scouring

基本解釋

v. （徹底地）搜查；擦亮；擦洗；沖刷出；（家畜）患腹瀉；給……服強(qiáng)烈瀉藥；（尤指搜素追捕時(shí)）快速行走（scour 的現(xiàn)在分詞）
n. 擦洗；搜查；牲畜排便

Now the Java Sea had yielded up a shipload, many perfectly preserved—protected in the stoneware jars from the scouring action of sand on the seafloor.
如今，爪哇海交出了一批船貨。由于石器罐子的保護(hù)作用，里面的碗逃脫了海底沙的沖刷，許多都完整的保存下來(lái)了。
Eventually, they say, the task of scouring records for US citizens and then reporting them could run into billions of dollars and conflict with domestic privacy laws.
它們表示，搜索美籍客戶(hù)的記錄、然后將其上報(bào)的任務(wù)，最終可能造成數(shù)以十億美元計(jì)的成本，并與國(guó)內(nèi)隱私法律抵觸。
okread.net
Yet this is one of the more promiscuous dictionaries, highlighting as many different historical meanings and modern senses as it can by scouring the written corpus for different uses of a word.
然而這卻是本更加混淆雜亂的字典之一，它盡可能多地通過(guò)篩選語(yǔ)料庫(kù)找出同一個(gè)詞的不同用法，來(lái)突出許多歷史詞義和現(xiàn)代含義。

Scouring stores for a useful toy, the father became as frustrated as his son.
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Like most of us, she did thorough research, scouring the internet for insight and recommendations.
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They have claimed that they are scouring the documents for names of Afghan informants.
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If you scour something such as a place or a book, you make a thorough search of it to try to find what you are looking for.
If you scour something such as a sink, floor, or pan, you clean its surface by rubbing it hard with something rough.
the act of scouring

沖刷
A set of mathematical model was developed and the scouring was simulated. The calculated results accords with the experimental data very well.
計(jì)算結(jié)果表明，通過(guò)恰當(dāng)?shù)剡x取控制參數(shù)，用數(shù)學(xué)模型來(lái)模擬基巖的沖刷是可行的；摻氣與不摻氣時(shí)基巖沖刷結(jié)果的計(jì)算值與實(shí)驗(yàn)值符合很好，結(jié)果令人滿(mǎn)意。
機(jī)械工程
精練
Without scouring,the purpose of which is degumming,silk fiber can't be used in garments directly.
蠶絲要經(jīng)過(guò)精練加工后才能成為可服用的織物,精練的主要目的是脫除蠶絲中的絲膠組分。
煮練
Secondly, through the comparative trials about several kinds of scouring technology,the most optimum technology was given to solve the leak problem of linen fabric. Thetechnical process: padding in the alkaline scouring solution→open-width steaming→washing→drying.
2、通過(guò)幾種煮練工藝的分析，經(jīng)試驗(yàn)優(yōu)選出解決亞麻織物漏白的最優(yōu)工藝，其工藝流程為：浸軋煮練堿液→平幅汽蒸→水洗→烘干。
地球科學(xué)
刨蝕