dredge

英 [dred?] 美[dr?d?]

TEM8IELTS低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?dredges;過去式:?dredged;過去分詞:?dredged;現(xiàn)在分詞:?dredging;

dredge “掘機(jī)”→挖掘機(jī)

dredge 疏通

來自drag, 拉，拼寫受-dge影響，見bridge, judge, knowledge. 引申義拉沙，疏通，疏浚。

dredge: dredge: English has two distinct words dredge, neither with a particularly well-documented past. Dredge ‘clear mud, silt, etc from waterway’ [16] may be related in some way to the 15thcentury Scottish term dreg-boat, and similarities have been pointed out with Middle Dutch dregghe ‘drag-net’, although if the two are connected, it is not clear who borrowed from whom.

It has also been suggested that it is related ultimately to drag. Dredge ‘sprinkle with sugar, flour, etc’ [16] is a verbal use based on a now obsolete noun dredge, earlier dradge, which meant ‘sweet’. This was borrowed from Old French dragie (its modern French descendant gave English dragée [19]), which may be connected in some way to Latin tragēmata and Greek tragémata ‘spices, condiments’ (these Latin and Greek terms, incidentally, may play some part in the obscure history of English tracklements ‘condiments to accompany meat’ [20], which the English food writer Dorothy Hartley claimed to have ‘invented’ on the basis of an earlier – but unrecorded – dialect word meaning more generally ‘a(chǎn)ppurtenances’).
=> dragée
dredge (n.): late 15c., in Scottish dreg-boat "boat for dredging," perhaps ultimately from root of drag (possibly via Middle Dutch dregghe "drag-net"). The verb is attested from c. 1500 in Scottish. Related: Dredged; dredging.

3. They have to dredge the canal so that ships can use it.: 他們須疏浚運(yùn)河河道輪船方可通航.

4. Ritter also explained how to dredge information from local newspaper.: 里特爾還講了如何從地方報(bào)紙上挖掘情報(bào).