preliminary survey

基本解释

Falling export orders was one of the complaints voiced by Chinese manufacturers in a preliminary survey of purchasing managers published by HSBC last week.
上周汇丰银行（HSBC）公布的一份采购经理人普查中，中国制造商抱怨最多的就是出口订单的下滑。
AIM: On the basis of in vitro study, a preliminary survey of the stability of diclofenac lysine sustained-release tables(DLST) was carried out to identify the period of validity.
目的：在双氯芬酸赖氨酸盐缓释片体外研究的基础上，对其初步稳定性进行了考察，以确定双氯芬酸赖氨酸盐缓释片有效期。
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Headline is an important component of a newspaper with peculiar language features; Here a preliminary survey is made on the English headlines, mainly on its lexical and grammatical features.
报纸标题是报纸的一个重要组成部分，其语言要素具有其本身的独特规律。从词汇和语法两方面入手，对英文报纸标题句进行了初步探讨。

His comments seemed to calm the inflation fears for now—and surprisingly, a preliminary survey from the University of Michigan showed that expectations are for a 2.9% CPI for the next five years.
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U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday is light and includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, preliminary productivity and costs, and the weekly DOE energy stocks report.
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