wade

1. V-I If you wade through something that makes it difficult to walk, usually water or mud, you walk through it. 蹚 (過水、泥等)

Her mother came to find them, wading across a river to reach them. 她的母親蹚過河來找他們。

2. V-I To wade through a lot of documents or pieces of information means to spend a lot of time and effort reading them or dealing with them. 費時費力地啃讀

It has taken a long time to wade through the "incredible volume" of evidence. 已經(jīng)花費了很長時間來研讀這宗“卷帙浩瀚”的証據(jù)。