词汇 | scavenge |
释义 | scavenge verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/ us /ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/ to look for or get food or other objects in other people's rubbish: (从废弃物中)觅食;捡破烂 The flood has left people and animals desperately scavenging for food.因遭受水灾,村民和牲畜四处寻觅食物。 We managed to scavenge a lot of furniture from the dump.我们从当地的垃圾堆里捡到了许多家具。 If a wild animal scavenges, it feeds on the flesh of dead decaying animals.(野生动物)以腐肉为食 Searching beachcomb beachcomber beachcombing body search bounty hunter comb hunt someone/something down hunter hunting ground keep your/an eye out for someone/somethingidiom leave no stone unturnedidiom lookout needle scout scratch around for something scrounge around search seek someone/something out seeker troll You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Animal (non-human) behaviour scavenge | American Dictionaryscavenge verb[ I/T ] us/ˈskæv·əndʒ/ to search for and collect unwanted food or objects, or of animals or birds to feed on decaying flesh: [ T ]We scavenged a table and chairs someone had thrown out. [ I ]The crows scavenged on the dead carcass. Examples of scavengescavenge Protection by free oxygen radical scavenging enzymes against glucoseinduced embryonic malformations in vitro. Detection of scavenged material in the guts of predators using monoclonal antibodies: a significant source of error in measurement of predation? The mechanism of scavenging of water-borne bacteria by a rising bubble. Since the subcontracting of work (particularly of scavenging) was common, however, salary data may well underestimate the sums spent on the labours of sanitary personnel. Many relevant articles and case discussions can be found in journals or scavenged from textbooks. Potential errors caused by scavenging binding between antibodies and antigen. The results suggest that significant errors may be caused by scavenging leading to inaccurate interpretation of predation rates in the field. Inmates scavenged whatever they could get, and the new supplies were often too rich. Intensive broiler management systems tend to deprive birds of free access to fresh pastures and succulent leguminous plants that are readily available to scavenging chicken around homesteads and villages. Therefore, econometric analysis cannot be performed in order to obtain either production functions for scavenging activity or marginal benefit (damage) functions from generation and disposal of solid waste. Such 'code scavenging' approaches solve the problem of possibly deleterious interactions across language descriptions at the cost of restricting multilinguality to the initial stage of resource development. During drying there was no evidence for the accumulation of a stable free radical, increased lipid peroxidation or decline in free radical scavenging enzymes in either species. Thus, although these experiments have shown that scavenging could potentially confound attempts to measure predation, many other dynamic factors must operate to influence scavenging rates in the field. Our tips used to be scavenged by totters, who did quite a bit of constructive recycling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They told us that they scavenged among potato peelings and such like in order to keep alive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of scavenge These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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