| 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]
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]
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]
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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