追逐或追赶某人或某物，通常是为了抓住或追求他们
追求或试图获得某人的爱、关注或喜欢
追求或试图获得某物，特别是在商业或经济方面
run after //
动词 to pursue (a member of the opposite sex) with persistent attention 追求(异性)
... run after 追赶；追逐 strength---strong 力, 力量, 力气, 实力, 兵力, 浓度 strength 尤指身体的，精神的或道德上的坚强力量或活力： ...
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追求；追赶；追逐
They were obliged to run after him continually, now left, now right, wherever his legs took him.
她们不得不不停地跟着他跑，一会儿左，一会儿右，紧紧跟着他。
Lots of kids like to run after Ted's pet.
很多孩子喜欢追着泰德的宠物跑。
The hunter waved to the dog to run after it.
猎人向狗挥手，让狗去追它。
But finally, after much urging from other party leaders, he agreed to run against Grant.
VOA : special.2010.02.11
After all, if we're saying once you've run out of life, is there any more life?
再换个问法,如果生命已经消逝了,是否还有生命呢
死亡课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.
可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。
1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
But she also beat the girl. Eartha would run away after beatings.
VOA : special.2009.06.07
After four years as president, James Buchanan decided not to run again.
VOA : special.2009.07.09
Mr Strauss-Kahn abandoned plans to run after he was accused of rape last year.
Biden abandoned his White House run after a poor showing in Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses.
On September 7, The FX series "Rescue Me" will end its run after seven seasons.