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

• 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。
• The second difficulty is that many people have neither the time nor the inclination to filter out good or bad information they tend to seize on the scraps that suit them to bolster whatever their view is of the world.
  第二个难题是，很多人既没有时间也没有意向来甄别信息的好坏，他们倾向于抓住那些有助于支撑自己的世界观的信息碎片。
• 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
• 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。
• The key to guaranteeing the teaching quality is to seize on the links in testing.
  抓住考试环节，把好教学质量关是关键。
• If you think your idea has potential, seize on it immediately.
  如果您认为您的想法有潜力，抓住它立即。
• In conditions of ignorance, people seize on any information available, even if their reason should tell them that it is irrelevant.
  在一无所知的情况下，人们会抓住一切可以获得的信息，即便理智告诉他们这些信息是不相关的。
• We must seize on these successes and see that they are repeated.
  我们必须紧紧抓住这些成功事例，确保继续获得成功。
• 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。
• Mr Abe, who made his name by being tough on Pyongyang, was quick to seize on October's nuclear test as a way of rallying international support for sanctions.
  以对朝立场强硬闻名的安倍，迅速抓住朝鲜10月份核试，凝聚国际力量，支持对朝鲜进行制裁。