hunt for

基本解释

You have to hunt for them.
你不得不去寻找他们。
Have you ever been right in the middle of something –a complicated email, a tricky paragraph of a report, a hunt for some vital figures –only for your concentration to be shattered?
当你正忙于某事——一封不好写的邮件，报告中棘手的那一段，搜寻着某个很重要的人物——这样的时候，要是注意力能不被分散就再好不过了（而事实常与愿违）。
He took all afternoon on each one of them, on account of having to hunt for each letter on the typewriter.
他每写一篇都花上整整一个下午的时间，因为他得在打字机上寻找每一个字母。

Northern Europeans skied to hunt for food, then later to defend their countries.
Then you see way back in human histories figures like this where people had to go hunt for their food, and of course there was danger involved in this.
让我们回到人类演化史上,如这张图所示,人们不得不去狩猎觅食,当然,这是非常危险的
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There is a way Locke argues to create property, not just in the things we gather and hunt, but in the land itself, provided there is enough and as good left for others.
洛克认为有种创造财富的办法，不仅包括我们采集捕猎到的东西，还有土地本身，只要还有足够多足够好的留给别人。
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