spy out the land
基本解释
- 窺測方曏
英汉例句
- 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。
雙語例句
英英字典
- If you spy out the land, you try to get knowledge of something before you do something.