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worm's-eye view

/wurmz-ahy/US // ˈwɜrmzˌaɪ //

虫眼看世界,虫眼看人,虫子的眼睛,虫眼看问题

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.

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Examples

  • In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

  • There had long been another view, however, called “premillennialism.”

  • Barry showed me his room—a one bedroom with a killer view of Riverbank State Park and the Hudson.

  • “A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.

  • The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.

  • But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.

  • His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.

  • The Vine is a universal favorite, and rarely out of view; while it often seems to cover half the ground in sight.

  • Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

  • As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.