0 a long search for something that is difficult to find, or an attempt to achieve something difficult -- 探索；寻求；追求
In his quest for physical perfection, he spends hours in the gym.
The United States is in the van of the quest to establish contact with beings from the beyond.
New equipment is being developed in a quest to stop drinking and driving.
Scientists announced another breakthrough in their quest for a cure for prostate cancer.
But the theatre can and has played many other, deeper, and more important roles in the quest for authentic democracy.
The food quest often involves tasks that require great risk, skill, stamina, and vigor.
The genealogical quest in this otherwise well-researched and very interesting book induces a rather too teleological reading of the works studied.
It is problems like this with keyword-based search that are driving the quest for semantic search engines.
