dredge: English has two distinct words dredge, neither with a particularly well-documented past. Dredge ‘clear mud, silt, etc from waterway’ [16] may be related in some way to the 15thcentury Scottish term dreg-boat, and similarities have been pointed out with Middle Dutch dregghe ‘drag-net’, although if the two are connected, it is not clear who borrowed from whom.
It has also been suggested that it is related ultimately to drag. Dredge ‘sprinkle with sugar, flour, etc’ [16] is a verbal use based on a now obsolete noun dredge, earlier dradge, which meant ‘sweet’. This was borrowed from Old French dragie (its modern French descendant gave English dragée [19]), which may be connected in some way to Latin tragēmata and Greek tragémata ‘spices, condiments’ (these Latin and Greek terms, incidentally, may play some part in the obscure history of English tracklements ‘condiments to accompany meat’ [20], which the English food writer Dorothy Hartley claimed to have ‘invented’ on the basis of an earlier – but unrecorded – dialect word meaning more generally ‘a(chǎn)ppurtenances’). => dragée
dredge (n.)
late 15c., in Scottish dreg-boat "boat for dredging," perhaps ultimately from root of drag (possibly via Middle Dutch dregghe "drag-net"). The verb is attested from c. 1500 in Scottish. Related: Dredged; dredging.
雙語例句
1. I wouldn't want to dredge up the past.
我不想重提往事。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He managed to dredge up a smile.
他勉強(qiáng)笑了笑.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. They have to dredge the canal so that ships can use it.
他們須疏浚運(yùn)河河道輪船方可通航.
來自辭典例句
4. Ritter also explained how to dredge information from local newspaper.
里特爾還講了如何從地方報(bào)紙上挖掘情報(bào).
來自辭典例句
5. Why try to dredge up the sad facts of the past?