probe
n
1 tool for examining a place whichcannot be reached otherwise, esp a thin implement with a blunt end used by a doctor for examining a wound 探查工具; 探测器; (尤指医生用的)探子, 探针.
2 (also `space probe) unmanned spacecraft which obtains information about space and transmits it back to earth 航天探测器(一种不载人的宇宙飞船, 用以搜集有关宇宙的资料, 并发送回地球)
information about Venus obtained by Russian probes 由俄国航天探测器获得的有关金星的信息.
3 ~ (into sth) (esp in journalism) thorough and careful investigation of sth (尤作新闻用语)探究, 深入的调查
a probe into the disappearance of government funds 对政府资金流失一事的调查.
4 act of probing 探查; 探测; 调查. probe, v
1 [Tn] explore or examine (sth) with or as if with a probe(1) (用或似用探针等)探查, 探测
He probed the swelling anxiously with his finger. 他很担心地用手指触摸肿处.
Searchlights probed the night sky. 探照灯探查夜空.
2 [I, Ipr, Tn]
~ (into sth) investigate or examine (sth) closely 细查, 探究(某事物)
The journalist was probing into several financial scandals. 那记者正在调查几起财务丑事.
She tried to probe his mind to find out what he was thinking. 她想深入了解他的思想, 好知道他在想什麽. probing adj intended to discover the truth; searching 追根究底的; 探索的
He was asking probing questions. 他提出了一些盘根究底的问题.
I can't find it. There are just a few loose coins at the back of the drawer.
我也找不到。在抽屉底只有一些零散的钱币。
New Zealand is also home to about 170,000 Pacific Islanders from Oceania who have settled mainly in Auckland in North Island.
新西兰也是那些来自大洋诸岛大约170,000岛民的家园,他们大多定居在北岛的奥克兰。
Professor Karl von Frisch, an Austrian scientist, spent many years of his life researching the amazing ways honey bees communicate in their dark hives.