trawl

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n. 拖网 v. 用拖网捕鱼

发音

UK /tɹɔːl/
其它
US /tɹɔl/
US /tɹɑl/

词形变化

trawls 复数 trawled trawling trawls 三单 trawls trawling 现在分词 trawled 过去式 trawled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A net or dragnet used for trawling.

  2. 2.

    A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.

  3. 3.

    An exhaustive search.

    I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.

v.
  1. 1.

    To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.

    及物/不及物

    The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.

  2. 2.

    To fish from a slow-moving boat.

    不及物

    They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.

  3. 3.

    To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.

    不及物

    We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

dragnet spiller setline trawlnet trotline

上位词 3

fishnet fishing line fishing net
动词

上位词 1

fish

相关短语

trawl whiting trawl net 拖网 pelagic trawl

词源

16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray.

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