search
单词辨析：
语义庄重，语气较强，使用广泛，指尽很大努力去寻找合适的人或某种东西，此类东西多为抽象事物。
Candidates are urgently sought for the post of trade union chairman.
工会主席的职位急寻候选人。
Many country girls drifted into cities to seek work.
许多农村姑娘流入城市找工作。
表示对某处像梳头一般进行彻底搜寻。
The police combed the whole town in their efforts to find the murderer.
警方搜遍全镇，力图找到凶手。
The old house was combed very carefully.
这所老房子被彻底搜查过了。
指非常仔细地寻找某人或某物，侧重于找的过程，通常后接介词 for。
Many kids were hunting for shells on the beach.
很多孩子在海滩上寻找贝壳。
The police are busy hunting for clues.
警方忙着寻找线索。
指搜查某一具体的人、地方、事物以找到某物或某人，含非常仔细之意。
Two soldiers with rifles searched him from head to foot.
两个拿枪的士兵把他从头到脚搜了个遍。
The policemen searched the house and found nothing.
警察搜查了房子，什么也没有找到。
She bent to search through a heap of letters.
她弯腰在一大堆信件中翻找。
相关例句：
Armed troops searched the hospital yesterday
武装部队昨天搜查了该医院。
You can search me if you think you're man enough.
有胆的话，你可以搜我的身。
The man took her suitcase from her and then searched her
那名男子拿过她手中的提箱，然后对她搜身。
It was a place to which genteel families came in search of health and quiet.
这是上流社会家庭寻求健康和静谧的场所。
The Turkish security forces have started searching for the missing men
土耳其安全部队已经开始搜寻失踪人员。
There was no chance of him being found alive and the search was abandoned
他没有生还的可能，因此人们放弃了搜寻。