fossick搜寻

【使用地区】：澳大利亚

【释义】：

At first this word meant only to search for gold by reworking waste piles called washings．Then it came to mean to rummage or to search around for anything，as in“I was fossicking among some papers and found an old letter from her．”Chiefly Australian，this word of unknown origin has some currency in England and the United States．

起先此词只指在废弃堆中重新寻找金子，被称为washings(洗矿)。后来它指“翻找，搜寻”，如：“我在文件中寻找，找到了她以前写来的一封信”。该词主要在澳大利亚使用，出处不详，在英国和美国也有使用。