Trawl



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.拖网; v.用拖网捕鱼, 搜罗
• ［英］ n.拖网; v.用拖网捕鱼, 搜罗 ( to fish with a trawl)
• ［例］ As a result of a nationwide trawl, twenty actors were enlisted. ( 搜罗全国, 终于找到20名演员)

Webster Collegiate

I. verb

• Etymology: probably from obsolete Dutch tragelen
• Date: 1561
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to fish with a trawl
    • b. to make a search as if by trawling
  • 2. troll 2a
• transitive verb
  • to catch (fish) with a trawl

II. noun

• Date: 1759
• 1. a large conical net dragged along the sea bottom in gathering fish or other marine life
• 2. setline

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