| 释义 |
bird's eye view
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  bird's eye view - a situation or topic as if viewed from an altitude or distancepanoramic viewperspective, view, position - a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" |
bird's eye view
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.See also: eye, viewbird'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] See also: eye, view—'s-eye view a 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. AcronymsSeeBEVbird's eye view
Related to bird's eye view: street viewSynonyms for bird's eye viewnoun a situation or topic as if viewed from an altitude or distanceSynonymsRelated Words |