feelers

英 [ˈfiːləz]

美 [ˈfilərz]

n.  (某些昆虫和贝壳动物的)触角，触须
feeler的复数

柯林斯词典

• (昆虫的)触角，触须
  An insect'sfeelersare the two thin stalks on its head with which it touches and senses things around it.
• N-PLURAL 试探手段
  If youput out feelers, you make careful, quiet contacts with people in order to get information from them, or to find out what their reaction will be to a suggestion.
  1. When vacancies occur, the office puts out feelers to the universities.
     有空缺职位的时候，办事处就到各个大学去打探。

双语例句

• The management put out feelers to find out what sort of catering the staff really wanted for the new canteen.
  为查明职员们对新餐厅供应伙食种类的实际要求，管理部门进行了调查。
• He sent out a few cautious feelers and received some contradictory answers.
  他作过几次谨慎的试探，得到的答复前后不一。
• What insects have long feelers? What insects have short feelers?
  什么昆虫的触角长？什么昆虫的触角短？
• I'll try to put out some feelers to gauge people's reactions to our proposal.
  我想试探一下，看看人们对我们建议的反应。
• Both labor and management are putting out feelers.
  劳资双方相互试探对方。
• Ferguson was concerned by a potential lack of attacking personnel even before solskjaer's announcement yesterday, having put out feelers last week through a handful of trusted agents, with Dimitar berbatov, of Tottenham hotspur, his principal target.
  弗格森爵士在索尔斯克亚退役之前就担心攻击手的缺乏，上周通过一个靠得住的经纪人试探了热刺前锋贝尔巴托夫。
• Put out feelers cautiously check the views of others
  谨慎地试探别人的观点
• When vacancies occur, the office puts out feelers to the universities.
  有空缺职位的时候，办事处就到各个大学去打探。
• Already feelers were out about another script.
  已就另一脚本在向外界进行试探。
• These tenants of the deep have evolved some extremely ingenious devices, such as enormous eyes, feelers for locating their food and enemies.
  这些深海居民已经进化出一些非常独特的器官，像巨大的眼睛、触须等以便探测食物和敌人的位置。