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N-UNCOUNT
視力;視覺
Someone's sight is their ability to see.
例句
My sight is failing, and I can't see to read any more...
我的視力在下降，看不了書了。
I use the sense of sound much more than the sense of sight.
我用聽覺比視覺要多得多。
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N-SING
看見;目睹
The sight of something is the act of seeing it or an occasion on which you see it.
例句
I faint at the sight of blood...
我一見到血就暈。
The sight of him entering a room could flood her with desire.
見到他進入房間會讓她心中欲望澎湃。
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N-COUNT
看見的事物;景象;情景
A sight is something that you see.
例句
The practice of hanging clothes across the street is a common sight in many parts of the city...
街邊晾曬衣服在這座城市的許多地區隨處可見。
We encountered the pathetic sight of a family packing up its home...
我們目睹了一家人正在收拾家當準備離開的凄慘景象。
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VERB
(突然或剎那間)看見，發現
If you sight someone or something, you suddenly see them, often briefly.
例句
The security forces sighted a group of young men that had crossed the border...
安全部隊突然看見一群越過邊境的年輕人。
A fleet of French ships was sighted in the North Sea.
在北海突然發現了一支法國船隊。
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N-COUNT
(武器等的)準星，瞄準器
The sights of a weapon such as a rifle are the part which helps you aim it more accurately.
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N-PLURAL
風景;名勝
The sights are the places that are interesting to see and that are often visited by tourists.
例句
We'd toured the sights of Paris...
我們游覽了巴黎的風景名勝。
I am going to show you the sights of our wonderful city...
我會帶你瀏覽我們這座美麗城市的風景名勝。
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ADV
很;非常
You can use a sight to mean a lot. For example, if you say that something is a sight worse than it was before, you are emphasizing that it is much worse than it was.
例句
She's been no more difficult than most daughters and a sight better than some I could mention...
與大多數女兒相比，她并不算太難管，而且比我知道的一些要乖巧得多。
We weren't doing anything different to what we've always done. We're just doing it a damn sight quicker.
我們正在做的事和我們一直在做的別無二致，只不過我們現在動作要快得多。
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PHRASE
(突然或剎那間)看見，發現
If you catch sight of someone, you suddenly see them, often briefly.
例句
Then he caught sight of her small black velvet hat in the crowd...
然后他突然在人群中看見了她那頂小巧的黑色天鵝絨帽子。
Every time I catch sight of myself in the mirror, I feel so disappointed.
每次我瞥見鏡子里的自己就覺得沮喪。
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PHRASE
乍一看;一見之下;初看時
If you say that something seems to have certain characteristics at first sight, you mean that it appears to have the features you describe when you first see it but later it is found to be different.
例句
It promised to be a more difficult undertaking than might appear at first sight...
那項任務可能比乍看之下還要困難。
At first sight it resembles a traditional village of two-storeyed, balconied houses, set among well-tended gardens.
乍一看，它就像個傳統的村莊：帶陽臺的兩層樓房坐落于精心照料的花園中。
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PHRASE
看得見/看不見
If something is in sight or within sight, you can see it. If it is out of sight, you cannot see it.
例句
The sandy beach was in sight...
沙灘映入眼簾。
The Atlantic coast is within sight of the hotel...
從賓館可以看見大西洋海岸。
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PHRASE
在望;在即;臨近;即將產生
If a result or a decision is in sight or within sight, it is likely to happen within a short time.
例句
An agreement on many aspects of trade policy was in sight...
一項涉及到貿易政策諸多方面的協議即將達成。
There is no end in sight to the struggle for power...
權力的爭斗近期不會終止。
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PHRASE
忽略;忽視;遺忘
If you lose sight of an important aspect of something, you no longer pay attention to it because you are worrying about less important things.
例句
In some cases, US industry has lost sight of customer needs in designing products...
某些情況下，美國工業在產品設計上忽略了客戶的需求。
We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that education is important for its own sake.
教育本身就很重要，我們不應忽視這一事實。
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PHRASE
與…只是面熟(并不熟識)
If you know someone by sight, you can recognize them when you see them, although you have never met them and talked to them.
例句
I knew him by sight but had never spoken with him.
我和他有過幾面之緣，但從未說過話。
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PHRASE
眼不見，心不煩
If you say 'out of sight, out of mind', you mean that people quickly forget someone if he or she goes away.
例句
The problems of the poor are largely invisible—out of sight, out of mind.
窮人的問題人們大多看不見——正所謂“眼不見，心不煩”。
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PHRASE
一見…馬上就
If someone is ordered to do something on sight, they have to do it without delay, as soon as a person or thing is seen.
例句
Troops shot anyone suspicious on sight...
部隊士兵一見到任何可疑的人馬上就開槍。
Magee was set free but British authorities were asked to arrest him on sight.
馬吉被釋放了，但是英國當局卻被要求一見到他就立即逮捕。
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PHRASE
不好看;不雅觀;有礙觀瞻
If you say that someone or something is not a pretty sight, you mean that it is not pleasant to look at.
例句
The bathroom is not a pretty sight. The wallpaper's peeling, the tiles are crumbling.
浴室破舊不堪。墻紙剝落了，瓷磚也裂了。
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PHRASE
以…為奮斗目標;志在必得;決心做到
If you set your sights on something, you decide that you want it and try hard to get it.
例句
They have set their sights on the world record...
他們的目標是沖擊世界紀錄。
Although she came from a family of bankers, Franklin set her sights on a career in scientific research.
盡管出身于銀行家家庭，富蘭克林還是決心從事科研事業。
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PHRASE
在未見實物的情況下;事先未經檢查
If you agree to buy something sight unseen, you agree to buy it, even though you have not seen it and do not know what condition it is in.
例句
Although people sometimes buy property sight unseen, it's a remarkably bad idea.
盡管人們有時沒看房就買了房，但這真是一個很糟糕的主意。