詞彙精選：survey的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
調查 [U,C]
例句：
A recent survey of public opinion showed that most people didn't like the new chief.
一份新的民意調查顯示大多數人不喜歡新領袖。
例句：
According to the survey, overall world trade has also slackened.
根據這項調查，世界貿易整體上也有所放慢。
審視 [C]
例句：
He continued his survey of the landscape.
他繼續審視景色。
例句：
I can't agree with you unless you make a survey on this matter.
除非你做個全面的審視，否則我不會同意。
測量，勘測 [U,C]
例句：
A survey of the property showed that there was some oil undergroud.
對這塊地產的勘測表明，地下有石油。
例句：
The survey result should be known to the leader.
測量結果應該讓領導知道。
縱覽；概覽 [C]
例句：
This is the survey picture of the garden.
這是這座花園的俯瞰圖。
例句：
A survey of advertising history is one of the courses offered this semester.
廣告史概論是本學期開的課程之一。
v.
俯瞰 [T]
例句：
You can survey the countryside from the top of a hill.
你可以從山頂俯瞰郊區。
例句：
He concentrated on surveying the small island in the distance.
他凝神俯瞰遠處的小島。
測量，勘測 [I,T]
例句：
They have started to survey the country that the new motorway will pass through.
他們已開始對新公路將要穿過的田野進行測量。
例句：
The task assigned to us was to survey navigation channels.
分配給我們的任務是勘測航道。
調查 [T]
例句：
In five of the villages that were surveyed, nonfarm work provided one quarter of their income.
在被調查的村莊中，五個村莊的非農業勞動收入佔其收入的四分之一。
例句：
The police are surveying evidence.
警察在調查現場。
二、詞義辨析：
inquiry,investigation,research,survey
這些名詞均有“調查”之意。inquiry普通常用詞，指正式調查，也指一般的打聽或查詢。investigation一般指有系統的調查以得到希望發現或需要知道的事。research指科學工作者等爲揭示自然規律或獲取某個領域的新知識而進行長時間的調查研究。survey多指爲寫書面報告而進行的民意測驗或調查。
三、相關短語：
exploratory survey
探索調查
四、參考例句：
The survey result consisted with our hypothesis.
調查結果和我們的假設相一致。
He includes everything in his survey.
他事事調查，鉅細無遺。
There is a survey about students' problems.
這有一個關於學生問題的調查。
He made a survey on learning English.
他做了個學習英語方面的調查。
We conducted a market survey in July.
我們在七月作了一項市場調查。
She stand there and survey the spectacle.
她站在那兒，看着這壯觀的景象。
They conducted a survey among UK citizens.
他們在英國公民當中開展了一項調查。
He continued his survey of the landscape.
他繼續審視景色。
According to the survey, overall world trade has also slackened.
根據這項調查，世界貿易整體上也有所放慢。
The last chapters survey the closing years of her reign.
最後幾章概述了她統治的最後幾年。
