2020-05-06

[soraliu]

  scavenge
/ˈskavənj/

verb
    search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste.
        - "They had been in fear of their lives as they scavenged for food while the authorities operated a shoot-to-kill policy against looters."
    Synonyms: forage, rummage, search, hunt, look, root around/about, grub around/about

Synonyms
    verb
        - forage, rummage, search, hunt, look, root around/about, grub around/about
        - salvage
        - clean

Examples
    - Feral cats mostly scavenge and hunt rodents; that the real enemies of wild bird populations are habitat fragmentation and pesticide use.

    - Billy helped her scavenge dumps and junkyards for the motors and wheels and other detritus that would compose her giant vehicle.

    - In the Flood model, the observation of shark remains among dinosaurs would not be considered unusual, since one would expect that sharks would scavenge floating dinosaurs.

    - Another is that cats don't scavenge, so the only time that they could be baited is when they are ‘doing it tough, like right now‘.

    - Raptors, buzzards among them, swirled, checked and glided above Ivy Scar, then eased over the valley to hunt and scavenge the stone-walled fields.

    - Unlike the wolves the coyotes preferred to scavenge the dead carcasses left behind by others.

    - It's amazing what can be found if you scavenge around small wooded areas.

    - Let's go to my house, and see if we can scavenge anything.

    - They are surviving on scraps, trying to find anything they can scavenge from the dirt to eat or to sell.

    - They'd rather scavenge dead animals than try to bring down something that might fight back.

    - Their analysis also found that B. anthracis has an enhanced capacity to scavenge iron, which it may use to survive in its host.

    - Once having learnt to scavenge carcasses, the classic piranha feeding behaviour could have followed soon after.

    - Fish will scavenge for insects and plant life in the pond but will also benefit from an occasional feeding of fish food.

    - the feral cat preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor

    - Expeditions would scavenge the desolate landscape for precious supplies, such as fuel and water.

    - They are compounds that scavenge free radicals of oxygen, unstable molecules given off by the body's many metabolic actio
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    - The administration of superoxide dismutase to scavenge superoxide anions was found to promote the survival rate of transplanted skin flaps.

    - Most unclean of all are those animals who are fed on refuse scraps, human or animal excrement, or who scavenge dead animals.

    - the city dump where the squatters scavenge to survive

    - chlorine molecules can scavenge ozone at a very fast rate

    - Looters also made a comeback, making forays into a presidential palace to scavenge whatever was left behind from earlier bouts of looting.

    - A related species, the burrowing bettong, will scavenge sheep carcasses.

    - Our only backup unit has been scavenged for parts since our budget was slashed last year.

    - At the rubbish dump, adults and children scavenged for any items which might be recycled or sold.

    - So they're out scavenging metal from any place, from heaps of old vehicles.

    - The thiol group of s-nitrosothiol essentially protects nitric oxide from being scavenged by the binding site on heme.

    - The two tiny tattered figures were familiar sights on the streets below, begging for coins and scavenging the bins.

    - White looked at the town, sprawled at the Academy's feet, and saw that the buildings were constructed of scrap scavenged from the great wreck.

    - Fuel and tankers became so scarce in the spring of 1942 that oil was scavenged from the unsalvageable battleships still resting on the bottom of Battleship Row.

    - Thus they had to acquire their meat largely by scavenging the kills of other animals.

[soraliu]

[soraliu]

  scavenge
/ˈskavənj/

扫荡
(Sǎodàng)

Definitions of scavenge
[ English -> 简体中文 ]

verb
    瀹
        boil, cleanse, clean, boil up, pure, scavenge

scavenge
    扫荡, 扫

[soraliu]

  乘积
(Chéngjī)

product

Definitions of 乘积
[ 简体中文 -> English ]

noun
    product
        产品, 产物, 制品, 乘积, 积, 产量

乘积
    product

[soraliu]

  减法
(Jiǎnfǎ)

Subtraction

Definitions of 减法
[ 简体中文 -> English ]

noun
    substruction
        减法, 阯

减法
    Subtraction

[soraliu]

  external
/ikˈstərnl/

外部
(Wàibù)

