| 词汇 | bird's eye view |
| 释义 | Idiom bird's eye view a view from a very high place which allows you to see a large area.We had a bird's eye view of the old town from the top of the city walls. a bird's eye view1. A view looking down at an object or area from a high elevation (as if from the perspective of a bird in flight). From up here you can get a bird's eye view of the entire campus. 2. A consideration of a problem or situation from a comprehensive perspective. In order to determine why the company was headed towards a fiscal disaster, the CFO had to take a step back and get a bird's eye view of the situation so he could locate the cause of the problem. bird's eye viewAn overview, as in This balcony gives us a bird's eye view of the town, or This course gives you a bird's eye view of history-from Eolithic man to the Gulf War in one semester . This expression can be used literally, for a panoramic view such as a bird might see, as well as figuratively. [c. 1600] —'s-eye viewa view from the position or standpoint of the person or thing specified.The most common versions of this phrase are bird's-eye view (see bird) and worm's-eye view (see worm). 1982 Ian Hamilton Robert Lowell There is a kind of double vision: the child's eye view judged and interpreted by the ironical narrator. |
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