• n. 食腐動物；清道夫；[助劑] 清除劑；拾荒者

來自中古英語 scawageour,倫敦的稅務官員，特指對外來商品收取稅費的官員，來自盎格魯 法語 scawage,稅收，稅費，來自 Proto-Germanic*skau,注視，注意，檢查，來自 PIE*skeue, 注視，注意，詞源同 show,古義看，檢查。因收取稅費的同時兼顧打掃街道衛生，引申詞義 拾荒者，撿破爛者，后原詞義逐漸消失，其引申詞義成為主要詞義。-enger,人，詞源同 messenger,passenger.

scavenger

scavenger: [15] A scavenger was originally a scavager – the extra n is the same as that intruded into messenger, passenger, etc. This was acquired from Anglo-Norman scawager, and it started life as a term for an official whose job was to collect taxes levied on foreign merchants. Etymologically it denoted ‘inspector’, for it was derived from the verb escauwer ‘inspect’, which was borrowed from Flemish scauwen ‘look at’, a relative of English show.

By the 16th century the scavenger had begun to come down in the world, first to a ‘street-cleaner’ and finally to ‘one who gathers or lives on what others have thrown away’. The verb scavenge was derived from it in the 17th century.
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scavenger (n.)

1540s, originally "person hired to remove refuse from streets," from Middle English scawageour (late 14c.), London official in charge of collecting tax on goods sold by foreign merchants, from Anglo-French scawager, from scawage "toll or duty on goods offered for sale in one's precinct" (c. 1400), from Old North French escauwage "inspection," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German scouwon, Old English sceawian "to look at, inspect;" see show (v.)).

It has come to be regarded as an agent noun in -er, but the verb is a late back-formation from the noun. With intrusive -n- (c. 1500) as in harbinger, passenger, messenger. Extended to animals 1590s. Scavenger hunt is attested from 1937.

1. He's just fit for a job as scavenger.

他只配當個清道夫.

來自辭典例句

2. He is not a scavenger nor just a moving appetite as some sharks are.

它不是食腐動物,也不像有些鯊魚那樣,只知道游來游去滿足食欲.

來自英漢文學 - 老人與海

3. Mulberry red pigment hence was a good kind of natural radical scavenger.

桑椹紅色素是一種很好的天然自由基清除劑.

來自互聯網

4. He be just fit for a job as scavenger.

他正好當個清道夫之職.

來自互聯網

5. Glutathione peroxidase ( GSH - Px ) acts as a free radical scavenger.

谷 胱 甘肽過氧化物酶是生物機體內的自由基清除劑.

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