Chase

(noun.) a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time.

(noun.) United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873).

(verb.) cut a groove into; 'chase silver'.

(verb.) go after with the intent to catch; 'The policeman chased the mugger down the alley'; 'the dog chased the rabbit'.

(verb.) pursue someone sexually or romantically.

乔茜录入

• The man was beset by friends who told him he was mad to continue the chase, and that his undoubted talents in other lines were being wasted. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They gave chase. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The active life to which he had been born and bred had given him something else to do than to join the futile chase of the pleasure-hunter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Yet in North America there are woodpeckers which feed largely on fruit, and others with elongated wings which chase insects on the wing. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It is like 'Chevy Chase,' said Maurice quickly, and stirs the heart like the sound of a trumpet. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Don't you know that they must have their chase after us, at any rate? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Our friend here is a wonderful man for starting a chase. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• In my haste I thrust the key into my pocket, and dropped my stick while I was chasing Teddy, who had run up the curtain. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• It's been chasing me all my life, but it shall never take me nor mine alive! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Did you see what they were chasing him with? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In later years the rolling of screws, instead of cutting the threads by a chasing tool, has attained considerable importance, and provides a simpler and cheaper method of manufacture. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Then with a grand effort she rallied from the shock, and a supreme astonishment and indignation chased every other expression from her features. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Then he lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• How did you want him to have dignity when he was being chased by the mob? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• His vessel was chased for days by three of the Zodangan war ships but finally escaped during the darkness of a moonless night. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The civil wars of Flanders, and the Spanish government which succeeded them, chased away the great commerce of Antwerp, Ghent, and Bruges. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She chased Jessie and Rose from the upper realm of the house; she forbade the housemaids to set their foot in it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They persist in not being frightened by the gold and silver camels, and they are banded together to defy the elaborately chased ice-pails. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It glides over the park after the moving shadows of the clouds, and chases them, and never catches them, all day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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