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Meaning of 搜刮

Lookup via: Pinyin | Radicals
搜 sōu 刮 guā
to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry
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Synonym: 搜索 剥削 榨取
Example Sentences
1
看来该是时候出去吓吓人
,
搜刮搜刮他们的房子咯
。
It was time to go out and scare a few people and raid their houses.
2
他从被征服了的城市中搜刮来许多金子和大量财富
。
他在京城里积蓄的财富
,
比什么地方都多
。
He brought enormous wealth home from the conquered towns, and gradually accumulated in his residence riches which could nowhere be equalled.
3
谷歌的电脑搜刮所有文本网页
,
吮吸
,
分析
,
并研究人们实际上如何写作
。
Google' s computers scour the web, suck in all that text, analyze it and learn how people actually write.
4
在今天
,
孩子们到处搜刮复活蛋
,
并将这些蛋放到复活节篮子中
。
为什么呢
?
他们只是为了复活蛋的现代意义
:
复活蛋是由软糖或巧克力做的
。
Today, children hunt colored eggs and place them in Easter baskets along with the modern version of real Easter eggs -- those made of plastic or chocolate candy.
5
他觉得没有什么工作是真正清白的好比银行上班的人也只是从穷人身上搜刮钱财
。
No job is really morally innocent, he thought. People who work in banks take money from poor people.