test pit; exploratory shaft; test well (mineralogy)
to go home to visit one's family
to inspect for damage; flaw detection; metal crack detection
to explore; to survey; to prospect (for oil etc); prospecting
to make inquiries; to try to find out; to pry
detective; investigator; agent
to extend one's head (out or into); a probe; detector; search unit
to seek unusual scenery or places
intelligence gatherer; spy; detective; scout; sound (medical instrument); long and narrow probing and sampling utensil
to investigate; to observe; to scout; to seek out and examine; to explore
to search; to seek; to explore
to feel for sth; to grope
to visit; to pay a visit; to call on (somebody); to look around
to examine; to probe; to scout out; to nose around
to seek; to pursue; to investigate
to probe; to take readings; to explore; exploration
to check on sb at his workplace; to come to a movie set to visit one of the actors
to visit a sick person or patient
to visit a prisoner (usu. a relative or friend)
to visit; to go to see what's going on
to prospect; to dig for coal or minerals
to explore a mystery; to probe the unknown
to investigate; to delve; to probe; to enquire into; to look into
to explore; quest; to probe
candidate who came third in the Han-lin examination; see
状元
to visit (a patient, prisoner etc); to look inquiringly
to seek by inquiry or search; to call on; to visit
to inquire into; to ask after
to lean forward; to lean out (of a window, door etc)
to inquire into; to ask after
to explore; to go on an expedition; adventure
to detect mines; mine detection
to make inquiries about sb or sth; to fish for information
to sound out opinions; to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning; also written
探口风
to sound out opinions; to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning
prospector; person exploring for minerals
to bend forward; to lean out
to probe deeply and uncover minute details
to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation); to see through to the nub
detective; to do detective work
to pry into; to spy on; to probe into
to explore; to survey; to prospect (for oil etc); prospecting
detective (in former times)
inside informer; mole; plant
secret agent; detective; covert investigator
to make discreet inquiries; to scout out
to check; to investigate; to probe (into)
master sleuth;
(lit.) miraculous detective; cf Sherlock Holmes
福尔摩斯 or Di Renjie
狄仁杰
to pry into or spy on; to snoop; to peep; to poke one's nose into; to peer; to get a glimpse of
to sound out; to probe; to feel out; to try out
to check out; to investigate