Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense trawls, present participle trawling, past tense, past participle trawled
1VERB (在大量相似物中)搜索,搜寻 If you trawl through a large number of similar things, you search through them looking for something that you want or something that is suitable for a particular purpose. (在大量相似物中)搜索,搜寻 [British]
A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves. [VERB + through]
一组警员正在翻查数以千计的小偷小摸者的犯罪记录。
Her private secretary has carefully trawled the West End for a suitable show. [VERB noun]