muckrake

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rake for scraping up dung.
动词 v.
  1. To search for and expose corruption or scandal, especially as a form of investigative journalism. intransitive
    — To think that he cares about nothing save the possibility of being found out and made ridiculous! All his friends have been ‘muckraked,’ as he calls it, and he has sat aloft and smiled over their plight; he was the landed gentleman, the true aristrocrat, whom the worries of traders and money-changers didn’t concern.

词形变化

muckrakes plural muckrakes present,singular,third-person muckraking participle,present muckraked participle,past muckraked past

词源

词源 1
From muck + rake.
词源 2
From muck + rake.
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