scramble
verb- [intransitive] + adv./prep.
to move quickly, especially with difficulty, using your hands to help you synonym clamber(迅速而吃力地)爬,攀登 She managed to scramble over the wall. 她手忙脚乱地翻过墙。 He scrambled to his feet as we came in. 我们进来时,他赶紧从地上爬起来。 They finally scrambled ashore. 他们终于爬上岸了。 He scrambled up the cliff and raced towards the car. 他爬上悬崖,向汽车跑去。
Extra ExamplesHe scrambled up the stairs. 他跌跌撞撞地爬上楼梯。 They scrambled frantically over the piles of debris. 他们疯狂地爬过一堆堆瓦砾。 We scrambled for cover and hid underneath the truck. 我们慌忙寻找藏身之处,最后躲在了卡车下面。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- desperately
- frantically
- quickly
- …
- manage to
- down
- into
- out of
- …
- scramble for cover
- scramble to your feet
- scramble to safety
- …
- [intransitive]
to push, fight or compete with others in order to get or to reach something 争抢;抢占;争夺 - scramble for something
The audience scrambled for the exits. 观众竞相朝出口拥去。 - scramble to do something
Shoppers were scrambling to get the best bargains. 顾客争先恐后地抢购最便宜的特价商品。
- scramble for something
- [transitive]
to manage to achieve something with difficulty, or in a hurry, without much control 艰难地(或仓促地)完成 - scramble something
Cork scrambled a 1–0 win over Sligo. 科克以1比0险胜斯莱戈。 - scramble something + adv./prep.
Salah managed to scramble the ball into the net. 萨拉赫设法把球打进了网里。
- scramble something
- [transitive, usually passive] scramble something
to cook an egg by mixing the white and yellow parts together and heating them, sometimes with milk and butter 炒(蛋) scrambled eggs 炒蛋
- [transitive, often passive] scramble something
to change the way that a phone or radio message sounds so that only people with special equipment can understand it 扰码,倒频(改变电话或无线电信号,听众只有通过专门设备才能收听) scrambled satellite signals 扰码卫星信号
- [transitive] scramble something
to confuse somebody’s thoughts, ideas, etc. so that they have no order 扰乱(思维) - [transitive, usually passive, intransitive] scramble (something)
to order that planes, etc. should take off immediately in an emergency; to take off immediately in an emergency 命令(飞机等)紧急起飞;紧急起飞
walk/climb行走;攀爬
push/fight推挤;争抢
achieve something with difficulty艰难地完成
eggs蛋
telephone/radio电话;无线电
confuse thoughts扰乱思维
aircraft飞机
Word Originlate 16th cent.: imitative; compare with the dialect words scamble ‘stumble’ and cramble ‘crawl’.