scour

• vi. 衝刷；擦；腹瀉
• vt. 擦亮，洗滌；衝洗，清除
• n. 擦，衝刷；洗滌劑；（畜類等的）腹瀉

來自中古荷蘭語 scuren,清洗，擦拭，來自拉丁語 excurare,清洗，使幹淨，字麵意思為照看， 處理，來自 ex-,向外，表強調，curare,看護，關心，詞源同 cure,curator.

可能來自古法語 escorre,跑出，衝出，來自拉丁語 excurrere,跑出，前衝，來自 ex-,向外，currere, 跑，詞源同 current,course,excursion.後可能受該詞另詞義影響，引申詞義搜查，翻找。

scour

scour: [13] The notion of ‘cleaning’ implicit in scour evolved from an earlier ‘take care of’. For the word goes back ultimately to Latin cūrāre (source of English cure), which originally meant ‘take care of’, and only in medieval times came to mean ‘clean’. Combination with the prefix ex- ‘out’ produced excūrāre ‘clean out’, which reached English via Old French escurer and Middle Dutch scūren. Scour ‘search thoroughly’ [14] (as in ‘scour the countryside’) is a different word, and may come from Old Norse skýra ‘rush in’.
=> cure

scour (v.1)

"cleanse by hard rubbing," c. 1200, from Middle Dutch scuren, schuren "to polish, to clean," and from Old French escurer, both from Late Latin excurare "clean off," literally "take good care of," from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + curare "care for, take care of" (see cure (v.)). Possibly originally a technical term among Flemish workmen in England. Related: Scoured; scouring. As a noun, 1610s, from the verb.

scour (v.2)

"move quickly in search of something," c. 1300, probably from Old Norse skyra "rush in," related to skur "storm, shower, shower of missiles" (see shower (n.)). Perhaps influenced by or blended with Old French escorre "to run out," from Latin excurrere (see excursion). Sense probably influenced by scour (v.1).

1. He decided to scour the sink.

他決定把水池擦幹淨。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Mother made me scour the family silver.

母親讓我擦洗家裏的銀器.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. Please scour rust spots from the knife.

請擦去刀上的鏽斑.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

4. Mercerizing wash waters can be used to prepare scour, chlorine bleach.

絲光衝洗水可用作配製洗滌液氯漂白液.

來自辭典例句

5. You can scour dirty pans by rubbing them with scouring powder.

用去汙粉可以把髒盤子擦淨.

來自辭典例句