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scavenge
常考释义
vi. 寻找有用的东西(或食物)
The only time I left my dwelling was to scavenge for food at my parents' house, or to grab a quick shower, as our apartment's hot water had been turned off.
只有两件事能让我离开住处——去父母家觅食,或者去外面的浴室冲凉,因为我公寓的热水杯停止供应了。
vi. 拾废品;捡破烂
Poor children scavenge through garbage.
可怜的孩子们翻捡垃圾。
vt. 以(腐食物)为食,吃(腐肉、垃圾等):
A jackal is a kind of the animal that scavenges rotten meat.
豺是一种食腐肉的动物。
The fish and crabs scavenge for decaying tissue.
鱼和蟹搜寻腐烂的组织为食。
vt. 清扫;打扫
In the nearest future the equipment will scavenge the sound produced by motorway traffic at rush hour and using it to give the national grid a boost.
在不久的将来,这种装置也可用来清除汽车高速公路高峰时产生的噪音,并将产生的电输送给电网。
vt. 清除(自由基等)【化】
This mask includes Vitamin C, Alpha Lipoic Acid, and additional antioxidants which scavenge free radicals .
这款面膜含维生素C、硫辛酸和其他可清除自由基的抗氧剂。
vt. 纯化
Most of the time particles are transported from Europe during rainy, "cyclonic" weather systems "that efficiently scavenge air pollution, " he says.
且大多数情况下,来自欧洲的颗粒物是通过降雨传输到英国,而降雨这种“气旋天气系统”实际上可以有效地清除空气污染。
vt. (在废弃物中)捡拾,翻找
Cruz had to scavenge information from newspapers and journals.
克鲁兹只好从报纸和杂志中搜寻信息。
You can often scavenge nice bit of old furniture from skip.
从废物堆里往往能捡到一些挺好的旧家具。
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