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小词详解 | scout
scout 英 [skaʊt] 美 [skaʊt]
East German-style national talent-scouting programmes were created, producing Olympic medallists from those who had never previously played the sport—in the process debunking a widespread notion that 10,000 hours are needed to achieve excellence in a skill.
英国设立了东德式的全国人才探寻计划,从以前从未参加过某项运动的人中制造出了奥运奖牌获得者——在这个过程中破除了需要一万小时才能在某项技能上实现卓越的流行观念。
——《经济学人》Rooted in the Soviet model, the Chinese system relies on the state to scout tens of thousands of children for full-time training at more than 2,000 government-run sports schools.
中国的体育制度植根于苏联模式,靠国家将数万名儿童物色出来,送进2000多所公办体育学校进行全日制训练。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 在各种不同的地方寻找某人或某物
你不能坐在这里袖手旁观。你得四处查看,找个过夜的地方。
You can't sit here on the sidelines and watch. You should scout the area for somewhere to stay the night.
这位雄心勃勃的销售培训生正在康涅狄格州探访东海岸房产市场。
The sales trainee with grandiose ambitions is visiting Connecticut to scout out the east coast housing market.
The dark corridor behind it led, as they knew from their careful scouting trips, into an empty theater.
他们通过多次仔细侦察知道,门后黑乎乎的走廊通向一个无人的剧院。
ferret: search tenaciously for and find something lookout: a person stationed to keep watch for danger or trouble outrider: a person in a motor vehicle or on horseback who goes in front of or beside a vehicle as an escort or guard