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

• 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。
• But he'd rather burn off my feelers and watch me squirm.
  但他烧着我的角，眼看着我被烧死。
• Draw a body, a head and two feelers.
  画一个身体，一个头和两个触须。
• 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。
• Their government is putting out feelers through a neutral delegation; they are clearly anxious for a rapprochement.
  他们的政府通过一中立代表试探；很明显他们很想复交。
• The snail drew in its feelers. He took/ played the part of Hamlet.
  蜗牛把触角缩了回去。他去哈姆雷特这个角色。
• Already feelers were out about another script.
  已就另一脚本在向外界进行试探。
• The whiskers act as feelers or antennas, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any narrow passage.
  胡须起了触角的作用，使猫能判断任何狭窄通道的确切宽度。
• 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。
• 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。