scour是什么意思

双语用例

• I learned about their back-breaking work scouring the countryside for wood to warm the water and, finally, how impossible it was to find clean water.

• By the middle of 1965 stocks were very low and the cement makers were scouring the world for imports at high prices.

• Two of the legs began to wobble, and that again caused more scouring of the sand until eventually, having dislodged 6 ft.

• The world is increasingly being scoured for large deposits of good quality ore which are near the seaboard.

• I imagine it is those in which soap has to be used in scouring wool yarn.

• Imports have been encouraged and the world has been scoured for goods.

• Our leading stores are scouring the world for high quality textiles because they are not avail able at home.

• If you scoured the whole county you would not have got a better zoologist and geologist than those two men.