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Dredge Make River Mud Dredging Bottom People 英

英语单词 dredge
英美音标 英 [dredʒ] 美 [dredʒ]
中文释义 v.用挖泥机疏浚;把粉撒在;努力回忆;翻出
n.挖泥机
英语例句 (1) We can dredge the river to make it deeper.
(2) Unfortuenatelly, it is easy enough for anyone to dredge up bad memories.
(3) You must dredge up the sources of the quotations
(4) Details of his previous affairs were dredged up by the media.
(5) The dredge sat in the boat basin.
中文例句 (1) 我们能把这条河疏浚得深一点。
(2) 不幸的是,任何一个人勾起不好的的回忆总是很容易。
(3) 你必须找出引文的出处。
(4) 他以前的事情的细节被媒体披露出来。
(5) 挖泥船仍然停泊在小湾中。
vocabulary简明 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.
vocabulary扩展 Dredges have been at work in the Hudson River for years getting rid of industrial toxins, dredging up the contaminated sediment and loading it into barges to be carried away. If you've dropped your gold watch or your car rolled into a pond by mistake, there are dredges that can be dragged across the bottom to recover things that have fallen in. You can dredge up memories, too, which usually entails reminding people of unpleasant ones they’d rather forget.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]疏浚;清淤;挖掘 When people dredge a harbour, river, or other area of water, they remove mud and unwanted material from the bottom with a special machine in order to make it deeper or to look for something.
  [V n]
  • Police have spent weeks dredging the lake but have not found his body.

    警方已经花了数周对湖底清淤,但还是没有发现他的尸体。

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