looking

looking 是 look 的现在分词和动名词形式，表示“正在看、寻找”等动作，也常放在形容词后表示“呈现某种外表”；作名词时可指一次观看或一瞥。

💡 记忆钩子

把目光投向某处，就是 looking：目光正在移动时表示“正在看、寻找”，把看到的外表固定下来后，又可表示“看起来像……”；偶尔名词化时，就是一次观看或一瞥。

📝 学习建议

先掌握 looking 作为 look 的现在分词和动名词的用法，再记住它放在形容词后表示外表的常见结构。不要把 looking 单独理解成“外表”，它通常需要和前面的 look 或后面的形容词一起理解。

📖 中文释义

noun

rare 观看；一瞥

📖 名词 looking 指把目光投向某处这一动作，或一次短暂的观看；它仍然保留“看”的核心概念。

💡 常见结构是“a looking at + 对象”或复数 lookings，表示观看行为本身。这个名词用法偏书面或分析性语境，不要在普通对话中用它替代更自然的 look 或 glance。

lookings plural

verb

core look 的现在分词和动名词

📖 looking 是 look 的现在分词和动名词形式，表示目光正在投向某处、正在寻找，或把“看”这一动作当作一件事来谈。

💡 常见结构是“be looking at + 对象”“be looking for + 要找的东西”以及“Looking at + 对象, ...”。不要把 look at 和 look for 混用：前者是把目光投向某物，后者是寻找某物；表示“看见”时通常用 see，而不是 looking。

form-of gerund participle present

She is looking at the map to find the station.

她正在看地图寻找车站。

Looking after a garden takes time.

照料花园需要时间。
common 看起来……的

📖 在复合形容词的末尾，looking 表示“呈现某种外表或给人某种印象”，例如“看起来友好”或“看起来很累”。

💡 常见结构是“形容词或名词 + -looking”，如“friendly-looking”或“stone-looking”，通常放在名词前作定语。它描述的是外表或给人的印象，不等于真正具有该性质；不要把它和谓语结构“look + 形容词”混为一谈。

A friendly-looking woman showed me the way.

一位看起来很友好的女士给我指了路。

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 3 组

the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; ; ;

同义词集: look looking looking at

he went out to have a look

his look was fixed on her eyes

he gave it a good looking at

his camera does his looking for him

上位: perception, sensing 下位: coup d'oeil, glance, glimpse, lookout, observance, observation, outlook, peek, peep, rubber-necking, scrutiny, sight, sightseeing, squint, stare, survey, view, watching

the act of searching visually

同义词集: looking looking for

上位: hunt, hunting, search

appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; ; ; ; ; ;

同义词集: looking sounding

left their clothes dirty looking

a most disagreeable looking character

angry-looking

liquid-looking

severe-looking policemen on noble horses

fine-sounding phrases

taken in by high-sounding talk

近似: superficial

🌳 词源

源自古英语，后来由 look 加现在分词后缀 -ing 构成；名词义也来自同一词源。

From Middle English lokynge, from earlier lokinde, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look + -ing.

🔄 变式

lookings plural

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