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

• "Please don't say 'size up,'" she interrupted.
  请不要用‘估算’，她插嘴道。
• After all, the handshake was the face-to-face opportunity to size up a potential partner.
  毕竟，握手是一次面对面的机会，可以对潜在的合作者进行评价。
• Let's pool our information and size up the situation.
  大家斗一斗情况。
• 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。
• Size up the person you're confronting, and be ready to protect yourself, especially if it's a stranger.
  大量你的对峙的对方，准备好保护自己，尤其如果那是一个陌生人。
• 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。
• 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。
• Maybe you should go one size up.
  可能你得穿大一号的。
• He glanced back constantly, to size up the situation.
  他不断地回头看，估量形势。
• Getting to know your surroundings can change how you size up a risk.
  了解你周边的环境可以改变你对风险程度的评估。