单词	trawl
释义	trawl1 verbtrawl2 noun trawltrawl1 /trɔːl $ trɒːl/ verb [intransitive, transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINtrawl1 Origin: 1500-1600 Middle Dutch tragelen, from tragel ‘net pulled along behind’, probably from Latin tragula; ➔ TRAIL1 Verb Table VERB TABLE trawl Simple Form Present I, you, we, they trawl he, she, it trawls Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they trawled Present perfect I, you, we, they have trawled he, she, it has trawled Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had trawled Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will trawl Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have trawled Continuous Form Present I am trawling he, she, it is trawling you, we, they are trawling Past I, he, she, it was trawling you, we, they were trawling Present perfect I, you, we, they have been trawling he, she, it has been trawling Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been trawling Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be trawling Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been trawling Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Shrimp boats can trawl continuously for hours at a time. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Are we herrings to be trawled in long nets by Saint Peter? As the Rattlesnake beat across the seas, Huxley trawled for specimens of sea creatures using an improvised net. Have you been trawling the sales and picking up every urn and tub that caught your fancy? He trawls for advice and information from dozens of people, who find themselves invited to Kensington Palace quite out of the blue. I trawled a few opinions at dinner with friends the other night and nothing much was forthcoming. Important loans have been trawled from all the major international collections. Mark's eyes trawl the room. Noses trawl along the formica sideboards hoovering up powder. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto look for information in a book, on a computer etc► search to look for information, a document, an Internet page etc on a computer: · You can search on the Internet for the names of dealers in your area.· I searched a few websites, but couldn't find the information I was looking for. ► surf : surf the net/Internet to look at a lot of pages on the Internet, looking for something that interests you: · Many youngsters spend hours surfing the net. ► look up to try to find information by looking in a book, on a list, in computer records: look up something: · If you look up the title of the book, you should then find the author.look something up: · If you don't know what it means, look it up in the dictionary. ► go through to carefully examine a piece of writing, a set of documents, an official record etc in order to find a piece of information or check that there are no mistakes: · He went through the contract quite carefully, checking all the details.· I've finished my essay, but I just need to go through it to check for spelling mistakes. ► trawl/trawl through to look through a large number of records, documents etc for a particular thing or piece of information: · She spent hours trawling through patients' medical records looking for evidence of negligence by doctors. ► scour to read a piece of writing or document very carefully in order to find a piece of information that you need: · He spent half an hour scouring the newspaper for any mention of the fire. ► browse to look for information on the Internet using a computer, especially when you do not know exactly what information you need or where to find it: · Browsing the net one afternoon, I came across Tom's homepage.· One company said that up to half of their employees spend over an hour's work time a day browsing the web. 1to search through a lot of documents, lists etc in order to find out informationtrawl through I’ll have to trawl through all my lecture notes again.trawl for She spent the morning in the library, trawling for information for her project.2to fish by pulling a special wide net behind a boat trawl1 verbtrawl2 noun trawltrawl2 noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A trawl I made through three small-ad market place papers yielded around four pages of diesel cars per 300-400 page issue. After a trawl through its shortlist, a further three prospective sites were added to the already chosen Elstow. Among this lot, the emotional trawl was a bit more of a mixed bag. And as Mike Rowbottom reports, it seems that a trawl around the attic can turn out to be very profitable. And the trawl for tax dodgers also threw up other misdemeanours. Crinoids are brought up in trawls from the deep sea several thousand at a time. Did I look like a hooker on the trawl? Officers worked with the yachting, boating and fishing communities in a constant trawl for information. 1an act of searching through a lot of documents, lists etc in order to find something2 (also trawl net) a wide net that is pulled along the bottom of the sea to catch fish
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