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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Market-makers also tend to seize on gaps that open up between the value of an ETF and its underlying index, and eliminate them through arbitrage.
  做市商也常常会抓住etf价值和标的指数之间的差距，并通过套利来填平差距。
• 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）。
• It operates dozens of funds targeted at individual geographic regions and sectors, which has enabled it to seize on local market windows when they appear.
  它管理着以不同地区及行业为投资目标的数十只基金，这使它能够在当地的市场窗口出现时，及时抓住机会退出。
• 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。
• He must seize on a solution, however risky.
  他总得采取一个解决办法，不管这个办法如何危险。