| 单词 | scuttle |
| 释义 | scuttle (once / 1913 pages) 1n 2n 3v When you scuttle, you move with quick anxious steps, like a bug running for cover when a light is turned on. 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." WORD FAMILYscuttle: scuttled, scuttles, scuttling USAGE EXAMPLESThe process therefore seems likely to be beset by many of the same problems that scuttled U.S. efforts to secure a settlement, Heras said. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Many are fearful that their research will get scuttled, leading to disastrous consequences for the planet. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) This week, he dispatched a delegation to lobby President Obama not to use the U.S. veto to scuttle a U.N. Washington Times(Dec 15, 2016) 1 n an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper hatchway, opening escape hatch hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway something that provides access (to get in or get out) n container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire 3Syn|Hyper coal scuttle container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) v to move about or proceed hurriedly Syn|Hypo|Hyper scamper, scurry, skitter crab scurry sideways like a crab run move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time |
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