词汇精选：survey的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

调查 [U,C]

例句：

A recent survey of public opinion showed that most people didn't like the new chief.

一份新的民意调查显示大多数人不喜欢新领袖。

例句：

According to the survey, overall world trade has also slackened.

根据这项调查，世界贸易整体上也有所放慢。

审视 [C]

例句：

He continued his survey of the landscape.

他继续审视景色。

例句：

I can't agree with you unless you make a survey on this matter.

除非你做个全面的审视，否则我不会同意。

测量，勘测 [U,C]

例句：

A survey of the property showed that there was some oil undergroud.

对这块地产的勘测表明，地下有石油。

例句：

The survey result should be known to the leader.

测量结果应该让领导知道。

纵览；概览 [C]

例句：

This is the survey picture of the garden.

这是这座花园的俯瞰图。

例句：

A survey of advertising history is one of the courses offered this semester.

广告史概论是本学期开的课程之一。

v.

俯瞰 [T]

例句：

You can survey the countryside from the top of a hill.

你可以从山顶俯瞰郊区。

例句：

He concentrated on surveying the small island in the distance.

他凝神俯瞰远处的小岛。

测量，勘测 [I,T]

例句：

They have started to survey the country that the new motorway will pass through.

他们已开始对新公路将要穿过的田野进行测量。

例句：

The task assigned to us was to survey navigation channels.

分配给我们的任务是勘测航道。

调查 [T]

例句：

In five of the villages that were surveyed, nonfarm work provided one quarter of their income.

在被调查的村庄中，五个村庄的非农业劳动UKeng.com/tags-1900-0.html" target="_blank" >收入占其收入的四分之一。

例句：

The police are surveying evidence.

警察在调查现场。

二、词义辨析：

inquiry,investigation,research,survey

这些名词均有“调查”之意。inquiry普通常用词，指正式调查，也指一般的打听或查询。investigation一般指有系统的调查以得到希望发现或需要知道的事。research指科学工作者等为揭示自然规律或获取某个领域的新知识而进行长时间的调查研究。survey多指为写书面报告而进行的民意测验或调查。

三、相关短语：

exploratory survey

探索调查

四、参考例句：

The survey result consisted with our hypothesis.

调查结果和我们的假设相一致。

He includes everything in his survey.

他事事调查，巨细无遗。

There is a survey about students' problems.

这有一个关于学生问题的调查。

He made a survey on learning English.

他做了个学习英语方面的调查。

We conducted a market survey in July.

我们在七月作了一项市场调查。

She stand there and survey the spectacle.

她站在那儿，看着这壮观的景象。

They conducted a survey among UK citizens.

他们在英国公民当中开展了一项调查。

He continued his survey of the landscape.

他继续审视景色。

According to the survey, overall world trade has also slackened.

根据这项调查，世界贸易整体上也有所放慢。

The last chapters survey the closing years of her reign.

最后几章概述了她统治的最后几年。