rummage

英['rʌmɪdʒ] 美['rʌmɪdʒ]
  • vt. 检查;搜出;仔细搜查;翻找出
  • n. 翻找;检查;查出的物件;零星杂物
  • vi. 翻找;仔细搜查

词态变化


复数: rummages;第三人称单数: rummages;过去式: rummaged;过去分词: rummaged;现在分词: rummaging;

助记提示


1. room => rummage.
2. rum (Old English form of room) + 双写m加-age.
3. Rummage is etymologically 'roomage'. It originally denoted the 'stowage of cargo in a ship's hold'.
4. => 'search a ship's hold, especially by moving things about.
5. rumm(=room)房间→把房间弄了个底朝天→rummage翻箱倒柜的寻找,检查,零星杂物。

中文词源


rummage 乱翻,搜寻

rum-,屋子,室,词源同 room,-age,名词后缀。原义为检查船舱堆放货物是否捆绑牢固,后引 申词义乱翻,搜寻。

英文词源


rummage
rummage: [16] Rummage is etymologically ‘roomage’. It originally denoted the ‘stowage of cargo in a ship’s hold’. It came from Anglo- Norman *rumage, a reduced form of Old French arrumage. This was derived from the verb arrumer ‘stow in a hold’, which itself was based on run ‘ship’s hold’. And this in turn was borrowed from Middle Dutch ruim ‘space’, a relative of English room. The verb rummage, derived from the noun, was also used for ‘search a ship’s hold’, which is where the modern notion of ‘rummaging around’ comes from.
=> room
rummage (v.)
1540s, "arrange (cargo) in a ship," from rummage (n.), 1520s, "act of arranging cargo in a ship," a shortening of Middle French arrumage "arrangement of cargo," from arrumer "to stow goods in the hold of a ship," from a- "to" + rumer, probably from Germanic (compare Old Norse rum "compartment in a ship," Old High German rum "space," Old English rum; see room (n.)). Or else from English room (n.) + -age.

Meaning "to search closely (the hold of a ship), especially by moving things about" first recorded 1610s. Related: Rummaged; rummaging. Rummage sale (1803) originally was a sale at docks of unclaimed goods.

双语例句


1. They rummage through piles of second-hand clothes for something that fits.
他们在一堆堆的二手衣服里翻找着合身的衣服。

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2. A brief rummage will provide several pairs of gloves.
稍微翻翻,就能找到几双手套。

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3. Marianne went to rummage in the refrigerator.
玛丽安娜在冰箱里翻了翻。

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4. He had a good rummage inside the sofa.
他把沙发内部彻底搜寻了一翻.

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5. Mullins began to rummage among the chaotic mess of papers on his desk.
马林斯开始在桌子上一堆乱七八糟的文件里翻来翻去。

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