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chase /tʃeɪs/► SEE ALLchase your (own) tailcut to the chasegive chasea wild goose chase
●chase your (own) ˈtailbe very busy but in fact achieve very little 无事忙；无谓瞎忙◆In my first month at college I was continually chasing my own tail and being late for everything.
上大学的第一个月我总是手忙脚乱，什么事情都迟到。▸ ˈtail-chasing noun NOTE If a dog or cat chases its tail, it runs round in circles trying to bite its own tail. * chase its tail 指狗或猫绕圈跑，试图去咬自己的尾巴。 ●cut to the ˈchase (informal, especially NAmE) stop wasting time and do or say the important things that need to be done or said 不再浪费时间；着手做正事；废话少说◆Let’s cut to the chase. How much is it going to cost me?
咱们说正事吧，这要花我多少钱？ NOTE A film/movie often cuts (= changes) from a slow scene to a more exciting one, such as a car chase, to keep the audience interested. 电影经常从缓慢的场景切换到刺激的场景，例如汽车追逐的场面，以吸引住观众。 ●give ˈchasebegin to run after sb/sth in order to catch them （开始）追赶，追捕，追◆We gave chase along the footpath.
我们开始沿小路追赶。●a ˌwild ˈgoose chasea (long) search for sth that you cannot find because you have been given the wrong information （因信息错误而长途／长时）徒劳追寻；白费力气的追逐；徒劳之举◆He gave us the wrong directions to the station and that led us off on a wild goose chase.他给我们指错了方向，我们白费力气，根本找不到火车站。◆Peter’s story sent the police on a wild goose chase. They soon realized he’d been lying.彼得的鬼话误导了警方的侦查工作。他们很快意识到他在撒谎。 ORIGIN In the past, this was a sport in which horse riders had to follow the exact course taken by the first rider, like the way that geese fly by following a leader. Later it referred to any unplanned or irregular course taken by one person and followed by another, and then came to mean something that was like trying to find a wild goose: that is, a difficult or hopeless task. 这是旧时的一项运动，骑手们必须严格按照第一个骑手的路线走，就像天鹅群跟随领飞的天鹅一样。后来这用来表示众人跟随某人毫无规划、杂乱无章的行动方针；之后又指试图寻找野天鹅之类的事，由此产生出“艰难而毫无希望的任务”之意。 |