rummage

• 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

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。

1. a jumble of things to be given away

2. a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion);

"he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis"

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.

She was rummaging around in her bag for her keys.

她在自己的包里翻来翻去找钥匙。

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I rummaged through the contents of the box until I found the book I wanted.

我把箱子都翻遍了才找到我要的书。

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Have a rummage around in the drawer and see if you can find a pen.

翻翻抽屉，看能不能找到一支钢笔。

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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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Marianne went to rummage in the refrigerator.

玛丽安娜在冰箱里翻了翻。

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...loads of pitiful rummage.

大量慈善捐赠品

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Or, is it a rumpus room strewn of rummage?

抑或是黑暗污秽凌乱不堪的房间 呢 ?

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She gave a good rummage around her basement but couldn't find her radio anywhere.

她在地下室翻箱倒柜但是找不到她的收音机.

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Every week, the Filt rummage through glass recycling bins to find containers.

每周Filt员工都会在收集玻璃废物的垃圾桶里寻找可以做蜡烛容器的原料.

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The firm, decided to have a rummage sale to clear out the collection of old stock.

该商行决定举行清仓大拍卖来推销掉旧的库存.

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I'll have a good rummage around and see what I can find.

我要好好翻找一下,看看能找到点什么.

辞典例句

To search laboriously by or as if by digging; rummage.

搜寻辛苦地挖掘或如挖掘般地寻找; 搜寻.

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Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes.

主, 房子看起来像翻找销售, 是的.

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Jo: To have a rummage. And drawer.

餐厅抽屉里到处找. 搜寻一下.

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Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale, yes.

主啊, 那房子就是个要清仓拍卖样儿, 是的.

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I had a rummage in [ through all my ] drawers.

我在抽屉里翻找 [ 搜遍全部抽屉 ].

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I had a good rummage in the library through the files.

我在图书馆那些档案中翻箱倒柜了一番.

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Finances are aided by rummage sales.

以义卖捐赠来补助经费.

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I had a rummage in drawers.

我在抽屉翻找.

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The old lady began to rummage in her pocket for her spectacles.

老太太开始在口袋里摸索,找她的眼镜.

辞典例句

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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Larry had to rummage through several cartons.

拉里不得不翻了好几个纸盒.

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He gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis.

他对顶楼好好搜寻了一番,但没有找到他的滑雪板.

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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。

柯林斯例句

Marianne went to rummage in the refrigerator.

玛丽安娜在冰箱里翻了翻。

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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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