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- an implement consisting of a pole with a crossbar toothed like a comb at the end, or with several tines held together by a crosspiece, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel（长柄）耙, 搂耙, 草耙; 钉齿耙。
1.1
- a wheeled implement used for the same purposes耙机, 搂草机。
1.2
- a similar implement used for other purposes, e.g. by a croupier drawing in money at a gaming table耙状物, 齿叉形器具; （赌台上用的）钱耙。
1.3
- in sing. an act of raking耙; 耙集, 搂草; 耙平, 耙松：
giving the lawn a rake.
把草坪耙一下。
with obj.
1- collect, gather, or move with a rake or similar implement（用耙或类似器具）耙, 把…耙拢：
they started raking up hay.
他们开始把干草耙集起来。
1.1
- make (a stretch of ground) tidy or smooth with a rake（用耙）耙平（地面）; 把（地面）耙干净：
I sometimes rake over the allotment.
我有时用耙耙平园地。
1.2
- scratch or scrape (something, especially a person's flesh) with a long sweeping movement搔, 抓, 刮, 擦（某物, 尤指人的皮肤）：
her fingers raked Bill's face.
她的手指搔了比尔的面部。
1.3
- with obj. and adverbial of direction draw or drag (something) with a long sweeping movement拖, 拉：
she raked a comb through her hair.
她用梳子梳理头发。
1.4
- sweep (something) from end to end with gunfire, a look, or a beam of light（用火力）扫射; （用眼神）扫视; （用光束）横扫：
the road was raked with machine-gun fire.
这条路遭到机枪火力扫射。
1.5
- no obj., with adverbial of direction move across something with a long sweeping movement横扫, 扫过：
his icy gaze raked mercilessly over Lissa's slender figure.
他冰冷的眼神无情地扫过莉萨的纤弱身影。
1.6
- no obj., with adverbial search or rummage through something搜遍, 翻检：
he raked through his pockets and brought out a five-pound note.
他搜遍所有口袋, 找出一张五英镑钞票。
短语
rake and scrape
- black English be extremely thrifty; scrimp and save〈黑人英语〉节省; 吝啬; 一毛不拔。
rake over (old) coals （或rake over the ashes）
- chiefly Brit. revive the memory of a past event which is best forgotten〈主英〉重新忆起最易忘掉的往事。
(as) thin as a rake
- (of a person) very thin（人）瘦骨嶙峋, 骨瘦如柴。
派生词
raker
noun词源
Old English raca, racu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raak and German Rechen, from a base meaning 'heap up'; the verb is partly from Old Norse raka 'to scrape, shave'.
短语动词
rake something in
- informal make a lot of money, typically very easily〈非正式〉（尤指轻易）捞进大笔钱：
the shop's raking it in now.
该家商店现在大笔盈利。
rake something up/over
- revive the memory of an incident or period of time that is best forgotten重新忆起最易忘掉的事情（或时光）：
I have no desire to rake over the past.
我不想旧事重提。
- a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits（尤指时髦社会的）浪荡子, 淫逸浪子。
短语
a rake's progress
- a progressive deterioration, especially through self-indulgence（因自我放纵）逐渐堕落, 走下坡路。
- ORIGIN: from the title of a series of engravings by Hogarth (1735).
词源
mid 17th cent.: abbreviation of archaic rakehell in the same sense.
with obj.(常作be raked)
1- set (something, especially a stage or the floor of an auditorium) at a sloping angle确定（某物, 尤指舞台、礼堂地板的）倾斜度。
1.1
- no obj.(of a ship's mast or funnel) incline from the perpendicular towards the stern（船桅杆, 烟囱）成倾角。
1.2
- no obj.(of a ship's bow or stern) project at its upper part beyond the keel（艏, 艉）斜伸, 倾斜。
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- in sing. the angle at which a thing slopes斜度, 倾角。
2
- the angle of the edge or face of a cutting tool（切割工具的）前刀面, 前倾面。
词源
early 17th cent.: probably related to German ragen 'to project', of unknown ultimate origin; compare with Swedish raka.
- Brit. a number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together〈英〉（连接成列的铁路）客车（或货车）车厢。
词源
early 20th cent. (originally Scots and northern English)： from Old Norse rák 'stripe, streak', from an alteration of rek- 'to drive'. The word was in earlier use in the senses 'path, groove' and 'vein of ore'.