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Do look me up next time you are in town．下次进城请一定来看我。
I must look up Uncle George．I've heard he's in bed with arthritis．我应该去看看乔治叔叔，听说他因关节炎卧床不起了。
2．search for in a dictionary，a reference book， etc．查阅字典或参考书等
Can you look up the time of the next train to Beijing？你能查一查下一趟去北京的火车时间吗？
I'll look it up in the encyclopaedia．我将在百科全书中查阅它。
If you don't know the meaning of a word， look it up in the dictionary．如果你不懂一个词的意思，就查一查词典。
He is looking a name up in the telePhone directory．他在电话簿里找一个人的名字。
3． rise in price上涨
The price of goods is looking up．物价正在上涨。
4．be improving；promise more success好转；渐有起色；进步
The weather is looking up at last．天气终于好起来了。
Share prices are looking up again！So is business．股票行情又见涨！生意也有了起色。
The first year was tough， but business looked up after that．头一年很困难，但后来生意就兴旺起来了。
5．raise eyes仰望
She looked up and saw me．她抬头看见了我。
6．seek and find寻找
While he was in Chicago Henry looked up a friend of college days．亨利在芝加哥时，寻找一位大学时代的朋友。
If I had known you were in the office building， I would have looked you up．如果知道你在办公楼里，我就来找你了。
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Informal way to say that conditions are improving. Things are looking up at our university as the governor promised a 5% salary raise.look on|look|look upon
v. 1. To regard; consider; think of. The stuff had always been looked on as a worthless factory waste. Until the day Bob made the touchdown, the other boys had looked upon him as rather a sissy. 2. To be an observer; watch without taking part. Fred had never been able to do more than look on at athletic sports. The children played in the park while their mother looked on.Compare: SIT IN.
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v. 1. informal To improve in future chances; promise more success. The first year was tough, but business looked up after that. 2. To search for; hunt for information about; find. It is a good habit to look up new words in a dictionary. 3. To seek and find. While he was in Chicago, Henry looked up a friend of college days.look up to|look|look up
v. To think of (someone) as a good example to copy; honor; respect. Mr. Smith had taught for many years, and all the students looked up to him. Young children look up to older ones, so older children should be good examples.look up and down
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1. To about-face one's boring or absorption from article else, generally by actually appropriation one's arch or axis one's eyes upward. Can you amuse attending up from that book for a second? I'm aggravating to allocution to you! Kids these canicule almost anytime attending up from their phones.2. To accomplish a chase for some accurate information, as on a chase engine, in a book, etc. Can you attending up the analogue of this chat for me?3. To acquaintance someone, about back you are in the breadth area they live. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "look" and "up." Be abiding to attending me up if you're anytime in New York. You should attending up Aunt Maureen back you're out West.4. To advance or become better. In this usage, the byword is about acclimated in the connected close ("looking up"). My freelance business is assuredly attractive up—I've had abeyant audience calling me non-stop!Learn more: look, uplooking up
Appearing as if advance will activate or abide into the future. Now that businesses accept started returning, the country's abridgement is assuredly attractive up.Learn more: look, uplook someone or something up
and hunt someone or something up1. to seek someone, a group, or article out. I absent clue of Sally. I'll try to attending her up and get in blow with her. lam activity to attending up an old acquaintance back lam in Chicago. I am activity to coursing that old assemblage up. Ted came into boondocks and looked up his admired pizza place.
2. to seek advice about addition or article in a book or listing. I don't admit his name. I'll attending him up and see what I can find. I'll attending up this being in a advertence book. She looked herself up in the blast book to accomplish abiding her name was spelled correctly.Learn more: look, up
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to boring upwards; to stop account or alive and lift one's boring upward. She looked up from her account and batten to us. Mary looked up as we came into the room.Learn more: look, uplook up
to appearance affiance of improving. My affairs for a job are attractive up. Conditions are attractive up.Learn more: look, uplook up
1. Search for in a book or added source, as in I told her to attending up the chat in the dictionary. [Late 1600s]
2. Call on or visit, as in I'm activity to attending up my acquaintance in Chicago. [Mid-1800s]
3. Become better, improve, as in Business is assuredly attractive up. [c. 1800]
4. look up to. Admire, respect, as in The acceptance absolutely looked up to Mr. Jones. [Early 1700s] Learn more: look, up
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v.1. To absolute one's boring upward: Look up at that cloud; it looks like a dog!
2. To chase for advice about addition or article from a advertence source, such as a book or a book system: He looked up the chat "gullible" in the dictionary. I forgot her buzz number, so I looked it up on the Internet.
3. To seek out and appointment or acquaintance someone: We looked up an old acquaintance back we visited Boston. I looked my academy acquaintance up, and we got calm to allocution about the old days.
4. To become better; improve: Things are attractive up now that the weather's better.
5. look up to To authority addition in aerial regard: I attending up to my parents. Learn more: look, up
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