explore

vt. 探索；探测；探险

vi. 探索；探测；探险

中文词源

explore 探索

ex-, 向外。-plor, 大叫，哭喊，词源同deplore. 原指猎人在打猎时通过叫声把鸟赶出山林，后词义引申为探索。

explore: explore: [16] Etymologically, to explore is to look for something by shouting. The word comes ultimately from Latin explorare ‘investigate’, which was based on the verb plorare ‘wail, cry out’ (source also of English deplore [16] and implore [16]), and it is thought that the word’s original scenario may have been hunters shouting to flush out (Latin ex- ‘out’) their quarry.
=> deplore, implore
explore (v.): 1580s, "to investigate, examine," a back-formation from exploration, or else from Middle French explorer (16c.), from Latin explorare "investigate, search out, examine, explore," said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "set up a loud cry," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + plorare "to weep, cry." Compare deplore. Second element also is explained as "to make to flow," from pluere "to flow." Meaning "to go to a country or place in quest of discoveries" is first attested 1610s. Related: Explored; exploring.

1. I would creep in and with stealthy footsteps explore the second-floor.: 我会偷偷溜进去，轻手轻脚地查看一下二楼。

2. The two hotel-restaurants are attractive bases from which to explore southeast Tuscany.: 对于去托斯卡纳东南部探险的人们来说，这两家酒店是很有吸引力的驻扎地。

3. I just wanted to explore Paris, read Sartre, listen to Sidney Bechet.: 我就想逛逛巴黎，读读萨特的作品，听听悉尼·贝谢的音乐。

4. Children use fantasy to explore worrying aspects of real life.: 孩子们用幻想来探索实际生活中令人不安的各种事情。