0 an examination of opinions, behaviour, etc., made by asking people questions -- 调查
1 the measuring and recording of the details of an area of land -- （土地）测量，勘测，测绘
His new book is a survey of European theatre in the 19th century. 他的新书概括介绍了19世纪的欧洲戏剧。
a geological survey 地质勘测
2 to look at or examine all of something, especially carefully -- （尤指认真地）审视，检查
3 to ask people questions in order to find out about their opinions or behaviour -- 调查
Such examples from the linguistic literature could be multiplied, but a survey of different types of incoherence may only increase the confusion.
For studies such as surveys of farmer practice or multidisciplinary trials involving whole systems, plots are unlikely to be relevant.
After an introductory chapter, they survey the concept in a concise, general and convincing way, which could readily be transferred to almost any natural resource.
The core of the material is presented in sufficient detail that the survey may serve as a text for teaching constrained global optimization.
Consequently, elderly participants were not recruited as the survey content would have been irrelevant.
A second relevant concern here is whether we can treat the 901 respondents in our sample as a random subset of all survey participants.
This is a large professional group in primary care and was not adequately represented in the questionnaire survey.
Eighty-three of the 91 (91%) surveyed oncologists returned the questionnaire.
