size up

英 [saɪz ʌp]

美 [saɪz ʌp]

打量; 估计; 判断; 评估

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 打量;估计;判断;评估
  If yousize upa person or situation, you carefully look at the person or think about the situation, so that you can decide how to act.
  1. Some US manufacturers have been sizing up the UK as a possible market for their clothes...
     一些美国生产商一直在观察英国是否会成为他们的成衣潜在市场。
  2. He spent the evening sizing me up intellectually.
     他整晚都在若有所思地打量我。

英英释义

verb

• to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
  1. he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror
  Synonym:take stockscrutinizescrutinise

双语例句

• The pilot's job was to fly over the stricken area and size up the situation.
  飞行员的任务是视察受灾地区，估量灾情。
• This division will serve as a guide for the masses to size up people and will make it easier to win over the middle elements and isolate the Rightists.
  划分了，使群众有一个观察人们的方向，便于争取中间，孤立右派。
• Some US manufacturers have been sizing up the UK as a possible market for their clothes
  一些美国生产商一直在观察英国是否会成为他们的成衣潜在市场。
• Can I have the next size up?
  我可以要大一号的吗？
• Size up the situation before acting.
  先评估情况再行动。
• I bought one size up by mistake.
  我错买了大一号的尺寸。
• He attempted to size up the reaction of the audience.
  他试图对听从的反应估计。
• Human nature seems to endow people with the ability to size up everybody in the world but themselves.
  人类的天性似乎赋予我们能力去评估这世界上所有的人，但却不包括我们自己。
• Consider tuning the nursery size up or down so that collections happen when there are fewer live objects in the nursery, or consider changing to another GC policy.
  考虑调整婴儿区域的大小，以便在婴儿区域中的活动对象较少时执行收集，或者考虑另一个GC策略。
• Can you size up the situation?
  你可以估计一下形势吗？