1 VERB 调查；打探；探究；探听 If you probe into something, you ask questions or try to discover facts about it. 调查；打探；探究；探听
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The more they probed into his background, the more inflamed their suspicions would become. [VERB + into]
他们越调查他的背景，疑团就越多。
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For three years, I have probed for understanding. [VERB + for]
3年来，我一直都想弄明白。
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The Office of Fair Trading has been probing banking practices. [VERB noun]
公平贸易署一直在对银行业务进行调查。
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The form asks probing questions. [VERB-ing]
这个表格问了一些试探性的问题。
SYN examine, research, go into, investigate
2 VERB （医生或牙医用细长的工具）探查，检查，探测 If a doctor or dentist probes, he or she uses a long instrument to examine part of a patient's body. （医生或牙医用细长的工具）探查，检查，探测
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The surgeon would pick up his instruments, probe, repair and stitch up again. [VERB]
外科医生会拿起他的工具，探查、修复然后再重新缝合。
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Dr Amid probed around the sensitive area. [VERB prep./adv.]
阿米德医生在敏感区周围检查。
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A doctor probed deep in his shoulder wound for shrapnel. [VERB prep./adv.]
一位医生伸进他肩膀伤口的深处寻找弹片。
SYN explore, examine, poke, prod
3 N-COUNT （医生和牙医用的）探针 A probe is a long thin instrument that doctors and dentists use to examine parts of the body. （医生和牙医用的）探针
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...a fibre-optic probe.
光纤探针
4 VERB 搜寻；搜查 If you probe a place, you search it in order to find someone or something that you are looking for. 搜寻；搜查
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A flashlight beam probed the underbrush only yards away from their hiding place. [VERB noun]
一束手电筒的光束在离他们的藏身之地只有几码远的灌木丛里搜寻着。
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I probed around for some time in the bushes. [VERB adv./prep.]
我在矮树丛里四处搜寻了一段时间。
5 VERB 侦察，侦探（敌情） In a conflict such as a war, if one side probes another side's defences, they try to find their weaknesses, for example by attacking them in specific areas using a small number of troops. 侦察，侦探（敌情） [journalism]
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He probes the enemy's weak positions, ignoring his strongholds. [VERB noun]
他侦察敌人兵力薄弱的位置，对其要塞不予理睬。
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Squads of prison officers have been probing the rioters' defences. [VERB noun]
几队狱警一直都在探察暴乱者的防卫情况。
6 N-COUNT [usually n NOUN] 航天探测器；太空探测器 A space probe is a spacecraft which travels into space with no people in it, usually in order to study the planets and send information about them back to earth. 航天探测器；太空探测器
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Its rings were discovered by telescope from Earth, but space probes later found that spectacular rings surround some other planets.
它的圆环是从地球上用望远镜发现的，但是太空探测器后来又发现了围绕其他一些星球的壮观的圆环。
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The Pioneer probes have on board ultraviolet instruments which are measuring light that we can't measure on the earth.
“先驱者号”太空探测器上装有紫外线仪器，能够对在地球上探测不到的光进行测量。
| Word Link | prob ≈ testing : probate, probation, probe |
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