n.[C]

1. 样品，样本；试用品
   Our firm gives away free samples of cloth.

   我们公司免费赠送布料样品。

2. 例子，实例
   You'd better give a sample of your ability or skill.

   你最好举例说明你的能力或技巧。

3. 集锦歌

a.[B]

1. 样品的；试样的
   He sent me a sample copy of the book.

   他寄给我一本样书。

2. 作为例子的

vt.

1. 取……的样品；抽样检查
   His job is to sample products for defects.

   他的工作是抽样检查产品的瑕疵。

2. 品尝；体验
   Next he sampled the red wine.

   接着他又品尝了红葡萄酒。

3. 浏览
   I spent a few days sampling the literature of social science.

   我花了几天时间浏览有关社会科学的文献。

4. 由若干歌曲中选取精华结合写成新歌

n.

1. a small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is like.
   ▸Statistics  a portion of a population, serving as a basis for estimates of the attributes of the whole population.
2. a specimen taken for scientific testing or analysis.
3. a sound created by sampling.

v.

1. take a sample or samples of.
2. get a representative experience of.
3. Electronics  ascertain the momentary value of (an analogue signal) many times a second so as to convert the signal to digital form.
   ▸record or extract (a piece of music or sound) digitally for reuse as part of a composition or song.