hunt

将“hunt”与“hun”结合记忆，想象一只“hun”（野人）在狩猎的场景，形象地联想到猎取动作。这种方法通过形象化的联想来帮助记忆单词的含义。

hunt 打猎，追踪

来自古英语huntian,打猎，猎捕，来自Proto-Germanic*huntona,猎捕，捕获，来自PIE*kend,抓住，抓捕，词源同hint.

hunt

hunt: [OE] Hunt is an ancient word, probably traceable back to an Indo-European *kend-, which also produced Swedish hinna ‘reach’. Its original Old English descendant was hentan ‘seize’, of which huntian (source of modern English hunt) was a derivative. Etymologically, therefore, hunt means ‘try to seize’.
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hunt (v.)

Old English huntian "chase game," related to hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *huntojan (cognates: Gothic hinþan "to seize, capture," Old High German hunda "booty"), from PIE *kend-.

General sense of "search diligently" (for anything) is first recorded c. 1200. Related: Hunted; hunting. Happy hunting-grounds "Native American afterlife paradise" is from "Last of the Mohicans" (1826).

hunt (n.)

early 12c., from hunt (v.). Meaning "body of persons associated for the purpose of hunting with a pack of hounds" is first recorded 1570s.

1. The couple had helped in the hunt for the toddlers.

这对夫妇曾帮着搜寻那些幼童。

2. Parent birds began to hunt for food for their young.

亲鸟开始为幼鸟寻找食物。

3. He set off for a nineteen-day moose hunt in Nova Scotia.

他动身前往新斯科舍参加为时19天的驼鹿捕猎活动。

4. Steve Vickers was yellow-carded for a foul on Hunt.

史蒂夫·维克斯因对亨特犯规被出示黄牌。

5. A leopard hunts alone, and an injured leopard cannot hunt.

豹向来单独猎食，所以如果受伤了就无法捕猎。

【explore, track, hunt, seek】
这组词都有“搜索、寻找”的意思，其区别是：
explore: 一般指对未知事物或新生事物的探索、观察与研究。
track: 侧重按一定线索追查出结果。
hunt: 一般指寻找所需的物件，或对罪犯的搜寻，特指追猎。
seek: 语义庄重，语气强，使用广。多暗示做出很大努力去寻求某人或物。

【pursue, trace, trail, track, hunt, chase, follow】
这组词都有“跟随、追踪”的意思，其区别是：
pursue: 指坚持不懈、毫不动摇地紧跟、追赶某人、某物或某个事业。
trace: 指根据线索或足迹进行跟踪。用于抽象意义时指找到某事物的根源。
trail: 一般指跟踪追击。
track: 指沿着人或动物留下的印迹或行迹追踪。
hunt: 原义为“追猎、猎取”，现用于指追捕或搜寻逃犯等。
chase: 指快速追赶或决心追踪，褒义贬义均可用。
follow: 普遍用词，含义最广，多指跟随起引导作用的人或物，跟随的动机可以是善意的，也可能是恶意的。