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sur.vey obj LOOK ATHsE5veI, $5sV:r7veIv [T]slightly fml to look at or examine (something), esp. carefully审视,观察After we'd finished painting the kitchen, we stood back and surveyed our work.我们漆完厨房后朝后退了几步对工作成果审视了一番。They climbed to the top of a nearby rock and surveyed the scene around them.他们爬到附近的一块岩石顶上俯瞰周围的风景。She has written a book which surveys (= describes in detail) the history of feminism.她写了一本详述女权运动历史的书。(Br) If a building is surveyed (Aus inspected), it is examined carefully by a specially trained person, in order to discover whether there is anything wrong with its structure.查勘,检验(建筑物)I would never buy a house without having it surveyed first.我决不会在勘查房子之前就把它买下。To survey an area of land is to measure it and record the details of it, esp. on a map.测量(土地)The schoolchildren surveyed 100 square kilometres for a botanical atlas.学童们为画一张植物图而测量了100平方公里的土地。Before the new railway was built, its route was carefully surveyed.在新铁路建造以前仔细勘测了它的路线。(humorous) If you are lord/master/mistress/king/queen of all you survey, you own or control the place in which you live or work.主人,当权者
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