英语释义

• the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

• moving over territory to search for something;

  "scouring the entire area revealed nothing"

片语

scouring yield[纺]

scouring pad百洁布；擦洗用的钢丝绒

seabed scouring海床沖刷

wool scouring洗毛

acid scouring酸精炼

Scouring pads百洁布；擦洗用的钢丝绒

scouring sluice[水利] 沖沙闸

scouring water洗涤水，污水

scouring abrasion沖擦

scouring agent[纺] 精练剂；洗涤剂

scouring waste[纺]

英汉例句

• astronomers have been scouring the galaxy for decades for alien-produced radio signals -- and more recently for non-naturally occurring light pulses, as well -- to no avail.

  几十年来，天文学家一直在探寻来自外星人发出的无线电信号，最近还在寻觅非自然发生的光脉沖，但却都一无所获。

• learning first-hand of the soaring demand for waste paper that could be recycled into packaging material, she opened a business in hong kong in 1985, scouring dumps for raw material.

  她直接地了解到市场上对废纸重新回收制成包装材料的需求高涨，遂于1985年在香港开办了一家企业，从垃圾场中搜寻原材料。

• companies are scouring the world for new ideas (procter and gamble, for example, uses 「crowdsourcing」 to collect ideas from the general public).

  各种公司都在满世界寻找创意（如procterandgamble公司就利用「众包」技术来从公众中搜集点子）。

• now the java sea had yielded up a shipload, many perfectly preserved—protected in the stoneware jars from the scouring action of sand on the seafloor.

  如今，爪哇海交出了一批船货。 由于石器罐子的保护作用，里面的碗逃脱了海底沙的沖刷，许多都完整的保存下来了。

• mix it with borax to make a great scouring powder.

  和硼砂混合可以做成很好的洗涤粉。

• 「cleanliness is a good thing,」 said she, scouring the vessel with snakes, which she had tied together in a large knot; then she pricked herself in the breast, and let the black blood drop into it.

  「清洁是一件好事，」她说；于是她用几条蛇打成一个结，用它来洗擦这罐子。然后她把自己的胸口抓破，让她的黑血滴到罐子里去。

• in 2007, hackers will be scouring social networking sites such as myspace to gather information for more focused attacks on people「s computers.

  2007年，骇客们将扫蕩社区联系网路，例如共用空间，从中蒐集个人资料以便确定攻击目标。

• police and volunteers have been scouring the area around barrie, a small lakeside city about a one-hour drive from toronto, but so far have been unable to find the boy.

  警方和志愿者正搜索巴里市附近的区域，但没有找到这个男孩。巴里市距离多伦多有一个小时的车程，是一个小型湖滨城市。

• they found themselves spending 20 hours a day scouring websites for fun.

  他们发现自己每天要花20小时网上沖浪，只为寻找乐趣。

• rescue teams from brazil and france have been scouring a remote area of the atlantic since the air france flight carrying 228 people disappeared as it travelled between rio de janeiro and paris.

  自从法航一架载有228名乘客的航班飞机在从里约热内卢飞往巴黎的途中失蹤以来，巴西和法国的救援队已在大西洋的一个偏远地区展开全面搜寻。

• in leuven, belgium, scientists are scouring the world for banana samples and preserving their shoots in liquid nitrogen before they become extinct.

  在比利时的鲁汶，科学家正在搜集世界上的香蕉样本并将香蕉芽保存在液体氮中，以防其灭绝。

• the tin lining is cleaned with steel wool and scouring powder, but do not expect it ever to glitter brightly again once you have used the pot for cooking.

  可以用钢丝球和去污粉来清理内壁的锡层，但只要拿这口锅烧过菜，那就别指望还能把它洗的像新锅那么亮。

• this will prevent that frantic last-minute scouring of the house as you look for lost items.

  当你寻找丢失的东西时，这会防止你疯狂的在房间里寻找。

• eventually, they say, the task of scouring records for us citizens and then reporting them could run into billions of dollars and conflict with domestic privacy laws.

  它们表示，搜索美籍客户的记录、然后将其上报的任务，最终可能造成数以十亿美元计的成本，并与国内隐私法律抵触。

• now that a new asian elite can pay the earth for it, a new international poaching mafia is scouring the planet to satisfy that demand.

  如今，亚洲新贵们完全有能力进行这项买卖，因此，为了满足他们的需求，国际盗猎团伙正在洗劫整个世界。

• the studios are known for the ferocity with which they guard the works, scouring the world for abuses of copyright from hergé’s old offices on a smart shopping avenue.

  这个工作室以其竭尽全力保护作品的着作权而知名，不断搜寻世界各地对来自位于时髦购物街上的埃尔热办公室的侵权行为。

• then i begin scouring the internet for actual jobs.

  接着我上网去找一些更实际的工作。

• yet this is one of the more promiscuous dictionaries, highlighting as many different historical meanings and modern senses as it can by scouring the written corpus for different uses of a word.

  然而这却是本更加混淆杂乱的字典之一，它尽可能多地通过筛选语料库找出同一个词的不同用法，来突出许多历史词义和现代含义。

• french search teams scouring the atlantic have so far found no wreckage and are urging 「extreme prudence」 about possible plane wreckage retrieved so far, france」s transport minister said yesterday.

  法国交通大臣昨天称，法国搜救小组正在搜寻大西洋，目前未发现飞机残骸，并且力促仔细寻找可能的飞机残骸。

• as for tidal power, developers in the promising cook inlet must contend with glacial silt scouring turbines and partial freezing of the water in wintertime, says mr lockard.

  在潮汐能开发方面，洛克德称，库克湾的开发商们必须要应对冰川中的泥沙对涡轮机的刮蹭，以及严冬时期海水的微冻。

• prosecution and defense lawyers are scouring the site for personal details about members of the jury pool that could signal which side they might sympathize with during a trial.

  检控官及辩方律师在网站上搜寻陪审团候选人的个人信息，以便发现蛛丝马迹，说明这些人在审判中可能同情哪一方。

• some conventional processes such as scouring wool, tanning leather and bleaching, dyeing and printing fabrics use large amounts of water, energy or toxic chemicals, and emit effluents.

  一些传统工艺，比如洗毛、鞣革、漂白、染色、印花面料等，要使用大量的水、能源或有毒化学品，并且其排放污水的数量也是惊人的。

• the second model involved scouring eu treaties for policy areas in which britain has an opt-out or veto and methodically listing those which should be changed only by popular vote.

  第二种方案的策略为：将欧盟条约限制在英国有权退出和否决的政治领域，另外这份方案还有条不紊地列出了必须诉诸公投的事项。