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

• 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。
• But currency investors, many of them out of pocket after the recent twists and turns in US monetary policy, are ready to seize on dollar weakness.
  但外汇市场投资者已经做好了利用美元疲软走势的准备，他们中的很多人因近期美国货币政策曲折反复而蒙受了损失。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• You don't seem able to seize on the revolutionary spirit of the masses and lead them on from one struggle to another and to develop the struggle further and further!
  你不能够抓住群众的革命情绪，从一个斗争发展到另一个斗争，不断地把斗争扩大；
• When my elder son was little he would seize on these bands and add them to the giant rubber band ball he was making.
  在我的大儿子小的时候，他会利用这些橡皮筋，把它们缠绕在自己制作的巨大橡皮筋球上。
• We seize on his remark and regard it as a promise.
  我们抓住他的话把它当作是一种承诺。
• All organic beings are striving to seize on each place in the economy of nature.
  一切生物都争取自然机体中的地位。
• 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。