词汇 | rake over |
释义 | Phr V rake over rakes, raking, raked rake over sth or rake sth over informal to talk or think about something unpleasant again and againI don't want to rake over all the old arguments with you.If she keeps raking over the past she'll remain very bitter. rake over sth if you rake over something unpleasant that happened in the past, you talk or think about it again and again, when it would be better to forget it: "There's no point in raking over the past," my mother always said, but I wanted to know what had happened. rake overTo conduct a thorough examination, analysis, or investigation of something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "rake" and "over." I spent all night raking the details of last night's incident over in my mind. The company raked over all the applicants to find the right person for the job. Investigators have been raking over the debris from the plane crash, looking for hints as to what might have caused the accident. rake overv. To revisit or reexamine something in detail, especially something that is unpleasant: I don't want to rake over past arguments. They insisted on raking the story over many times. |
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