- 1翻找、拱著找（帶一點「翻箱倒櫃」、把東西翻亂的感覺）
To rootle is to look for something by pushing other things out of the way — turning over papers, clothes, soil, or the stuff in a bag. It is a busy, slightly messy search, not a careful one. The picture comes from a pig: pigs rootle in the dirt with their noses, looking for food. People then used the same word for a person digging through a drawer. Though actually, this is mainly British, and it already sounds a little old-fashioned or playful; American English is more likely to say rummage or root around. You will meet it in stories more than in street talk.
組成root (the old verb meaning 'to dig', like a pig with its nose) + -le (a small ending that means the action keeps happening again and again).
同家族的字
- rootthe verb root, 'to dig or turn things over looking for something'
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
rootleverb/ˈɹuːtəl/
- 1
to dig into the ground, with the snout.
- Once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns, its massive buildings, and the chapel itself was marsh too, where the grasses waved and the swine rootled.
- Removing internal fences allowed the wild Exmoor ponies and Tamworth pigs he introduced to browse and rootle over large distances, their disruptions creating habitats for other animals and plants.
- 2
to search for something from a drawer, closet, etc.; to dig out.
- 'There's a tin of cocoa in my study somewhere,' Perowne shouted after him. 'Rootle round till you find it, and take it up.'
- Bathed and changed, she rootled out Lambie from the bottom of her wardrobe.'
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。