trawl /trɔːl/ TEM4 ( trawling, trawled, trawls )

• 1. 

  V-T/V-I If you trawl through a large number of similar things, you search through them looking for something that you want or something that is suitable for a particular purpose. 搜索

  例：

  A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves.

  一队警察正在数千名小偷的记录中搜索。

  例：

  Petra trawled the aisles of the Europa supermarket.

  佩特拉搜索了欧罗巴超市的各个通道。

• 2. 

  V-T/V-I When fishermen trawl for fish, they pull a wide net behind their ship in order to catch fish. 用拖网捕 (鱼); 拖网捕鱼

  例：

  They had seen him trawling and therefore knew that there were fish.

  他们看见他正用拖网捕鱼，因此他们知道那里有鱼。

  例：

  She would walk on to the beach and watch the night fishermen trawl the shallow waters.

  她会步行到海滩去看夜间工作的渔民在浅水中拖网捕鱼。