Police knew eta had reconnoitred the building .

警察了解到埃塔组织事前曾勘察过警察宿舍。

A small group of soldiers reconnoitred the territory before the attack .

一小队士兵在进攻前侦察了该区域。

That dairy-house , so humble , so insignificant , so purely to him a place of constrained sojourn that he had never hitherto deemed it of sufficient importance to be reconnoitred as an object of any quality whatever in the landscape ; what was it now ?

奶牛场的住宅简陋不堪，无足轻重，他纯粹是迫不得已才来这儿寄居的，所以从来就没有重视它，也没有发现在这片景物里有一件有价值的东西让他留恋。但是这所住宅现在又是什么样子呢？