hunt for

基本解釋

You have to hunt for them.
你不得不去尋找他們。
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?
當你正忙于某事——一封不好寫的郵件，報告中棘手的那一段，搜尋著某個很重要的人物——這樣的時候，要是注意力能不被分散就再好不過了（而事實常與愿違）。
He took all afternoon on each one of them, on account of having to hunt for each letter on the typewriter.
他每寫一篇都花上整整一個下午的時間，因為他得在打字機上尋找每一個字母。

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.
讓我們回到人類演化史上,如這張圖所示,人們不得不去狩獵覓食,當然,這是非常危險的
耶魯公開課 - 關(guān)于食物的心理學、生物學和政治學課程節(jié)選
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.
洛克認為有種創(chuàng)造財富的辦法，不僅包括我們采集捕獵到的東西，還有土地本身，只要還有足夠多足夠好的留給別人。
耶魯公開課 - 公正課程節(jié)選

Economists, typically baffled by selflessness, have tended to hunt for hidden self-interest in apparent altruism.
ECONOMIST: Why a new golden age of philanthropy may be dawning