1. quest
They explored the desert in quest of buried treasure.
Four heroes set out on a quest to find a lost ring.
the quest for happiness/knowledge/truth
the quest for a reliable vaccine
Nothing will stop them in their quest for truth.
in my quest to becoming a millionaire
The quest of the truth, quest for power
You'll never give up the quest for the truth, will you?
A long and difficult search for something: A quest for the meaning of life. She went to India on a spiritual quest.
The game is made up of lots of different quests.
We’ll continue our quest in space.
Gulliver traveled in quest of adventure.
Those books which have made a lasting contribution to man's quest for truth, we call great books.
Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Rawandi, already in the ninth century, held that reason is man's exclusive guide to truth, a quest in which revelation is of no help.
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Advanced 1 (Scaling the Heights)2. look for
I look for the new book.
Can you help me look for my key? I've lost it!
Jane went shopping to look for a pair of shoes
I'd better look for a job before my wife decides to divorce me
I’ll help you look for your keys.
I look for the facts on the internet.
I look form my glasses.
I look for a new car but I don't want an expensive car.
These directions say to look for the old town hall and that the bus stop we need is over the road from there.
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phras verbs dopasowania3. for
Is this for me?
This book is for students whose native language is not Japanese.
The bricklayer calculated that he would need 500 bricks for the wall.
The people next door were annoyed with us for making so much noise last night.
Why do you insist on paying for your school expenses yourself, when your parents are willing to give you financial support?
He attended the high school for three years without missing a single day or being late.
Even though I have studied English at school for the past six years, I'm still not good at speaking it.
The market for luxury goods is growing fast.
For all his wealth, he was still unhappy.
I will do that work on condition that I get paid for it.
Almost everyone in the class voted in favor of having a thank-you party for the teachers.
How about going for a drive to Lake Yamanaka with us tomorrow?
The two men understood one another perfectly, and had a mutual respect for each other's strong qualities.
After spending three weeks looking for a job, he found a well-paid one.
Your boyfriend got tired of waiting for you and left just now.
4. of
Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
How nice of you!
Of course.
It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.
A box of chocolates
We were sitting peacefully at dinner, when all of a sudden the lights went out.
To the best of my knowledge, this chemical will prevent germs from breeding.
Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Genes consist of a specific sequence of DNA.
Carpentry and bricklaying are examples of manual labor.
By the age of seven, he had already made his own bow and arrows.
When we started out in 2009, I was convinced that our store would become one of the best in the city.
I'm very particular about what kind of people I invite into my house.
If a man wants to learn to sound like a native speaker of Japanese, he shouldn't only learn Japanese from women. The reverse is true for a woman.
Something you should know about me is that I half of what I say is meaningless.
5. frisk
The bouncers frisk you before you can enter the concert.
I don't like frisk searches.
6. seek
seek opportunities
There are those, who, in distress, seek the help of other people's prayers, but have no mind to pray for themselves.
Make no mistake: we do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We seek no military bases there.
There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Risk money refers to funds placed in investments that seek high-return, although high-risk, investments.
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
Seek, and you will find.
They vote in secret, may seek public office, and may demand the removal of public officials who behave improperly.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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sgh 2 semestr7. source
A good newspaper reporter takes advantage of what he learns from any source, even the "little bird told him so" type of source.
It's very unlikely that a serious art collector would ever buy anything from that source.
safe source nearby
The traditional way of learning a language may satisfy at most one's sense of duty, but it can hardly serve as a source of joy. Nor will it likely be successful.
Television could be an important source of culture, and its educational broadcasts are valued in many schools.
Solar energy seems to offer more hope than any other source of energy, particularly because those areas most in need of water lie rather close to the equator and have a relatively clear atmosphere.
This source is dependable and predictable, but more research is still needed in this area.
But you know, it would be sad to collect all these sentences, and keep them for ourselves. Because there's so much you can do with them. Which is why Tatoeba is open. Our source code is open. Our data is open.
Is the source of the erectile dysfunction of my husband the fact that he started drinking?
Open source is the engine that drives technological innovation.
Light source, that is what direction the light is facing, also take care with shadowing. Just copy down into the sketch book you have at hand as accurately as possible.
A polite way to reveal knowledge of a fact without telling the source of the information is to say, "a little bird told me".
More and more people are doing shopping on-line, Wikipedia is replacing the traditional sources of knowledge, computer skills are becoming necessary in almost every job.
Official definition of an information source: Book, document, database, person that provides information
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3.2 Logistics8. researchers
Some forensics researchers study the rate of insect colonization of carcasses.
Keeping your heart fit and strong can slow down the ageing of your brain, say researchers.
Although many European researchers have studied ancient Persian literature in the nineteenth century, the new world is not paying attention to our contemporary literature.
A body of researchers funded by Frito-Lay are attempting to compile a list of bite-size snack foods through which the body and blood of Christ can transubstantiate.
Researchers at the Gorilla Foundation have to spell out words like "c-a-n-d-y" and "g-u-m" when Koko is nearby.
The treatment's acceptability plummeted by nearly 96% that year after researchers discovered disfiguring side effects.
Octal paid a large grant for the researchers to carry out some market research.
U.S. researchers assembled carbon nanotubes to create the world's blackest substance, able to absorb over 99 percent of light that hits it.
Researchers found that subjects could collect double the amount of money for charity when they were wearing clothes with designer logos.
Researchers Identify New Receptor Complex in Brain
Researchers are still a long way off from understanding the mechanism involved in Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers announce method of circumventing Windows Vista security features.
9. look up
Could someone look up this word in a dictionary?
I look up all new words using my online dictionary.
You should look up words you don't know in the dictionary.
I need to look up her number.
look up
look up a dictionary
Students should have a dictionary to look up the unknown words.
Don't look up if you don't have your sunglasses on.
If you don't know this word, just look it up in a dictionary. I'll look up his number in the phone book. I don't know the address of the hospital - can you look it up on the Internet?
Finally things are starting to look up - I've been offered a job and I'm going on my first date in years!
I will have to look up the new words.
look for an address, name, word, etc. in a book, list, etc./I takes time to look up new vocabulary words.
look up a phone number, word
You should look up words I borrowed from you?
when you click a link, your browser has to first look up the link's host in order to load the subsequent page
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phrasal verbs10. search for
I often search for original clothes at Allegroo.
The police train dogs to search for explosives.
11. search of