单词 | trawl |
释义 | trawl (trɔːl ) Word forms: trawls , trawling , trawled 1. verb If you trawl through a large number of similar things, you search through them looking for something that you want or something that is suitable for a particular purpose. [British] A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves. [VERB + through] Her private secretary has carefully trawled the West End for a suitable show. [VERB noun] Synonyms: search, go, look, check Trawl is also a noun. A trawl through the small print shows long-term investors will be worse off. 2. verb When fishermen trawl for fish, they pull a wide net behind their ship in order to catch fish. They had seen him trawling and therefore knew that there were fish. [VERB] We came upon a fishing boat trawling for Dover sole. [VERB + for] Translations: Chinese: 搜索 Japanese: 徹底的に探す |
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