make an offer of marriage，make a proposal [marriage]，propose，courtship，lovemaking ；

[例句] 经过3个周末的追求之后，帕梅拉接受了伦道夫的求婚。 After a three-weekend courtship, Pamela accepted Randolph's proposal of marriage.

[例句] 最终萨姆说服她接受了求婚。 Eventually Sam persuaded her to accept an offer of marriage.

desire to gain，seek for，hanker after ；

[例句] 谁还会企求能得到比这更好的机会呢？ Who could wish for a better opportunity?

[例句] 他们开始企求女王. They began to petition the queen.

make excessive demands，be overcritical，judge too harshly，exaction，exigence ；

[例句] 我们不应当对青年作家太苛求. We should not judge the young writers too harshly.

[例句] 他过于苛求. He is particular to a fault.

do one's best to，strive to，do one's best，strive ；

[例句] 他们力求把开发周期缩至18个月以下。 They aim to cut production lead times to under 18 months.

[例句] 密探可能会力求败坏反对派的名声。 Agents provocateurs may seek to discredit the opposition.

be eager for [after，about]，hanker for [after] ；

[例句] 我喜欢读书,对于体验间接经历有一种不能满足的渴求. I love reading: I have an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience.

[例句] 他渴求知识. He had a great thirst for knowledge.

seek (a job, etc.) ；

[例句] 你身体的各个部位是不是都还听你的话还是向你索求更多? Do they do all you ask of them - and then beg for more?

[例句] 咱们的买主想索求你方价格单或列表. Our buyers question for your price list or catalogue.

desiderate，desirability ；

[例句] 这一切并不意味着资本积累是不值得希求的. All this does not mean that the accumulation of capital is undesirable.

[例句] 并且我也很伤心, 我无能使他了解我而敬重我.我是 什么 也不希求了,除了往西山去. Of course , I'm sorry I've been unable to make myself clearly understood and respected by him.

[数] root，extract，extract a root ；

[例句] 然后根据求根的结果绘制分形图形的方法,绘制出的分形图优美而玄妙, 几何意义明显. The fractal picture is elegancy and singularity, and has obvious geometrical meaning.

[例句] 本文提出一种具有三阶收敛速度的一元方程迭代求根算法. An iteration algorithm for solving single - variable equations is presented here.

appeal to for，fall back on，have recourse to，appeal，recourse ；

[例句] 他们求助于该市最具创新风格的一家博物馆。 For assistance, they turned to one of the city's most innovative museums.

[例句] 他有困难时从不求助于我们. He never refers himself to us when he has difficulties.

lust，lust after，lust for ；

[例句] 唯利是图的人贪求财富. Mercenary men lust for wealth.

[例句] 他贪求权力. He is insatiable of power.

thirst [craving] for knowledge ；

[例句] 他有很强的求知欲. He has a strong thirst for knowledge.

[例句] 在中世纪这个黑暗的年代里, 求知欲全给统治阶级扼杀了. In the benighted Middle Ages, intellectual curiosity was discouraged by the authorities.

complementing，negate ；

[例句] 不允许对2的补数的最小值求反. Negating min value of a two's complement number is not allowed.

[例句] 阅读612页关于求反矩阵的内容. Read pp. 612 on finding the inverse matrix.

admirer，beau，beaux，swain，wooer；

[例句] 求爱者接连不断, 但她一一回绝,不予理睬. Many lovers sought her, but she spurned them all.

[例句] 这条雌蛇离开洞穴后, 会有许多潜在的求爱者. As the female emerges from the den, she is approached by dozens of potential suitors.

[法] suitor，gamomania ；

[例句] 她无法作出决定究竟嫁给众多求婚者中的哪一位. She can't make up her mind which of her many suitors she should marry.

[例句] 在战前威尔当然不是个合格的求婚者. Of course , before the war, Will would certainly not have been an eligible suitor.

[经] job hunter，job seeker ；

[例句] 我们对求职者的要求是具备运算能力，熟练使用电脑，精力充沛而且工作积极主动。 We look for applicants who are numerate, computer-literate and energetic self-starters.

[例句] 不是所有的求职者都有学位。 Not every applicant had a degree.

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[例句] 他不肯挂出求和的信号, 对别的表示也不去理睬. He would hang out no signals , he would take notice of none.

[例句] 求和的运算是通过节点来表示的. The operation of summing is represented by the nodes.

[数] rectification，squaring ；

[例句] 单个弧是不能求长的. The individual arcs cannot be rectified.

[例句] 诸阿斯陀求长命者,成其伴侣. Asita and those who seek long life will become his companions.

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[例句] 据说他曾试图向一名同事求欢。 He had allegedly tried to proposition a colleague.

method of quadrature，quadrature，stereometry ；

[例句] 采用微分求积法求解输流管道的固有频率. The differential quadrature method ( DQM ) is extended to solve the natural frequencies of pipe.