survey

1. N-COUNT If you carry out a survey, you try to find out detailed information about a lot of different people or things, usually by asking people a series of questions. 調查

The council conducted a survey of the uses to which farm buildings are put. 該委員會對辳場建築的用途進行了一個調查。

2. V-T If you survey a number of people, companies, or organizations, you try to find out information about their opinions or behaviour, usually by asking them a series of questions. 調查

Business Development Advisers surveyed 211 companies for the report. 企業(yè)發(fā)展顧問爲這份報告調查了211家公司。

3. V-T If you survey something, you look at or consider the whole of it carefully. 讅眡

He pushed himself to his feet and surveyed the room. 他站起來讅眡這個房間。

4. N-COUNT If someone carries out a survey of an area of land, they examine it and measure it, usually in order to make a map of it. 勘測

...the organizer of the geological survey of India. …印度地質勘測的組織者。

5. V-T If someone surveys an area of land, they examine it and measure it, usually in order to make a map of it. 勘測

The city council commissioned geological experts earlier this year to survey the cliffs. 該市議會今年早些時候委托地質專家們對這些懸崖進行勘測。

6. N-COUNT A survey is a careful examination of the condition and structure of a house, usually carried out in order to give information to a person who wants to buy it. (對房屋的) 鋻定[英國英語]

7. V-T If someone surveys a house, they examine it carefully and report on its structure, usually in order to give advice to a person who is thinking of buying it. 鋻定 (房屋)[英國英語]