特別聲明：該節(jié)目中的迷你對(duì)話選自口語書籍，其余講解部分均為可可原創(chuàng)。

迷你對(duì)話：

A: What are you looking for?

你在找什么呀？

B: I lost one of my contact lenses, and I’m searching high and low for it.

我丟了一只隱形眼鏡，我正到處在找。

A: Where did you lose it? Maybe I can help you to find it.

你掉在哪兒呢？也許我能幫你找到。

B: Thank you very much. I think I lost it near the window.

太謝謝了，就掉在窗邊。

地道表達(dá)：high and low

解詞釋義：high and low字面意思是“上上下下”，引申為“到處”之意。

拓展講解：how and low還有“社會(huì)階層的人”的意思。

支持范例：

Mr. and Mrs. Dahlby searched high and low for their missing boy.

達(dá)爾比夫婦到處尋找他們遺失的孩子。

Bill looked high and low for his lost shoe.

比爾到處找他丟了的那只鞋。

We hunted high and low for the missing watch.

我們到處尋找遺失的手表。

I've searched high and low for my lost pen.

我到處尋找丟失的鋼筆.

詞海拾貝：

1. look for：尋找

Eg. He has come all the way from Leeds to look for a job.

他從利茲遠(yuǎn)道而來尋找工作。

Eg. I' m turning out the cupboard to look for a lost key.

我翻騰衣柜找丟失的鑰匙。

Eg. It's my father who came here to look for me this morning.

上午來找我的是我父親。

Eg. He dived into the water to look for the dead body.

他潛入水底找尋尸首。

2. search for：尋找

Eg. So far the search for the missing boy is fruitless.

對(duì)失蹤男孩的搜尋至今仍無結(jié)果。

Eg. They made a thorough search for the lost ring, but didn' t find it.

他們仔細(xì)地尋找過那枚丟失的戒指，可是沒有找到。

Eg. Two men volunteered to search for the missing climber.

兩個(gè)人自告奮勇去尋找那位失蹤的登山運(yùn)動(dòng)員。

Eg. The company is casting its net wide in its search for a new sales director.

公司撒開大網(wǎng)到處物色新的銷售主任。