英语单词 | scrawl |
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英美音标 | 英 [skrɔːl] 美 [skrɔːl] |
中文释义 | v.乱涂;潦草地写 n.瞎画;潦草的笔迹 |
英语例句 | (1) The little child was cautioned not to scrawl on the white wall. (2) She scrawled a few words on the postcard. (3) Your beautiful handwriting puts my untidy scrawl to shame. |
中文例句 | (1) 这个小孩被警告不能在雪白的墙上涂鸦。 (2) 她在明信片上草草地写了几个字。 (3) 你漂亮的字体把我的潦草字迹比得见不得人。 |
vocabulary简明 | To scrawl is to write in a quick, barely readable scribble. When you're signing a document, you might scrawl your name across the bottom. |
vocabulary扩展 | Doctors are well-known for the way they scrawl prescriptions on a pad, and you can refer to that chicken scratch handwriting itself as a scrawl. It's not easy to read someone's scrawl, which is careless and rushed. The origin of scrawl is (fittingly) unclear, although one guess connects it to the Middle English scrawlen, "spread out the limbs" or "sprawl." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]潦草地写;马马虎虎地写 If you scrawl something, you write it in a careless and untidy way. [V n prep] [V with quote] [V-ed] [Also V n]
2 [N-VAR 可变名词]潦草的笔迹;不工整的字迹 You can refer to writing that looks careless and untidy as a scrawl .
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