| 单词 | dredge |
| 释义 | dredge (dredʒ ) Word forms: dredges , dredging , dredged verb When people dredge a harbour, river, or other area of water, they remove mud and unwanted material from the bottom with a special machine in order to make it deeper or to look for something. Police have spent weeks dredging the lake but have not found his body. [VERB noun] Phrasal verbs: dredge up 1. phrasal verb If someone dredges up a piece of information they learned a long time ago, or if they dredge up a distant memory, they manage to remember it. ...an American trying to dredge up some French or German learned in high school. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The fragments of memory she dredges up do not fit together. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 2. phrasal verb If someone dredges up a damaging or upsetting fact about your past, they remind you of it or tell other people about it. I wouldn't want to dredge up the past. [VERB PARTICLE noun] It's the media who keep dredging it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Collocations: dredge a lake Increasing thickness of organic sediments resulted in the necessity to dredge the lake. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first large-scale operation was to dredge the lakes and other water features. 320,000 tonnes of silt had to be removed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first year was spent dredging a lake fed by a creek and natural springs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Since the early 1960s, many calls were made for dredging the lake and restoring its recreational potential, but city leaders were either unwilling or unable to fund the expensive proposition. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Considerable work was carried out to dredge the river to provide much wider navigation channels. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Locals blame the decision to stop dredging the rivers for the flooding. Times, Sunday Times The plan to ship the coal downstream was scuppered by difficulties in dredging the river and environmental concerns from the government. Times, Sunday Times The 28-ton rig had been dredging the river when it fell in at 9.40am. The Sun She asked contractors to search after hearing they were dredging the river bed a year later. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 清淤 Japanese: 浚渫する |
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