scavenge
scavenge — 動詞
- scavengepresent simple I / you / we / they
- scavengeshe / she / it
- scavengedpast simple
- scavenging-ing form
1. To look through rubbish, waste, or unwanted items to find something that can sti
翻找廢棄物
在垃圾或廢棄物中尋找可用物品
To look through rubbish, waste, or unwanted items to find something that can still be used, eaten, or sold.
Yumi scavenged through the old furniture shop for spare parts to fix her bicycle.
Yumi 翻遍了那間舊家具行，想找零件來修理她的腳踏車。
scavenge + through + place + for + thing
During the war, families often scavenged the streets for anything they could burn as fuel.
戰爭期間，許多家庭常在街上翻找任何可以當作燃料的東西。
scavenge + place + for + thing — transitive use
Christopher scavenged in the recycling bins for cardboard boxes for his school project.
Christopher 在回收箱裡翻找紙箱，準備用來做學校的勞作作品。
After the festival, volunteers scavenged the field for reusable materials and recyclable bottles.
慶典結束後，志工們在場地上搜尋可重複使用的物品和可回收的瓶罐。
Jessica scavenged for discarded cardboard boxes behind the supermarket to use for her art project.
Jessica 在超市後方翻找被丟棄的紙箱，打算用來做她的美術作品。
文法句型
scavenge + through + place + for + thing
scavenge + place + for + thing
scavenge + for + thing
用法筆記
Subject is usually a person or group in need or looking to save resources. Object can be a place (the bins, the streets) or the thing being searched for (food, parts). Frequently used figuratively in computing contexts ('scavenge memory').
常見錯誤
2. (Of a wild animal) To regularly feed on dead creatures or human rubbish as a nat
食腐
（野生動物）以腐肉或廢棄食物為食
(Of a wild animal) To regularly feed on dead creatures or human rubbish as a natural source of nutrition.
Vultures scavenge the remains of animals that have been killed by larger predators.
禿鷹以大型掠食動物吃剩的獵物屍體為食。
scavenge + object — transitive with wild animals
Stray dogs often scavenge at night around the market for leftover food.
流浪狗經常在夜間到市場附近翻食剩菜。
scavenge + for — intransitive pattern with location
A female bear was seen scavenging through the campsite's rubbish bins early in the morning.
清晨時分，有人看到一頭母熊在營區的垃圾桶裡翻食。
Hyenas scavenged the carcass that the lion pride had abandoned on the open plain.
鬣狗吃掉了獅群遺棄在曠野上的動物屍體。
Raccoons regularly scavenge for scraps in suburban gardens near Taipei.
浣熊經常在台北近郊的民宅庭院裡翻食食物碎屑。
- forage
broader term for searching for food; 'forage' does not carry the same sense of eating dead matter
- feed on carrion
more precise technical term for eating dead flesh, but less common than 'scavenge'
文法句型
scavenge + food (transitive)
scavenge + on/off + food
scavenge + for + food
用法筆記
Subject is always an animal (or a person described as acting like an animal). The object can be the dead animal (carcass, remains) or the food source. Distinguish from Sense 1: Sense 1 describes a deliberate human search; Sense 2 describes instinctive feeding behaviour.