dredge
dredge 英 [dredʒ] 美 [drɛdʒ]
v. 清淤，挖掘；打捞；撒
进行时:dredging 过去式:dredged 过去分词:dredged 第三人称单数:dredges 名词复数:dredges
- When a harbor becomes filled with silt, you dredge it to make it navigable again. You scoop out the mud with a big shovel, which is also called a dredge, and make a channel deep enough for ships.
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- v. 清淤，挖掘；打捞；撒
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1. They're dredging the harbour so that larger ships can use it.
他们正在疏浚港湾以便大船驶入。
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2. They dredge the bay for gravel.
他们在挖掘海湾沙砾。
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3. waste dredged up from the seabed
从海底打捞出的废物
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4. Dredge the top of the cake with icing sugar.
把糖霜撒在蛋糕面上。
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5. The papers keep trying to dredge up details of his past love life.
这些报纸老是翻出他以往爱情生活的琐事。
- dredge (n.) late 15c., in Scottish dreg-boat "boat for dredging," perhaps ultimately from root of drag (possibly via Middle Dutch dregghe "drag-net"). The verb is attested from c. 1500 in Scottish. Related: Dredged; dredging.
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