Surveyor
[sə'veɪə] or [sɚ'veɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures.
(noun.) someone who conducts a statistical survey.
手打:尼尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
(n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.
(n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.
(n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
(n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.
錄入:谢里夫
例句/造句/用法:
- In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In 1810 Sir Robert Seppings, surveyor of the English navy, devised and introduced the system of diagonal bracing. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- He managed, however, to acquire some knowledge of geometry, and at eighteen entered, as assistant, a surveyor's office. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He called himself a mineral surveyor, and he traveled many thousand miles yearly in connection with his calling and his interest in the study of geology. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The work showed his ingenious fancy, and perhaps determined his father to have him educated as a surveyor. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Nicholas Scull, a surveyor, afterward surveyor-general, who loved books, and sometimes made a few verses. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Where churches were being built he painted glass, where towns or nobles needed measurers or surveyors of their lands he worked for them. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Let them put the horse in the stable, and tell the surveyors they can come back for their traps, said Fred. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
手打:丽塔