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rake

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Related topics: Gardening, Drink
rake1 /reɪk/ noun
1  garden_rake.jpg [countableC]DLG a gardening tool with a row of metal teeth at the end of a long handle, used for making soil level, gathering up dead leaves etc 〔長柄〕耙子
a garden rake
園藝耙
→4  See picture of 見圖 GARDENING →5 see picture at 見圖 garden1
2. [countableC] old-fashionedSYDFD a man who has many sexual relationships, drinks too much alcohol etc 酒色之徒，浪蕩子
3  [singular]CF the angle of a slope 坡度，傾角
the rake of the stage
舞台的坡度
Examples from the Corpus
rake• Did he think that would work if she got him gloves and a rake and shovel?• Unfortunately I sometimes think some one left a rake lying across a lot of them.• She went through the house door leading into the garage, seized a rake and plunged into the cold wind.• The hoes and rakes are still there, leaning against the wall, useless.• And on a car of this class the steering column ought to adjust for rake as well as reach.• The cinema was built on a hill, giving a natural rake to the auditorium seating.• Are they coming to mow the lawn or to liberate the hostages with rakes, clippers and blowers?
Related topics: Gardening, Household
rake2 verb
1  [intransitiveI, transitiveT]DLG to move a rake across a surface in order to make the soil level, gather dead leaves etc 〔用耙子〕耙，耙平
rake something over/up
She raked the soil over to loosen the weeds.
她用耙子翻土，把雜草弄鬆。
2  [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]LOOK FOR to search a place very carefully for something 仔細搜尋
rake through/around
I’ve been raking through my drawers looking for those tickets.
我一直在翻抽屜找那些票。
3  [transitiveT]MOVE something OR somebody to point something such as a gun, camera, or strong light, and keep moving it across an area 〔用槍、照相機、強光等〕掃射，橫掃 SYN sweep
The searchlight raked the open ground around the prison.
探照燈在監獄周圍的空地上來回掃射。
rake something with something
They raked the room with gunfire.
他們開槍掃射房間。
4. [transitiveT]DH to push a stick backwards and forwards in a fire in order to remove ashes 耙〔灰〕
5. rake over the past/old coals to keep talking about something that happened in the past that people would prefer you not to mention 重提〔别人不願提起的〕往事
6  rake your fingers (through something) DHBHto pull your fingers through something or across a surface 用手指攏（某物）
Ken raked his fingers through his hair.
肯用手指攏頭發。
Examples from the Corpus
rake your fingers (through something)• He raked his fingers through fur the color of weak tea, brown, red, golden tint of gaslight.• He raked his fingers through his hair and watched it spring back around his face in untidy tufts.• He raked his fingers through his hair, as if debating what to say next, and she followed the movement.
7 rake something ↔ in phrasal verbphr v informal BEARNto earn a lot of money without trying very hard 輕易賺得〔許多錢〕
Lou’s been raking in the dollars since he opened his business.
自從生意開張以來，洛烏就財源滾滾。
If someone opened a burger bar, they’d really rake it in.
如果誰開一家漢堡包店，一定會發大財的。
Examples from the Corpus
rake in• His new club was raking the money in.
rake it in• What a car! Jasper must be raking it in.• Athletes rake it in these days.
8 rake something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v informal 
a) REMIND/MAKE somebody REMEMBERto talk about something from the past that people would prefer you not to mention 重提，翻出〔别人不願提起的往事〕 SYN dredge up
It upsets Dad when that story is raked up again.
重提那件事父親會難過。
b) (also rake something ↔ together)GET to collect things or people together for a purpose, but with difficulty 勉強拼湊
They could only rake up $300.
他們只能湊到300美元。
Examples from the Corpus
rake up• Releasing Isabel's face, he stepped away from her, his hard eyes raking her up and down with casual appraisal.• If you see a lot of berries on the ground, rake them up to prevent further sprouting.
Examples from the Corpus
rake• He moved, and his shock of hair caught the sun as he raked a hand through it.• Connors got his fuel bladder raked and had to break away from the flight.• Around them women and men and children worked in the hayfield, gathering and loading, raking and stacking.• He raked his fingers through fur the color of weak tea, brown, red, golden tint of gaslight.• He raked his fingers through his hair, as if debating what to say next, and she followed the movement.• And it will really drive civilized people nuts if Phillips starts raking in extra dough by posing in commercials for sports products.• The lawn had been freshly cut, some grass raked into piles on the front walk.• Cracks in rendering should be raked out, cut back to sound material if necessary and then filled with new mortar.• They paid me $20 to rake the leaves in their front yard.• Guerrillas raked the room with gunfire.• The women raked us with their cold stares.
rake through/around• Every time we go out there and rake through a load, we turn over a piece of clothing and hope.• They rake through customer complaints for ideas for improving their products or service.• Dempster raked through his pockets and brought out a crumpled five-pound note.• Dolce e Gabbana were caught raking through Marie Antoinette's closet for their collection presented in Milan.• The coral sand will need raking through regularly to prevent it packing down solid and reducing the through-flow.• Her hands lifted to cradle his head, and hold him against her, her fingers raking through the crisp dark hair.• Hot sulphurous winds began to rake through the empty Delhi avenues.• She passed through the doorway, her eyes raking through the little knot of people clustered round it.
From Longman Business Dictionary
rakerake /reɪk/ verbFINANCE
→ rake something → in
→ rake something → off
Origin rake1
1. Old English racu
2. (1600-1700) Origin unknown
rake1 nounrake2 verb
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