Rummage

(noun.) a jumble of things to be given away.

(verb.) search haphazardly; 'We rummaged through the drawers'.

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• Among them odd heaps of old papers, this gentleman, when he comes into the property, naturally begins to rummage, don't you see? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Being a prudent man and accustomed to take care of your own affairs, you begin to rummage among the papers as you have come into; don't you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Jo liked this, and after an energetic rummage from garret to cellar, subsided on the sofa to nurse her cold with arsenicum and books. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• To rummage, repeated Mr. Bucket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The obedient figure began to rummage in its pockets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Suddenly the Rector stopped, and began to rummage in the pockets of his long black coat. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The oftener you make them rummage their own minds for a reason, the more manageable you will find them in all the relations of life. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He rummaged in his coat pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted paper, he laid it out upon the table. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• She had not rummaged her drawers for a month past, and the impulse to perform that operation was now become resistless. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But he did not write the letter that day, for as he rummaged out his best paper, he came across something which changed his purpose. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Did you hear him say, you cur, that he was going to have the Mounds cleared off, when no doubt the whole place will be rummaged? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Among these he rummaged and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until we were past Reading. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The moment I looked at my table, I was aware that someone had rummaged among my papers. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Selden was rummaging in a cupboard for the cake. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• To begin at the beginning, Mrs. Kirke called to me one day as I passed Mr. Bhaer's room where she was rummaging. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Caroline, who, mounted on a chair, had been rummaging the bookcase, returned with a book. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber-rooms was packed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I suppose that's what you are rummaging after among my things. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Meantime Mark, who for some minutes had been rummaging amongst a pile of books on a side-table, took the word. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The seamen at their landing observed my canoe, and rummaging it all over, easily conjectured that the owner could not be far off. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.

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