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

• 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。
• I bought one size up by mistake.
  我错买了大一号的尺寸。
• While some size up trade balances and growth trajectories, others are measuring missile ranges and comparing military parades.
  有些人在比较两国的贸易额和增长轨迹，其他人则在计算导弹射程，对比阅兵的声势。
• 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。
• One handy way to size up a charity is to pay attention to how much money it spends on overheads such as administration and fundraising, rather than frontline do-gooding.
  衡量一家慈善机构，一个简便的计算方法是考虑它有多少钱花费在了经营中，如行政管理和筹款，而不是用在第一线帮助他人。
• He spent the evening sizing me up intellectually.
  他整晚都在若有所思地打量我。
• "Please don't say 'size up,'" she interrupted.
  请不要用‘估算’，她插嘴道。
• 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。
• They will size up the island.
  他们要估算一下这个岛的面积。
• Make a piece of the same size UP stick on by gumwater.
  作一片一样小小的UP用胶水贴下去的。