dredge up

名词挖泥机

动词挖掘，疏浚

1. 忆起;想起
    If someone dredges up a piece of information they learned a long time ago, or if they dredge up a distant memory, they manage to remember it.

    e.g. ...an American trying to dredge up some French or German learned in high school...
           试图回想起一些中学时学的法语或德语的美国人
    e.g. The fragments of memory she dredges up do not fit together.
           她想起的那些支离破碎的片段连不上。

2. 翻出,重提(令人不快的往事)
    If someone dredges up a damaging or upsetting fact about your past, they remind you of it or tell other people about it.

    e.g. I wouldn't want to dredge up the past...
           我不想重提往事。
    e.g. It's the media who keep dredging it up.
           是媒体一直在翻旧账。

1. A boat has been dispatched to dredge up the waterway around the sinking spot, the worker said.

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