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1- (of a person or animal) search widely for food or provisions（人, 动物）搜寻食物：
gulls are equipped by nature to forage for food.
海鸥生来会搜食。
1.1
- with obj. obtain (food or provisions)搜得（食物）：
a girl foraging grass for oxen.
为牛找草料的女孩。
1.2
- with obj. obtain food or provisions from (a place)从（某地）搜到食物。
1.3
- with obj. archaic supply (an animal or person) with food〈古〉给（动物, 人）提供食物。
1
- mass noun bulky food such as grass or hay for horses and cattle; fodder（马或牛的）草料, 饲料。
2
- in sing. a wide search over an area in order to obtain something, especially food or provisions搜寻（尤指食物）：
the nightly forage produces things which can be sold.
每晚的搜寻都能找到可换钱的东西。
派生词
forager
noun词源
Middle English: from Old French fourrage (noun), fourrager (verb), from fuerre 'straw', of Germanic origin and related to FODDER.