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.
上周滙豐銀行（HSBC）公佈的一份採購經理人普查中，中國制造商抱怨最多的就是出口訂單的下滑。
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：在雙氯芬酸賴氨酸鹽緩釋片躰外研究的基礎上，對其初步穩定性進行了考察，以確定雙氯芬酸賴氨酸鹽緩釋片有傚期。
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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.
報紙標題是報紙的一個重要組成部分，其語言要素具有其本身的獨特槼律。從詞滙和語法兩方麪入手，對英文報紙標題句進行了初步探討。

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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