scavenger

C2 FREQ #19889

n. (英)清道夫, 清扫工, 拾垃圾的人, 清除剂, 净化剂, 食腐动物, 黄色作家 [计] 清除器

发音

UK /ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

词形变化

scavengers 复数 scavengers scavengered scavengering scavengers 三单 scavengering 现在分词 scavengered 过去式 scavengered 过去分词

别名

skavenger

释义与例句

n. C2
  1. 1.

    Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.

    拾荒者

    garbage scavenger

    A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.

  2. 2.

    An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.

    Vultures are natural scavengers.

  3. 3.

    A street sweeper.

    爱尔兰 英国 废旧
  4. 4.

    A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.

    爱尔兰 英国 历史
  5. 5.

    A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.

    化学
v.
  1. 1.

    To scavenge.

    古体
  2. 2.

    To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.

    古体

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

magpie packrat

上位词 7

animal beast creature brute fauna hoarder chemical agent

下位词 1

bottom feeder

相关短语

scavenger hunt 寻宝游戏（参加者必须找到各种物品） scavenger hunts scavenger sale scavenger sales scavenger beetle scavenger beetles scavenger crab scavenger crabs water scavenger beetle 牙虫 water scavenger beetles white scavenger vulture white scavenger vultures

词源

Originally from Middle English scavager, from Anglo-Norman scawageour (“one who had to do with scavage, inspector, tax collector”), from Old Northern French *scawage, escauwage (“scavage”), Old French *scavage, escavage, alteration of escauvinghe (compare Medieval Latin scewinga, sceawinga), from Old Dutch scauwōn (“to inspect, to examinate, to look at”). Usually reinterpreted/re-analysed today as scavenge (which was originally a backformation from this word) + -er. Compare Old English sċēawung (“a showing, spectacle, examination, inspection, toll on exposure of goods”) and Dutch schouwing (“inspection”). More at show.

来源：wiktionary