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. 调查

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

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

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

...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

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]