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●ˌroot sb/sth ˈout1. to find the person or thing that is causing a problem and remove or get rid of them/it 肃清；铲除；根除◆The government has promised to root out police corruption.
政府承诺要杜绝警务人员腐败。◆The troublemakers seem to have been rooted out.
惹是生非的人似乎都已被揪出来了。OBJ corruption2. (informal) to find sb/sth when it is not easy or it takes a long time 终于发现（或找到）◆They eventually rooted out two witnesses.
他们最终找到了两名目击者。◆I’ve got some instructions for the camera somewhere—I’ll see if I can root them out.
我把照相机的使用说明不知道放在什么地方了——我来看看能不能找出来。◆I’ll root out the photo for you.
我来给你找出这张照片。SYN dig sth out, hunt sth down/out[v + adv + n] [v + pron + adv] [v + n + adv] (less frequent) |