喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈsiːkər/ · /ˈsiːkə/尋求者

    Someone who is looking for a particular thing they want or need.

    示範例句 · Example

    Many job seekers checked the school notice board for part-time work.

    逐字許多求職者檢查學校布告欄找兼職工作。

    「seeker」是「正在找、正在要某個東西的人」，中文常說尋求者。核心畫面可以想成：seek＝找／尋求，加上 -er 就變成「做這件事的人」。英文很少單獨說 a seeker，更常在前面貼上要找的東西，例如 job seeker（求職者）、attention-seeker（想引起注意的人）、a seeker after knowledge（求知的人）。跟 searcher 分開記：searcher 多半是仔細找遺失物；seeker 更常講「努力想得到某個目標」。

    常見搭配

    • job seeker / job-seeker

      求職者

      someone who is looking for a job

      The website helps job seekers write a clear resume.

    • attention-seeker / attention seeker

      想引起注意的人

      someone who tries to make other people notice them

      Hana is playful, but she is not an attention-seeker in class.

    • publicity-seeker

      想博取曝光的人

      someone who tries to get public attention or media notice

      The mayor said he was a hard worker, not a publicity-seeker.

    • power-seeker

      追求權力的人

      someone who tries hard to get power or control

      The story describes a clever but ruthless power-seeker.

    • a seeker after knowledge

      求知的人；知識的尋求者

      someone who really wants to learn and understand more

      Grandpa was a genuine seeker after knowledge all his life.

    • asylum seeker

      尋求庇護者

      someone who asks another country for safety and protection

      The charity gives warm clothes and food to asylum seekers.

    意思相近

    searcherhunterapplicantpursuer

    用法接近

    explorercandidatefinderquester

core核心畫面

Someone already out looking — the thing they want is not in their hands yet, and they are moving toward it. The word almost never stands alone; it hangs onto whatever is being looked for: a job seeker, an asylum seeker, a thrill seeker.

可以想成：一個已經在找的人——想要的東西還沒到手，人正朝著它移動。這個字很少單獨出現，通常前面掛著「在找什麼」：job seeker（求職者）、asylum seeker（尋求庇護者）、thrill seeker（追求刺激的人）。看到 -seeker 結尾，就先去找前面那個名詞。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

複數 seekers

意思相近

searcherhunterapplicantpursuer

用法接近

explorercandidatefinderquester

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Seekernoun

  • 1

    historicalChristianityA member of an English Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s; they considered organised churches to be corrupt and preferred to wait for God's revelation.

seekernoun/ˈsiːkə/

  • 1

    One who seeks.

  • 2

    Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.

    • But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
  • 3

    In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.

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