spy out the land

基本解释

• 窺測方曏

同根派生

英汉例句

雙語例句

• are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
  他的臣僕來見你不是爲詳察窺探，傾覆這地嗎。
• These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
  這就是摩西所打發，窺探那地之人的名字。摩西就稱嫩的兒子何希阿爲約書亞。
• NASB:When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he said to them, "Go up there into the Negev; then go up into the hill country."
  呂震中本：摩西打發他們去窺探迦南地，對他們說∶「你們 這就是從 這裡取道南地上去，直上山地。

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• If you spy out the land, you try to get knowledge of something before you do something.