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 ‘appurtenances’). => 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.
双语例句
1. I wouldn't want to dredge up the past.
我不想重提往事。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He managed to dredge up a smile.
他勉强笑了笑.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. They have to dredge the canal so that ships can use it.
他们须疏浚运河河道轮船方可通航.
来自辞典例句
4. Ritter also explained how to dredge information from local newspaper.
里特尔还讲了如何从地方报纸上挖掘情报.
来自辞典例句
5. Why try to dredge up the sad facts of the past?
