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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

sight [saɪt]
  1. 1. noun [u] (faculty) 视力
  2. 2. noun [c] (spectacle) 景象
  3. 3. noun [c] (on gun) 瞄准器
  4. 4. n pl the sights sights (places of interest) 景点
  5. 5. vt. 看见
    to catch sight of sb/sth
    瞧见某人/某物
    to lose sight of sth
    [fig] 忽略某事
    the sight of sth
    看见某物
    to set one's sights on sth
    立志拥有某物
    in sight
    [lit] 看得见
    out of sight
    不见
    to be in {or} within sight
    [fig] 在望
    at first sight
    乍一看
    I know her by sight
    看到她就知道她是谁
    on sight
    [shoot, arrest+] 一看见就...
    a sight better/worse
    [inf] 好/坏得多

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

sight [saɪt] [saɪt]
  1. 1. noun 看见东西情景景色
    I smiled at the sight of my mother at the airport.
    机场看到妈妈时,我笑了。
  2. 2. noun 奇观壮观
    the sights of the city
    该城的名胜
  3. 3. noun 观看观测视察
  4. 4. noun 看见一瞥
  5. 5. noun 观测器瞄准器瞄准具
    The sight helps you to get a better shot.
    这种瞄准镜可以让你射得更准。
  6. 6. noun 瞄准
  7. 7. noun 视力
    My sight is not very good, so I might need glasses.
    眼神不好,可能得戴眼镜了。
  8. 8. noun 理解力领悟力
  9. 9. noun 视域眼界
  10. 10. noun 看法意见见解
    a hero in her sight
    心目中的英雄
  11. 11. noun [verbal] 难看(或怪异)的人(或物等)
  12. 12. noun [dialect] 大量许多
    a sight better than fighting
    战斗要好得多
    She is a sight thinner than last year.
    她比去年瘦多了。
  13. 13. noun insight的废体
  14. 14. vt. 观察察看
  15. 15. vt. 看见
  16. 16. vt. [American English] 观测
  17. 17. vt. 瞄准器
  18. 18. vt. 调整…的瞄准器
  19. 19. vt. 利用瞄准器)把(枪等)瞄准
  20. 20. vi. 瞄准
  21. 21. vi. (朝某一方向)察看
  22. 22. adjective 即席的;一看即能辨认(或理解…)的
  23. 23. adjective [American English] 见票即付
    sight draft
    即期汇票
  24. 24. noun [主要用于复数形态时]值得观看之物;名胜

Collins English-English Dictionary

sight [saɪt]
  1. 1. n the power or faculty of seeing; perception by the eyes; vision
  2. 2. n the act or an instance of seeing
  3. 3. n the range of vision
    within sight of land
  4. 4. n range of mental vision; point of view; judgment
    in his sight she could do nothing wrong
  5. 5. n a glimpse or view (esp in the phrases catch sight of, lose sight of)
  6. 6. n anything that is seen
  7. 7. n [often plural] anything worth seeing; spectacle
    the sights of London
  8. 8. n [informal] anything unpleasant or undesirable to see
    his room was a sight!
  9. 9. n any of various devices or instruments used to assist the eye in making alignments or directional observations, esp such a device used in aiming a gun
  10. 10. n an observation or alignment made with such a device
  11. 11. n an opportunity for observation
  12. 12. n [obsolete] insight or skill
  13. 13. vt. [tr] to see, view, or glimpse
  14. 14. vt. [tr] to furnish with a sight or sights
  15. 15. vt. to adjust the sight of
  16. 16. vt. to aim (a firearm) using the sight
  17. 17. vt. [Etymology] Old English sihth; related to Old High German siht; see see1

Examples

terrified at the sight
一看见这情景就吓了一跳 at
a common sight
常见的景色 common
a familiar sight
常见的景象 familiar
to feast one's eyes on a sight
尽情欣赏风景,大饱某人眼福 feast
a ship heaving into sight
一艘船驶入视线之中 heave
to be in sight
看得见;在望 in
the sense of sight (taste, touch…)
视(味,触…)觉 sense
a hero in her sight
她心目中的英雄 sight
a sight better than fighting
比战斗要好得多 sight
sight draft
即期汇票 sight

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