feeler

[US]/'fiːlə/
[UK]/'filɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. 觸角;試探者;厚薄規
Word Forms
過去式feelered
複數feelers

Phrases & Collocations

sensitive feeler

敏感的觸角

emotional feeler

情感觸角

social feeler

社交觸角

tentative feeler

試探性的觸角

Example Sentences

they were sufficiently depressed to put out peace feelers .

他們十分灰心喪氣,試探性地提出和解。

They’re putting out feelers about the possibility of building a new sports complex in Leeds.

他們正在試探是否有可能在利茲建一個新的綜合體育館。

The Feeler Antlion needs to be kept alive and tanked, and it will spawn an Executioner Antlion periodically.

試探者蟻獅需要保持活着而且儲於槽中, 和它將會定期地產一個死刑運行人蟻獅。

The letter was a feeler to see how he would look upon such a movement.

這封信是一種試探, 看看他如何看待這種運動。

Real-world Examples

I'd better get my feelers out for this Golem character.

我讓手下去找找這位格木先生吧。

Source: Sherlock Original Soundtrack (Season 1)

So you could say I might put the feelers out to see what the team thinks.

所以你可以說,我可能會探探口風,看看團隊的想法。

Source: Emma's delicious English

Do you see the two short feelers which stick out in front of the crab's head?

你看見螃蟹腦袋前面那兩根短觸角了嗎?

Source: British Students' Science Reader

I put out feelers to some of my contacts at New York's finest hotels.

我已經讓我在紐約最好酒店的耳目們留意了。

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Basic Deduction Method Season 2

Step Three: Would you consider yourself more of a thinker or a feeler?

你認爲自己是一個思考者還是一個感受者?

Source: Daily English Listening | Bilingual Intensive Reading

Under these horns are two much shorter feelers. Below these again is the mouth.

這些觸角下方還有兩根觸角, 只是短得多, 在下方就是蝸牛的嘴巴。

Source: British Students' Science Reader

The feelers of the moth have pointed ends.

但是蛾子觸角的末端是尖的。

Source: British Students' Science Reader

Spiders, again, have no feelers in front of their heads, as insects have.

蜘蛛的頭部也沒有昆蟲那樣的觸角。

Source: British Students' Science Reader

It has two round eyes, at the end of short eye-stalks, close to the feelers.

觸角旁邊,在短短的眼柄盡頭,螃蟹還長着兩隻圓眼睛。

Source: British Students' Science Reader

Then it has two feelers, which stick out in front like little brushes.

頭上還有兩根觸角, 像兩把刷子一樣, 突出在腦袋前面。

Source: British Students' Science Reader

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