VERB (在大量相似物中)搜索,搜寻 If you trawl through a large number of similar things, you search through them looking for something that you want or something that is suitable for a particular purpose.
A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves... 一组警员正在翻查数以千计的小偷小摸者的犯罪记录。
Her private secretary has carefully trawled the West End for a suitable show. 她的私人秘书已经在伦敦西区进行了拉网式搜索,以寻找一部合适的剧目。
Trawl is also a noun.
Any trawl through the band's interviews will reveal statements that are challenging and incisive. 随便选取一段对该乐队的访谈都能发现令人深思、犀利精辟的言论。
VERB 用拖网捕(鱼) When fishermen trawl for fish, they pull a wide net behind their ship in order to catch fish.
They had seen him trawling and therefore knew that there were fish... 他们曾见过他用拖网捕鱼,因此知道那里有鱼。
We came upon a fishing boat trawling for Dover sole. 我们碰上一艘正用拖网捕鳎的渔船。
Her private secretary has carefully trawled the West End for a suitable show. 她的私人秘书已经在伦敦西区进行了拉网式搜索,以寻找一部合适的剧目。
They were spotted by artist and programmer Clement Valla who has trawled Earth to collect a string of weird sights. 艺术家兼编程员克莱蒙特.瓦拉在谷歌地图影像上抓取了这些图片,并把这些光怪陆离的画面收集起来。
And he finagled a way, off campus, to interview with several of the top-drawer consulting firms that trawled for recruits at the Ivies but often bypassed schools like Indiana. 而且在校外,他用一种连蒙带骗的方式去参加一些顶尖的咨询公司的面试,这些公司在常春藤学校寻找新雇员,但是总是忽视像印第安纳大学这样的学校。
Researchers in China and the United States trawled through 16 published investigations into diet and health involving more than 830, 000 participants, who were followed for periods ranging from four and a half years to 26 years. 中国和美国的研究者搜索了16种已经出版的饮食和健康调查,涉及到超过83万的参与者,这些人参与并接受了从4年半到26年不等的跟踪调查。
In earlier research, Professor Dunbar trawled through lonely hearts columns in newspapers and magazines to find what qualities people looked for in a partner. 在较早期的研究中,敦巴教授通过报纸和杂志中的“孤独的心”专栏搜罗资料,以发现人们期待配偶身上具有哪些特质。
They trawled the coast for cod. 他们在海岸一带捕鳕鱼。
To find answers to these questions, the team trawled through the data that have accumulated since the Pierre Auger Observatory began operating three years ago. 为了找到这些问题的答案,该科研组整理了自皮埃尔奥杰宇宙线观测站三年前工作时收集的到的所有资料。
Police have trawled the area looking for clues. 警察已搜查了这个地区,试图寻找一些线索。
They have trawled through the data and drawn two powerful conclusions. 他们在梳理数据之后,得出两条强大的结论。
She trawled the play for suitable quotations. 她在剧本中搜集适宜的引语。