| Look | |||
| Czasownik frazowy | Definicja | Przykład | Tłumaczenie |
| look after |
= (tr) take care of |
It’s hard work looking after three children all day. | opiekować się, zajmować się (kimś, czymś) |
| look back (on) |
= (tr) consider the past |
People often look back and reflect on happy childhood memories./Most people look back on their school days with fondness. | patrzeć wstecz, spoglądać wstecz |
| look down on |
= (tr) despite (≠ look up to) |
She looks down on anyone who hasn’t had a university education. | gardzić |
| look for |
= (tr) search, try to find |
Police were looking for clues as to the woman’s identity. | zachorować (na), zapaść (na chorobę) |
| look forward to |
= (tr) anticipate with pleasure |
He had worked hard and was looking forward to his retirement. | z niecierpliwością czekać (na coś), oczekiwać (czegoś) |
| look in on sb |
= (tr) pay a short visit to |
I'm going to look in on grannie on the way home tonight as she's been a bit unwell recently. | złożyć komuś krótką wizytę |
| look into |
= (tr) investigate |
I wrote a letter of complaint, and the airline have promised to look into the matter. | badać, prowadzić śledztwo |
| look on |
= (int) observe | Phil looked on in disbelief as Maggie got up on the table and started to dance. | przyglądać się (czemuś) |
| look out |
= (int) be careful |
Look out! There’s a car coming. | uważać, być ostrożnym |
| look out for |
= (tr) be alert in order to see/find sb/sth |
We were told to look out for a blue van. | wypatrywać, poszukiwać, szukać |
| look over |
= (tr) examine carefully; go through | He’d been looking over the leaflets he’d picked up earlier. | przejrzeć dokładnie |
| look round |
= (tr) inspect a place |
Do you want to look around the school? |
rozejrzeć się (po czymś), obejrzeć (dom, mieszkanie) |
| look through |
= (tr) look at quickly |
I’ve just been looking through your cookery books for inspiration. | przeglądać, kartkować, wertować |
| look up |
= (tr) look for sth in an appropriate book/list |
I didn’t know what ‘loquacious’ meant and had to look it up in a dictionary. |
wyszukać (coś) w (książce/słowniku) |