sight

1. N-UNCOUNT Someone's sight is their ability to see. 視力

My sight is failing, and I can't see to read any more. 我的視力正在下降，不能再看書了。

2. N-SING The sight of something is the act of seeing it or an occasion on which you see it. 看見

I faint at the sight of blood. 我一看見血就暈。

3. N-COUNT A sight is something that you see. 景象

The practice of hanging clothes across the street is a common sight in many parts of the city. 在大街上晾曬衣服在該市的許多地區(qū)是很常見的景象。

4. V-T If you sight someone or something, you suddenly see them, often briefly. (在一瞬間) 突然看見

The security forces sighted a group of young men that had crossed the border. 安全部隊在一瞬間突然看見了一群越過了邊境的年輕人。

5. N-PLURAL Thesights are the places that are interesting to see and that are often visited by tourists. 名勝; 風景

We'd toured the sights of Paris. 我們已游覽了巴黎的名勝。

6. →see also sighting

7. PHRASE If you catch sight of someone, you suddenly see them, often briefly. 瞬間內突然看見某人

Then he caught sight of her small black velvet hat in the crowd. 隨后他突然看見她的黑色絲絨小帽在人群中閃過。

8. PHRASE If you say that something seems to have certain characteristics at first sight, you mean that it appears to have the features you describe when you first see it but later it is found to be different. 乍一看

The theory is not as simple as you might think at first sight. 這個理論并不像你乍看時想到的那么簡單。

9. PHRASE If something is in sight or within sight, you can see it. If it is out of sight, you cannot see it. 看得見/看不見

The sandy beach was in sight. 那片沙灘映入眼簾。

The Atlantic coast is within sight of the hotel. 從那個酒店可以看見大西洋的海岸線。

10. PHRASE If a result or a decision is in sight or within sight, it is likely to happen within a short time. 即將發(fā)生

An agreement on many aspects of trade policy was in sight. 有關貿易政策諸多方面的一項協(xié)議即將簽訂了。

11. PHRASE If you lose sight of an important aspect of something, you no longer pay attention to it because you are worrying about less important things. 忽略

In some cases, U.S. industry has lost sight of customer needs in designing products. 在一些情況下，美國工業(yè)在設計產品時忽略了顧客的需求。

12. PHRASE If someone is ordered to do something on sight, they have to do it without delay, as soon as a person or thing is seen. 一看見…就

Troops shot anyone suspicious on sight. 軍隊一見可疑的人就開槍。

13. PHRASE If you set your sights on something, you decide that you want it and try hard to get it. 以某事為奮斗目標

They have set their sights on the world record. 他們把目標瞄向了世界紀錄。

14. PHRASE If you have something in your sights, you are trying hard to achieve it, and you have a good chance of success. If you have someone in your sights, you are determined to catch, defeat, or overcome them. 志在取得某事; 決意抓獲、打敗或征服某人

The Giants' slugger also has fourth place in his sights, needing 13 homers to move past Frank Robinson's 586. 巨人隊的強擊手也對第4名志在必得，需要擊出13個本壘打才能超過弗蘭克·羅賓遜的586分。

Is this knowledge of yours the reason the murderer now has you in his sights?

就是因為你知道的這些事兇犯才在追殺你嗎？