scrabble

英 [ˈskræbl]

美 [ˈskræbl]

v.  忙乱地找; 翻找; 乱抓; 乱动

过去式：scrabbled　现在分词：scrabbling　过去分词：scrabbled　复数：scrabbles　第三人称单数：scrabbles　

BNC.15837 / COCA.21530

短语动词

牛津词典

verb

• 忙乱地找；翻找；乱抓；乱动
  to try to find or to do sth in a hurry or with difficulty, often by moving your hands or feet about quickly, without much control
  1. She scrabbled around in her bag for her glasses.
     她在包里翻来翻去找眼镜。
  2. He was scrabbling for a foothold on the steep slope.
     他在陡坡上到处试探，想找个蹬脚的地方。
  3. a sound like rats scrabbling on the other side of the wall
     墙那面一种像老鼠乱抓的声音

柯林斯词典

• VERB 乱扒;乱摸;(尤指在看不见时)摸索着寻找
  If youscrabble forsomething, especially something that you cannot see, you move your hands or your feet about quickly and hurriedly in order to find it.
  1. He grabbed his jacket and scrabbled in his desk drawer for some loose change...
     他抓起夹克，然后在书桌的抽屉里乱翻了一些零钱。
  2. I hung there, scrabbling with my feet to find a foothold.
     我吊在那儿，两脚乱蹬着寻找落脚点。
  3. Scrabble aroundorscrabble aboutmeans the same asscrabble.
     scrabble around 或 scrabble about 同 scrabble
  4. Alberg scrabbled around for pen and paper...
     阿尔伯格四处翻找笔和纸。
  5. Gleb scrabbled about in the hay, pulled out a book and opened it.
     格莱布在干草中乱扒一通，翻出一本书来并把它打开。
• VERB 急于;苦求
  If you say that someoneis scrabbling todo something, you mean that they are having difficulty because they are in too much of a hurry, or because the task is almost impossible.
  1. The banks are now desperately scrabbling to recover their costs...
     那些银行正在拼命急于收回成本。
  2. The opportunity had gone. His mind scrabbled for alternatives.
     机会已经失去。他苦苦思索别的方案。
  3. Scrabble aroundmeans the same asscrabble.
     scrabble around 同 scrabble
  4. You get a six-month contract, and then you have to scrabble around for the next job.
     你签了一份 6 个月的合同，接着还得拼命找下一个工作。

英英释义

noun

• an aimless drawing
  Synonym:scribbledoodle

verb

• write down quickly without much attention to detail
  Synonym:scribble
• feel searchingly
  1. She groped for his keys in the dark
  Synonym:grope for

双语例句

• When the inventor of scrabble, Alfred butts, said to his wife one Sunday morning in1931," have a look at this when you've finished your breakfast* I think I've invented a new game", he still had a lot of perfecting to do.
  1931年一个星期日的早晨，拼字游戏发明人阿尔弗来德伯茨对他妻子说：“早饭后让你看样东西，我想我发明了一种新游戏。”当时，他的发明还远未成熟。
• Scrabble's missing a piece.
  拼字板少了一片。
• I never knew about my mother's first husband until I was playing Scrabble one day when I was 10 or 11 and opened her weather-beaten copy of Webster's Dictionary to look up a word.
  在我10岁还是11岁之前，我对我母亲的第一任丈夫毫无所知。直到有一天我在玩猜字游戏时，为了查找单词，我翻开了她那本饱经风霜的韦伯词典。
• More so than a lot of games, Scrabble seems to have universal appeal.
  拼字游戏比其它许多游戏更显出其广泛的号召力。
• I hung there, scrabbling with my feet to find a foothold.
  我吊在那儿，两脚乱蹬着寻找落脚点。
• A Scrabble board, player, tournament a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner.
  拼字游戏板、参加者、比赛.竞技者进行一系列比赛决定胜者的体育比赛。
• Scrabble clubs draw members from all backgrounds, although with a weighting to the educated.
  拼字游戏俱乐部在.注重吸收教育良好的成员外，对各种背景的人员也兼收并蓄。
• Esther just managed to scrabble to the top of the cliff.
  埃塞尔设法爬到了悬崖顶上。
• There everyone spends the evening playing Scrabble or watching TV.
  一个晚上大家玩玩牌，看看电视。
• Inventor Butts's favourite variation is double bag Scrabble, with the vowels and consonants in separate bags.
  发明人伯茨最喜欢的变化是双袋法，即把元音和辅音放在两个不同的口袋里。