look on/upon someone/something as something
phrasal verb with look verb uk/lʊk/ us/lʊk/
C1 将（某人）视为…，把（某人）看作…
to consider or think of someone or something as something
We looked on her as a daughter. 我们把她当女儿看。
I've lived there so long I look on the town as my home. 我在那个小镇住了很长时间，已经把那里当成我的家了。
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- I had begun to look on the house as my own.
- I look on them as my own children.
- I look on it simply as a job that has to be done.
- I look on tax as a necessary evil.
- They look on single mothers as the curse of society.