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Chinese translation: 掂量（彼此的）实力

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English term or phrase:	assess strength
Chinese translation:	掂量（彼此的）实力
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03:36 Sep 4, 2009

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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

English term or phrase: assess strength

They stared each other down and assessed each other's strength.

I cannot seem to find an adequate or suitable word for assess in this situation.

syung1 KudoZ activity Questions: 1 (none open) Answers: 0 United States
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掂量（彼此的）实力

Explanation:
整句话可理解为：他们互相逼视，掂量彼此的实力。

Hope it can help.

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Ruby Zhou
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掂量（彼此的）实力

Ruby Zhou

互相較量彼此的實力

Guei Lin

探虚实

Esempi

看谁强

lai an

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20 mins confidence:

互相較量彼此的實力

Explanation:
access: evaluate.
assess strength: (互相)較量彼此的實力。
僅供參考。

Guei Lin
United States
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2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

掂量（彼此的）实力

Explanation:
整句话可理解为：他们互相逼视，掂量彼此的实力。

Hope it can help.

Ruby Zhou
Australia
Local time: 08:16
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PRO pts in category: 4

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Thank you everyone!

13 hrs confidence:

探虚实

Explanation:
A common idiomatic expression for "assess each other strengths" is "to size each other up". One possible translation for this is "探虚实".

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Or: 彼此探虚实

Reference: http://www.nciku.com/search/all/size%20up

Esempi
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3 mins confidence:

看谁强

Explanation:
and assessed each other's strength 为 to assess each other's strength

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-09-04 04:56:18 GMT)
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to assess each other's strength = 为了知道、弄清楚对方的实力（即谁的实力大）

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Note added at 1 day22 hrs (2009-09-06 02:07:20 GMT)
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是，我一直想到‘端详，但是 stare sb out = 盯得（某人）把目光移开（朗文进阶词典）-》看谁占上风。

lai an
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