trawl

柯林斯詞典

1. V-T/V-I 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. 搜索
A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves. 一隊(duì)警察正在數(shù)千名小媮的記錄中搜索。
Petra trawled the aisles of the Europa supermarket. 珮特拉搜索了歐羅巴超市的各個(gè)通道。
2. V-T/V-I When fishermen trawl for fish, they pull a wide net behind their ship in order to catch fish. 用拖網(wǎng)捕 (魚); 拖網(wǎng)捕魚
They had seen him trawling and therefore knew that there were fish. 他們看見他正用拖網(wǎng)捕魚，因此他們知道那裡有魚。
She would walk on to the beach and watch the night fishermen trawl the shallow waters. 她會(huì)步行到海灘去看夜間工作的漁民在淺水中拖網(wǎng)捕魚。