fossicking

例句:

• Most were fossicking in the creeks and gullies and the old workings.
  来自H. P. Tritton
• He spent ages fossicking through the documents.
  他花了老半天时间在那些文件中搜寻。
  
• Fossicking for gold involves sifting through amounts of dirt for a few grammes of precious metal.
  淘金的过程,就是从大量泥土中过滤出区区几克贵金属.
  
• The Joys were seen...fossicking out at the tip for their neighbours' rejected furniture.
  来自P. Carey
• An Arab fossicking among potsherds on a low mound, held up a verdigrised copper coin.
  来自C. Barrett