trawl
trawl
verb
[no obj.]
verb
[no obj.]
- fish with a trawl net or seine
用拖网（围网）捕鱼
the boats trawled for flounder.
渔船用拖网捕鲆鱼。
[as noun trawling]restrictions on excessive trawling were urgently needed.
急需对拖网滥捕现象进行限制。
■[with obj.]catch with a trawl or seine
用拖网（围网）捕捉
■search thoroughly
彻底搜查
the Home Office trawled through twenty-five-year-old confidential files.
内政部彻底查看了25年前的机密档案。
[with obj.]he trawled his memory and remembered locking the door.
他极力回忆，终于想起已经锁了门。
■[with obj.]drag or trail (something) through water or other liquid
（在水等液体中）拖，拽（某物）
she trawled a toe to test the temperature.
她把脚趾在水中划了一下，试试水温。
- an act of fishing with a trawl net or seine
用拖网（围网）捕鱼
they had caught two trout on the lazy trawl up-lake.
他们在水流缓慢的上湖用拖网捉到了两条鳟鱼。
■a thorough search
彻底搜查
a constant trawl for information.
不间断的信息搜集。
■(亦作 trawl net)a large wide-mouthed fishing net dragged by a boat along the bottom of the sea or a lake
拖网 - (亦作trawl line)(N. Amer.)a long sea-fishing line along which are tied buoys supporting baited hooks on short lines
(北美)（捕海鱼的）排钩
- mid 16th cent. (as a verb): probably from Middle Dutch traghelen 'to drag' (related to traghel 'dragnet'), perhaps from Latin tragula 'dragnet'
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