I left a sergeant in command and rode forward to reconnoitre.

我留下一名警官主持局面，然后骑马出去侦察。

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He was sent to Eritrea to reconnoitre the enemy position.

他被派往厄立特里亚侦察敌军位置。

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A naval patrol was sent to reconnoitre the approaches to the bay.

一支海军巡逻队奉命侦察进入海湾的路线。

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AWACS, which reconnoitre the skies from the eastern Pacific to the Caribbean searching for signs of drug trafficking.

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His reconnoitre had led him, through a vegetable patch given up to weeds, into what had been a garden, its single remaining flower bed marked with seed packets that told what its several rows contained.

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