quest
quest 英 [kwest] 美 [kwɛst]
n. 追求；寻找 v. 探索，寻求
进行时:questing 过去式:quested 过去分词:quested 第三人称单数:quests 名词复数:quests
- A quest is all about seeking something important, and it often involves a journey. You would travel the world in a quest for gold. You would not travel to the front of the lunchroom in a quest for tater tots.
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- n. 追求；寻找
- v. 探索，寻求
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1. the quest for happiness
对幸福的追求
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2. He set off in quest of adventure.
他出行探险去了。
- quest (n.) c. 1300, "an inquest;" early 14c., "a search for something" (especially of judicial inquiries or hounds seeking game), from Old French queste "search, quest, chase, hunt, pursuit; inquest, inquiry" (12c., Modern French quête), properly "the act of seeking," and directly from Medieval Latin questa "search, inquiry," alteration of Latin quaesitus (fem. quaesita) "sought-out, select," past participle of quaerere "seek, gain, ask" (see query (n.)). Romance sense of "adventure undertaken by a knight" (especially the search for the Grail) is attested from late 14c. Johnson's dictionary has questmonger "Starter of lawsuits or prosecutions."
- quest (v.) mid-14c., "to seek game, hunt," from quest (n.) and from Old French quester "to search, hunt," from queste (n.). Related: Quested; questing.
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