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Scuttle Steps Running Scuttling Skʌtl N.疾走 Robbers Grasped

Front scuttle
Pron ['skʌtl]
Back 【scuttle】
n.疾走
The robbers grasped the peril of their position and scuttled away.
抢劫者知道他们处境的危险,于是很快的逃走了。
Vocab
scuttlean entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

When you scuttle, you move with quick anxious steps, like a bug running for cover when a light is turned on.

Use the word scuttle when you want to describe running or fast walking that’s characterized by short, hasty steps, like someone or something that tries to hurry — a person who is late for work scuttling through a crowd of slow-moving pedestrians — but can't. It is also found in these well-known lines from T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": "I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."

All forms of 'scuttle' will appear on average once every 1913 pages.
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