monitor /ˈmɒnɪtə/ CET4 TEM4 ( monitoring, monitored, monitors )

• 1. 

  V-T If you monitor something, you regularly check its development or progress, and sometimes comment on it. 监控

  例：

  Officials had not been allowed to monitor the voting.

  官员们未曾获许监控选举。

• 2. 

  V-T If someone monitors radio broadcasts from other countries, they record them or listen carefully to them in order to obtain information. 监听

  例：

  Peter Murray is in Washington and has been monitoring reports out of Monrovia.

  彼得·默里在华盛顿，一直监听来自蒙罗维亚的报道。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT A monitor is a machine that is used to check or record things, for example processes or substances inside a person's body. 监控器

  例：

  The heart monitor shows low levels of consciousness.

  心脏监控器显示低意识水平。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT A monitor is a screen which is used to display certain kinds of information, for example on a computer, in airports, or in television studios. 显示屏

  例：

  He was watching a game of tennis on a television monitor.

  他那时正在电视监控器上观看一场网球赛。

• 5. 

  N-COUNT You can refer to a person who checks that something is done correctly, or that it is fair, as a monitor. 监督员

  例：

  Government monitors will continue to accompany reporters.

  政府监督员们将继续陪同记者们。