- [intransitive, transitive]
to walk with an effort through something, especially water or mud 跋涉，涉，蹚（水或淤泥等） - (+ adv./prep.)
He waded into the water to push the boat out. 他蹚进水里把船推出来。 🔊🔊 Sometimes they had to wade waist-deep through mud. 有时他们得通过齐腰深的泥浆。 🔊🔊 The men waded ashore. 那些男人趟过水上了岸。 We waded across the stream. 我们趟过小溪。 - wade something
They waded the river at a shallow point. 他们在水浅处蹚过河。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- slowly
- ashore
- across
- …
- across
- in
- into
- …
- wade knee-deep, waist-deep, etc. in something
- (+ adv./prep.)
- (North American English) (British English paddle)[intransitive]
to walk or stand with no shoes or socks in shallow water in the sea, a lake, etc. 蹚水；赤足涉水
Word OriginOld English wadan ‘move onward’, also ‘penetrate’, from a Germanic word meaning ‘go (through)’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vadere ‘go’.