scrabble
verb /ˈskræbl/
/ˈskræbl/
[intransitive] (especially British English)动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they scrabble | /ˈskræbl/ /ˈskræbl/ |
| he / she / it scrabbles | /ˈskræblz/ /ˈskræblz/ |
| past simple scrabbled | /ˈskræbld/ /ˈskræbld/ |
| past participle scrabbled | /ˈskræbld/ /ˈskræbld/ |
| -ing form scrabbling | /ˈskræblɪŋ/ /ˈskræblɪŋ/ |
- to try to find or to do something in a hurry or with difficulty, often by moving your hands or feet about quickly, without much control
忙乱地找；翻找；乱抓；乱动 - scrabble around/about for something She scrabbled around in her bag for her glasses.
她在包里翻来翻去找眼镜。 - scrabble for something He was scrabbling for a foothold on the steep slope.
他在陡坡上挣扎着乱蹬，想找个落脚的地方。 - 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 - scrabble + adv./prep. In his panic, he began scrabbling at the lock.
他慌慌张张地开始撬锁。 - The kids scrabbled up the slope.
孩子们爬上斜坡。
词源mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘make marks at random, scrawl’): from Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben ‘to scrape’. - scrabble around/about for something She scrabbled around in her bag for her glasses.