Scouring

(noun.) moving over territory to search for something; 'scouring the entire area revealed nothing'.

录入:尼科尔

• He and Dobbin stumbled over their pails in the passages as they were scouring the decks of the Royal George. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I am myself a born and bred lady through it all, even though it comes to scouring a floor, or washing dishes. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• His ideas are not clean, Mr. Moore; they want scouring with soft soap and fuller's earth. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They are then finished by scouring and rubbing over with olive oil and turpentine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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