rummage

• vt. 檢查；搜出；仔細搜查；翻找出
• n. 翻找；檢查；查出的物件；零星雜物
• vi. 翻找；仔細搜查

rum-,屋子，室，詞源同 room,-age,名詞後綴。原義為檢查船艙堆放貨物是否捆綁牢固，後引 申詞義亂翻，搜尋。

rummage

rummage: [16] Rummage is etymologically ‘roomage’. It originally denoted the ‘stowage of cargo in a ship’s hold’. It came from Anglo- Norman *rumage, a reduced form of Old French arrumage. This was derived from the verb arrumer ‘stow in a hold’, which itself was based on run ‘ship’s hold’. And this in turn was borrowed from Middle Dutch ruim ‘space’, a relative of English room. The verb rummage, derived from the noun, was also used for ‘search a ship’s hold’, which is where the modern notion of ‘rummaging around’ comes from.
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rummage (v.)

1540s, "arrange (cargo) in a ship," from rummage (n.), 1520s, "act of arranging cargo in a ship," a shortening of Middle French arrumage "arrangement of cargo," from arrumer "to stow goods in the hold of a ship," from a- "to" + rumer, probably from Germanic (compare Old Norse rum "compartment in a ship," Old High German rum "space," Old English rum; see room (n.)). Or else from English room (n.) + -age.

Meaning "to search closely (the hold of a ship), especially by moving things about" first recorded 1610s. Related: Rummaged; rummaging. Rummage sale (1803) originally was a sale at docks of unclaimed goods.

1. They rummage through piles of second-hand clothes for something that fits.

他們在一堆堆的二手衣服裏翻找著合身的衣服。

來自柯林斯例句

2. A brief rummage will provide several pairs of gloves.

稍微翻翻，就能找到幾雙手套。

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3. Marianne went to rummage in the refrigerator.

瑪麗安娜在冰箱裏翻了翻。

來自柯林斯例句

4. He had a good rummage inside the sofa.

他把沙發內部徹底搜尋了一翻.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. Mullins began to rummage among the chaotic mess of papers on his desk.

馬林斯開始在桌子上一堆亂七八糟的文件裏翻來翻去。

來自柯林斯例句