Definitions of external
[ English -> 简体中文 ]

adjective
    外部
        external
    外
        outer, outside, external, foreign, outward, extrinsic
    对外
        foreign, external
    外界
        external
    外在
        external, extrinsic
    外来
        foreign, external
    外表
        external
    国外
        foreign, overseas, external, oversea
    以外
        outside, external, outer
    表面的
        surface, ostensible, obverse, exterior, outward, external

noun
    外面
        external, facing, superficies, outward appearance, semblance
    表面
        surface, face, appearance, exterior, external, facade
    表
        table, list, meter, watch, surface, external
    面
        surface, face, side, top, flour, external
    上面
        upside, superficies, external

external
    外部, 外, 外在的

[soraliu]

  parentheses

括弧
(Guāhú)

Definitions of parentheses
[ English -> 简体中文 ]

noun
    括号
        brackets, parentheses
    括弧
        parentheses
    刮弧
        parentheses

parentheses
    括弧, 括号

[soraliu]

  parentheses

noun
    a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by curved brackets, dashes, or commas.
        - "One instantly recognizes his modulated and finely tuned free verse line, with its meandering parentheses and doubled back hesitations."

Synonyms
    noun
        - digression, excursus, aside, divagation

See also
    parenthesis

[soraliu]

  parentheses

noun
    a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by curved brackets, dashes, or commas.
        - "One instantly recognizes his modulated and finely tuned free verse line, with its meandering parentheses and doubled back hesitations."

Synonyms
    noun
        - digression, excursus, aside, divagation

See also
    parenthesis

[soraliu]

  parenthesis
/pəˈrenTHəsis/

noun
    a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by curved brackets, dashes, or commas.
        - "One instantly recognizes his modulated and finely tuned free verse line, with its meandering parentheses and doubled back hesitations."

Synonyms
    noun
        - digression, excursus, aside, divagation

Examples
    - Was it an interlude, a parenthesis, a hiccup, an embarrassment, or a beginning?

    - Even if the subordinate clauses open up a parenthesis that seems to last for ever, they do close, eventually, in a completed thought.

    - the three months of coalition government were a lamentable political parenthesis

    - The second and third dashes are problematic in that they appear in the same extended sentence and suggest a parenthesis when in fact they function independently: they interrupt and separate rather than link.

    - As political correctness irons out the parenthesis of prejudice, there will always be a special, sour dispensation for Bismark's baby; hating the Hun is perhaps the only thing that truly emulsifies the rest of us.

    - in a challenging parenthesis, Wordsworth comments on the evil effects of contemporary developments

    - On some of the questions, I will describe the questioner in parentheses.

    - In online discussion groups, include the word ‘long’ in parentheses at the end of the subject line of your message or indicate at the top of the body of the message that yours will be a long response.

    - By the way, can I draw everyone's attention to my overuse of parentheses in the last paragraph?

    - Further references to this essay are included in parentheses in the text.

    - Candidates' membership in chapters may be longer than 10 years, but only dates 10 years back are included in parentheses following an activity.

    - Where the data was available, the actual wavelengths studied are included in parentheses so that readers may draw their own conclusions.

    - If you are printing text, you include the text between the parentheses and within double quotes.

    - And if you can't find these in Calgary, we've included the name of the company releasing each title in parentheses, along 
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with the director's name.

    - The gene markers included in parentheses were not mapped in our backcross; rather, approximate locations of these markers were deduced from other genetic maps.

    - I wonder what it says about messages with those smiley faces made from colons and parentheses?

    - The asterisk in parentheses indicates that an amino acid may or may not be present at that position.

    - The practice in writing and print of using a set of marks to regulate texts and clarify their meanings, principally by separating or linking words, phrases, and clauses, and by indicating parentheses and asides.

    - The asterisk in parentheses indicates a significant trend opposite to other groups.

    - The command-line interface is included in parentheses for those of you who still type commands.

    - A list is a sequence of syntactic tokens enclosed in a pair of parentheses.

    - Right below are the questions, along with the percentage of US respondents who answered the question correctly in parentheses.

    - The parentheses are in the original and mark controversial phrases not yet decided upon.

    - The parentheses in that sentence are meant to be tongue-in-cheek, and that's really the tone I was aiming for there: a straightforward description with a little bit of irony added.

    - One instantly recognizes his modulated and finely tuned free verse line, with its meandering parentheses and doubled back hesitations.

    - Players elected by members of the Baseball Writers Association to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot include the following with the year of their induction in parentheses.

    - In the typically anonymous world of cyberspace - where parenthesesand colons represent emotions and facial expressions - I'd met my namesake.

    - Similarly, if the sentence about snow were named with the numeral 88 inside a pair of parentheses, then would be true just in case it is snowing.

    - It's actually a pretty straightforward quiz, no questions about the minor uses of parentheses or diacritics or anything like that.