gaze /ˈgez/
 注視,凝視(vi.)注視,凝視
 gaze /ˈgez/ 不及物動詞
 凝視,注視
 Gaze v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gazed p. pr. & vb. n. Gazing.]  To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
    Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?   --Acts i. 11.
 Syn: -- To gape; stare; look.
 Usage: -- To Gaze, Gape, Stare. To gaze is to look with fixed and prolonged attention, awakened by excited interest or elevated emotion; to gape is to look fixedly, with open mouth and feelings of ignorant wonder; to stare is to look with the fixedness of insolence or of idiocy. The lover of nature gazes with delight on the beauties of the landscape; the rustic gapes with wonder at the strange sights of a large city; the idiot stares on those around with a vacant look.
 Gaze, v. t. To view with attention; to gaze on . [R.]
    And gazed a while the ample sky.   --Milton.
 Gaze, n.
 1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
 With secret gaze
 Or open admiration him behold.   --Milton.
 2. The object gazed on.
    Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze.   --Milton.
 At gaze (a) Her. With the face turned directly to the front; -- said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon. (b) In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing.
 I that rather held it better men should perish one by one,
 Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!   --Tennyson.
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 gaze
      n : a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me" [syn:
          regard]
      v : look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher
          with amazement" [syn: stare]