rummaging v. 搜查;到处翻寻(rummage的ing形式)
- By rummaging about among the pile of old clothes, I found the old coat in which I had left the key.
我在那堆旧衣服中翻来翻去,找到了我将钥匙放在里面的那件外套。 - You would be horrified (and infuriated) that someone would be rummaging through your messages, even if his or her eyes were supposed to be looking only at time-stamp.
有人会检查您的邮件信息,甚至仅仅是用眼睛看一下时间标签也会让您感觉非常的担心。 - Zhikuan takes charge like an adult. Rummaging through the pile of flatten cardboard and pieces of paper he teaches his sister, who is one-year younger the concept of recycling.
志宽做起事情来像个小大人,整理压扁的厚纸板以及纸张,教导著小他一岁的妹妹环保的意义。
Rummage \Rum"mage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rummaged}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Rummaging}.]
1. (Naut.) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move
about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close
stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written
{roomage}, and {romage}. [Obs.]
They might bring away a great deal more than they
do, if they would take pain in the romaging.
--Hakluyt.
2. To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every
corner, and turning over or removing goods or other
things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over
leaf after leaf.
He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys,
and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
--Howell.
What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek
dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account! --M.
Arnold.