Find

(verb.) perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; 'I found myself in a difficult situation'; 'When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room'.

(verb.) obtain through effort or management; 'She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents'; 'We found the money to send our sons to college'.

(verb.) come upon, as if by accident; meet with; 'We find this idea in Plato'; 'I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here'; 'She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day'.

(verb.) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; 'Did you find your glasses?'; 'I cannot find my gloves!'.

(verb.) succeed in reaching; arrive at; 'The arrow found its mark'.

(verb.) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; 'I feel that he doesn't like me'; 'I find him to be obnoxious'; 'I found the movie rather entertaining'.

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• As a walking companion, Emma had very early foreseen how useful she might find her. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands, said Mrs. March decidedly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Again you find us, Miss Summerson, said he, using our little arts to polish, polish! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It would be difficult to find a human being less likely to arouse affection. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I find from Riderhood and you together, that there are suspicions against both men, and I'm not going to take upon myself to decide betwixt them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I passed to the altered days when I was so blest as to find friends in all around me, and to be beloved. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I will answer for it that we shall find no inconvenience from narrow roads on Wednesday. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Have you found your first day's work harder than you expected? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• On the second day he found his wife and Sir Percival whispering together quite familiar, close under the vestry of the church. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I soon found Briony Lodge. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Is it he who found the body? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It looks as if the old man's spirit had found rest at last; don't it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He had even yielded to her wish for a long engagement, since she had found the one disarming answer to his plea for haste. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes: into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And thus young Lord Greystoke took the first step toward the goal which he had set--the finding of other white men like himself. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• But here there was the difficulty of finding room, so many things having been taken in beforehand. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I glanced at my companion, and finding that he had already risen and was ready to depart, thanked them for what they had told me, and took my leave. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I was not long in finding out that the objections to Smith's promotion were well founded. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I am told many of these persons think about her, sir, I went ongaining courage on finding that I met attention rather than repulse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• From every provident point of view his mother was so undoubtedly right, that he was not without a sickness of heart in finding he could shake her. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Finding him at last beginning to tire, we drew him into the boat, and brought him home dripping wet. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Who was the poet who said that Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The first night that finds a small craft moored near the shore of Shador, I replied. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• She finds compensations, no doubt--I know she borrows money of Gus--but then I'd PAY her to keep him in a good humour, so I can't complain, after all. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• During the last year or two, things have gone against him--secret speculation, I think--and he finds himself in a bad way. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia finds its parallel in the very modest debut of Adams's friend in Boston. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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