单词 | rake |
释义 | rake (reɪk ) Word forms: rakes , raking , raked 1. countable noun A rake is a garden tool consisting of a row of metal or wooden teeth attached to a long handle. You can use a rake to make the earth smooth and level before you put plants in, or to gather leaves together. 2. verb If you rake a surface, you move a rake across it in order to make it smooth and level. Rake the soil, press the seed into it, then cover it lightly. [VERB noun] The beach is raked and cleaned daily. [VERB noun] Synonyms: scrape, level, smooth, break up 3. verb If you rake leaves or ashes, you move them somewhere using a rake or a similar tool. I watched the men rake leaves into heaps. [VERB noun adverb/preposition] She raked out the ashes from the boiler. [VERB preposition] Synonyms: gather, collect, scrape together, scrape up 4. verb If someone rakes an area with gunfire or with light, they cover it thoroughly by moving the gun or the light across from one side of the area to another. Planes dropped bombs and raked the beach with machine gun fire. [VERB noun with noun] The caravan was raked with bullets. [VERB noun with noun] The headlights raked across a painted sign. [VERB preposition] Synonyms: strafe, pepper, enfilade 5. verb If branches or someone's finger nails rake your skin, they scrape across it. [literary] Ragged fingernails raked her skin. [VERB noun] He found the man's cheeks and raked them with his nails. [VERB noun with noun] Synonyms: graze, scratch, scrape, lacerate 6. verb If you rake through a pile of objects or rubbish, you search through it thoroughly with your hands. Many can survive only by raking through dustbins. [VERB through noun] Synonyms: search, hunt, examine, scan 7. countable noun If you call a man a rake, you mean that he is rather immoral, for example because he gambles, drinks, or has many sexual relationships. [old-fashioned, disapproval] Synonyms: libertine, playboy, swinger [slang], profligate Phrasal verbs: rake in phrasal verb If you say that someone is raking in money, you mean that they are making a lot of money very easily, more easily than you think they should. [informal] The privatisation allowed companies to rake in huge profits. [VERB PARTICLE noun] rake over phrasal verb If you say that someone is raking over something that has been said, done, or written in the past, you mean that they are examining and discussing it in detail, in a way that you do not think is very pleasant. Nobody wanted to rake over his past history. [VERB PARTICLE noun] rake up phrasal verb If someone is raking up something unpleasant or embarrassing that happened in the past, they are talking about it when you would prefer them not to mention it. Raking up the past won't help anyone. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Image of rake © ElephantCastle, Shutterstock Idioms: rake over the coals [mainly British] to talk about something that happened in the past which you think should now be forgotten or ignored Let us not waste time raking over the coals when there is hard work to be done. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers thin as a rake extremely thin I'd always been as thin as a rake but in London my weight went up to more than 12 stone. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Translations: Chinese: 耙子, 耙平 Japanese: 熊手, 熊手でかく |
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