scrabble

verb

1. 忙乱地找；翻找；乱抓；乱动
   to try to find or to do sth in a hurry or with difficulty, often by moving your hands or feet about quickly, without much control
   1. She scrabbled around in her bag for her glasses.
      她在包里翻来翻去找眼镜。
   2. He was scrabbling for a foothold on the steep slope.
      他在陡坡上到处试探，想找个蹬脚的地方。
   3. 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

1. VERB 乱扒;乱摸;(尤指在看不见时)摸索着寻找
   If you scrabble for something, especially something that you cannot see, you move your hands or your feet about quickly and hurriedly in order to find it.
   1. He grabbed his jacket and scrabbled in his desk drawer for some loose change...
      他抓起夹克，然后在书桌的抽屉里乱翻了一些零钱。
   2. I hung there, scrabbling with my feet to find a foothold.
      我吊在那儿，两脚乱蹬着寻找落脚点。
   3. Scrabble around or scrabble about means the same as scrabble .
      scrabble around 或 scrabble about 同 scrabble
   4. Alberg scrabbled around for pen and paper...
      阿尔伯格四处翻找笔和纸。
   5. Gleb scrabbled about in the hay, pulled out a book and opened it.
      格莱布在干草中乱扒一通，翻出一本书来并把它打开。
2. VERB 急于;苦求
   If you say that someone is scrabbling to do something, you mean that they are having difficulty because they are in too much of a hurry, or because the task is almost impossible.
   1. The banks are now desperately scrabbling to recover their costs...
      那些银行正在拼命急于收回成本。
   2. The opportunity had gone. His mind scrabbled for alternatives.
      机会已经失去。他苦苦思索别的方案。
   3. Scrabble around means the same as scrabble .
      scrabble around 同 scrabble
   4. You get a six-month contract, and then you have to scrabble around for the next job.
      你签了一份 6 个月的合同，接着还得拼命找下一个工作。

1. He grabbed his jacket and scrabbled in his desk drawer for some loose change
   他抓起夹克，然后在书桌的抽屉里乱翻了一些零钱。
2. I hung there, scrabbling with my feet to find a foothold.
   我吊在那儿，两脚乱蹬着寻找落脚点。
3. The banks are now desperately scrabbling to recover their costs
   那些银行正在拼命急于收回成本。
4. The opportunity had gone. His mind scrabbled for alternatives.
   机会已经失去。他苦苦思索别的方案。
5. It will allow you to read the news in bed, play multiplayer scrabble on any surface, check a recipe in a busy kitchen or view a large-scale Google map.
   你可以躺在床上阅读新闻、在任何地方玩多人拼字游戏、在忙碌的厨房中翻阅食谱，还可以查看超大尺寸的Google地图。
6. Lean to play cards, scrabble, or mahjong. Go to school.
   ，或学学打牌、拼字游戏或麻将，或者去上学。
7. I never knew about my mother's first husband until I was playing Scrabble one day when I was 10 or 11 and opened her weather-beaten copy of Webster's Dictionary to look up a word.
   在我10岁还是11岁之前，我对我母亲的第一任丈夫毫无所知。直到有一天我在玩猜字游戏时，为了查找单词，我翻开了她那本饱经风霜的韦伯词典。
8. She loves playing poker and Scrabble.
   她喜欢打打牌，玩拼字游戏。
9. Researchers scrabble for funds, and students complain of large classes and reduced teaching time.
   研究人员需要钱，学生抱怨大班上课和课时缩减也需要钱来摆平。
10. It is kind of hard to picture Lenny playing scrabble.
    很难想像兰尼玩填字游戏。
11. Do you guys want to stick around and play Scrabble?
    你们想不想留下来再玩一会拼字游戏呢？
12. I have beat you at scrabble!
    我在拼字游戏里赢了你！
13. The design and development of the theme hotel in our country elementarily remains at the scrabble stage.
    我国主题饭店的设计和发展基本上处于摸索阶段。
14. There everyone spends the evening playing Scrabble or watching TV.
    一个晚上大家玩玩牌，看看电视。
15. Scrabble about under the table for the dropped sweets I had to feel about in the dark for the light switch.
    在桌子底下摸索着找掉在地上的糖块.我得在黑暗中摸索着找电灯开关。
16. His favourite receations are golf and playing scrabble.
    他最喜欢的娱乐活动是打高尔夫球和玩拼字游戏。
17. To scrabble about in the rubbish.
    在垃圾中扒来扒去。
18. Michael's family celebrates with a regular Scrabble and pizza party every Friday night;
    迈克尔家每周五晚上都要欢快地玩拼字游戏，吃比萨饼；
19. Michelle has also said that Obama's urge to win sometimes makes him brag too much after winning family games, such as Scrabble or Monopoly.
    米歇尔也说有时候在家庭游戏，诸如拼字游戏或垄断游戏之后，奥巴马的获胜愿望使他吹嘘。
20. Esther just managed to scrabble to the top of the cliff.
    埃塞尔设法爬到了悬崖顶上。
21. We have stereotypical images in our minds of chess players, bridge players, poker players, but such an image is elusive when it comes to scrabble players.
    人们对于国际象棋、桥牌、扑克的参与者有固定的概念，可是这样的概念在拼字游戏中却是捉摸不定的。
22. They play poker and Scrabble together, and the girls often shop with each other.
    他们在一起打牌，玩拼字游戏，女演员们经常一起去逛街。
23. Scrabble rules: No letter may be moved after it has been played.
    纵横拼字游戏的规则：字母棋子已落到棋盘上就不许再动了。
24. Scrabble clubs draw members from all backgrounds, although with a weighting to the educated.
    拼字游戏俱乐部在.注重吸收教育良好的成员外，对各种背景的人员也兼收并蓄。
25. Scrabble's missing a piece.
    拼字板少了一片。
26. When the inventor of scrabble, Alfred butts, said to his wife one Sunday morning in1931," have a look at this when you've finished your breakfast* I think I've invented a new game", he still had a lot of perfecting to do.
    1931年一个星期日的早晨，拼字游戏发明人阿尔弗来德伯茨对他妻子说：“早饭后让你看样东西，我想我发明了一种新游戏。”当时，他的发明还远未成熟。
27. A Scrabble board, player, tournament a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner.
    拼字游戏板、参加者、比赛.竞技者进行一系列比赛决定胜者的体育比赛。
28. Inventor Butts's favourite variation is double bag Scrabble, with the vowels and consonants in separate bags.
    发明人伯茨最喜欢的变化是双袋法，即把元音和辅音放在两个不同的口袋里。
29. More so than a lot of games, Scrabble seems to have universal appeal.
    拼字游戏比其它许多游戏更显出其广泛的号召力。
30. We scramble and scrabble up the stony path toward the pot of gold we have taken to mean security.
    我们以为钱财就是安全，在通往大笔财富的石道上你争我夺。

noun

1. an aimless drawing

   Synonym:    scribbledoodle

verb

1. write down quickly without much attention to detail

   Synonym:    scribble

2. feel searchingly
   1. She groped for his keys in the dark

   Synonym:    grope for