survey CET4 TEM4 ( surveying, surveyed, surveys )

名词读作ˈsɜːveɪ。动词读作sɜːˈveɪ，在义项 survey和 survey中亦可读作ˈsɜːveɪ。

• 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. 调查

  例：

  The council conducted a survey of the uses to which farm buildings are put.

  该委员会对农场建筑的用途进行了一个调查。

• 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. 调查

  例：

  Business Development Advisers surveyed 211 companies for the report.

  企业发展顾问为这份报告调查了211家公司。

• 3. 

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

  例：

  He pushed himself to his feet and surveyed the room.

  他站起来审视这个房间。

• 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. 勘测

  例：

  ...the organizer of the geological survey of India.

  …印度地质勘测的组织者。

• 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. 勘测

  例：

  The city council commissioned geological experts earlier this year to survey the cliffs.

  该市议会今年早些时候委托地质专家们对这些悬崖进行勘测。

• 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. (对房屋的) 鉴定 [英国英语]

• 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. 鉴定 (房屋) [英国英语]