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Scuttle Verb 动词   [V Children Quick Steps Running

英语单词 scuttle
英美音标 英 ['skʌtl] 美 ['skʌtl]
中文释义 n.煤斗;天窗
v.凿沉;急走;快跑
英语例句 (1) Basically use at window of housetop scuttle, balcony.
(2) The children scuttle across the street.
(3) The spectators scuttled for shelter when it began to rain.
中文例句 (1) 主要用于屋顶天窗、阳台窗。
(2) 我看见他急匆匆地穿街而过。
(3) 一下起雨来,观众就纷纷找地方躲避。
vocabulary简明 When you scuttle, you move with quick anxious steps, like a bug running for cover when a light is turned on.
vocabulary扩展 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."
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]碎步疾跑;急赶;疾走 When people or small animals scuttle somewhere, they run there with short quick steps.
  [V adv/prep]
  • Two very small children scuttled away in front of them...

    两个小毛孩在他们前面屁颠屁颠地跑开了。

  • Crabs scuttle along the muddy bank.

    几只螃蟹沿着泥泞的河堤快速横行。

2
[VERB 动词]破坏;使成泡影;使中止 To scuttle a plan or a proposal means to make it fail or cause it to stop.
  [V n]
  • Such threats could scuttle the peace conference.

    这种威胁会阻挠和平会议。

3
[VERB 动词]凿沉(船) To scuttle a ship means to sink it deliberately by making holes in the bottom.
  [V n]
  [Also V]
  • He personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship.

    他个人已收到莱曼司令要求凿沉轮船的命令。

4
[N-COUNT 可数名词]同 coal scuttle A scuttle is the same as a coal scuttle .
  [mainly BRIT 主英]

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