scavenge
音标:
美音:/ˈskævɪndʒ/,英音:/ˈskævɪndʒ/
听听基本释意:
外刊例句:
It has earned the moniker “bin chicken” for its propensity to scavenge food from anywhere it can – messily raiding garbage and often stealing food right out of people’s hands.
它赢得了“垃圾鸡”的绰号,因为它喜欢从任何可能的地方寻找食物——乱七八糟地搜查垃圾,经常从人们手中偷走食物。
—BBC
Cecilia wanted soap, so Espy handed her a bar she had scavenged from the nearby shelter.
Cecilia 想要肥皂,所以 Espy 递给她一根她从附近避难所搜集来的肥皂。
—New York Times
The local artist scavenges twigs and bark and reassembles the tree scraps into objects that resemble parts of actual trees.
当地艺术家捡拾树枝和树皮,将树屑重新组装成类似于真实树木部分的物体。
—Washington Post
基本释意:
verb
clean refuse from
vt. 以……为食;打扫;排除废气
同义词:
salvage,clean
短释义:
When you scavenge, you pick through discarded things looking for whatever is salvageable and can be reused. If you’re looking for a replacement part for a vintage car, you might scavenge at the dump for a suitable part.
当你捡垃圾时,你会从废弃的东西中挑选出来,寻找任何可以挽救和可以重复使用的东西。如果您正在寻找老爷车的替换零件,您可能会在垃圾场翻找合适的零件。
长释义:
If you’re a freegan you’ve embraced the idea of trying to live for free, recycling and reusing what others have discarded, leaving a small footprint on the planet. You’re on the lookout for good places to scavenge, such as the dumpster behind a busy supermarket, where you might find edible food, or the trash bins at clothing stores, where wearable clothing is tossed out. Vultures, hyenas, and other animals that feed on carrion — dead animals — also scavenge.
如果你是一个自由主义者,你已经接受了尝试免费生活、回收和再利用别人丢弃的东西的想法,在地球上留下一个小足迹。您正在寻找好地方进行清理,例如繁忙的超市后面的垃圾箱,您可能会在那里找到可食用的食物,或者服装店的垃圾桶,可穿戴的衣服会被扔掉。秃鹰、鬣狗和其他以腐肉为食的动物——死动物——也会食腐。
文学例句:
“She might have been a swank once. But she’s scavenge now.”
“她可能曾经是一个时髦的人。但她现在正在清道夫。”
—Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
He stuffed the sandwich back into the bag, wishing he’d found it the day before and tossed it to the dogs scavenging the Dumpsters, and got up again.
他把三明治塞回袋子里,希望他在前一天找到它并把它扔给在垃圾箱里捡垃圾的狗,然后又站了起来。
—Pax by Sara Pennypacker
At daybreak we scavenged in the wreckage of the box, but what hadn’t been eaten was mashed into the wet pine needles.
天亮时,我们在箱子的残骸中寻找食物,但没有吃的东西被捣成湿松针。
—Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
词源:
scavenge (v.)1640s, transitive, “cleanse from filth,” a back-formation from scavenger (q.v.). The intransitive meaning “search through rubbish” for usable food or objects is suggested by 1880s; the transitive sense of “extract and collect anything usable from discarded material” is by 1922. Related: Scavenged; scavenging.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
scavenge (v.)1640s,及物,“清除污物”,来自清道夫 (qv) 的反演。 1880 年代提出了不及物意义“在垃圾中搜索”可用的食物或物品; “从废弃材料中提取和收集任何可用的东西”的及物意义是到 1922 年。清除。相关条目及更多
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