trawl

柯林斯词典

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. 一隊警察正在數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. 用拖網捕 (魚); 拖網捕魚
They had seen him trawling and therefore knew that there were fish. 他們看見他正用拖網捕魚，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. 她會步行到海灘去看夜間工作的漁民在淺水中拖網捕魚。