of police. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• All the unowned dogs who stray into the Inns of Court and pant about staircases and other dry places seeking water give short howls of aggravation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• These ascetics were all supposed to be seeking some deeper reality in life, and a passionate desire to do likewise took possession of Gautama. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But in music there was nothing which tended to that good which you are now seeking. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It is seeking, a quest, for something that is not at hand. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They even have in it a grotto wherein twenty thousand children were slaughtered by Herod when he was seeking the life of the infant Saviour. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It was the unhappiness of a fine brain that seeks employment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• With Plato the investigation of nature is another department of knowledge, and in this he seeks to attain only probable conclusions (Timaeus). 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Seeks earnestly to know whether Podsnap 'will rally round him? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I know too well, as his grave figure passes onward, what he seeks, and what he dreads. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It is largely due to the Patent Law, which justly regards the inventor as a public benefactor, and seeks to make for him some protection in the enjoyment of his rights. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Heloise and I, under pretext of study, gave ourselves up wholly to love, and the solitude that love seeks our studies procured for us. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The one seeks violent conquests, the other the relief of humanity. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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