Scout
[skaʊt]
解释:
(noun.) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory.
(noun.) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports).
(noun.) a Boy Scout or Girl Scout.
(verb.) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody.
整理:罗莎--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A swift sailing boat.
(n.) A projecting rock.
(v. t.) To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.
(n.) A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy.
(n.) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
(n.) A fielder in a game for practice.
(n.) The act of scouting or reconnoitering.
(v. t.) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
(v. t.) To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.
(v. i.) To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.
埃弗雷特编辑
同义词及近义词:
n. Spy.
v. n. Act the spy.
v. a. Ridicule, deride, disdain, despise, contemn, scorn, spurn, scoff at, laugh at, sneer at, hold in contempt.
凯茜录入
同义词及反义词:
[See SCORN]
伊恩校对
解释:
n. one sent out to bring in tidings observe the enemy &c.: a spy: a sneak: in cricket a fielder: the act of watching: a bird of the auk family: a college servant at Oxford the same as gyp in Cambridge and skip in Dublin.—v.t. to watch closely.—n. Scout′-mas′ter an officer who has the direction of army scouts.
v.i. (Scot.) to pour forth a liquid forcibly esp. excrement.—n. the guillemot.
v.t. to sneer at: to reject with disdain.—adv. Scout′ingly sneeringly.
克莱德编辑
例句:
- Word was soon brought that I was nowhere to be found, either in the palace or at my former quarters in the barracks of the air-scout squadron. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It is so unworthy of you, this setting on of such a shameful scout. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Isn't it droll that I never go out after dark, but I find myself attended, always by one scout, and often by two? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The day after I assumed command at Cairo a man came to me who said he was a scout of General Fremont. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Bid Hugh Bardon, our scout-master, come hither, as soon as he shall have spoken with Waldemar Fitzurse. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Nor was the agitation by any means diminished, when the scout rushed back with the intelligence that the lady was 'a slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- This was brought to me by a scout in gray uniform. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Westward rode the scouts and advanced guards. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Beneath a cluster of these which afforded perfect concealment from wandering air scouts, we lay down to sleep--for me the first time in many hours. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Thou wilt find him, as our scouts have brought notice, at the next Preceptory house of his Order. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- People talk across the court out of window, and bare-headed scouts come hurrying in from Chancery Lane to know what's the matter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Many wrecks have been found by these bottom-prowling scouts and valuable material recovered. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The scouts were hot and tired; the bowlers were changed and bowled till their arms ached; but Dumkins and Podder remained unconquered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Scouts, perhaps, these were. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Light cruisers are vessels of from 1,500 to 7,500 tons, used in scouting, as commerce destroyers, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- At the outset of the war this had been used chiefly for scouting, and by the Germans for the dropping of marks for the artillery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Scouting was evidently very badly done by Greek and Persian alike. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I have just returned from a small scouting expedition, and everything is favourable. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- It is too insolvent a state of things for any one with any self-respect to entertain, and is universally scouted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- They would be scouted in the south. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He scouted the idea of inevitable evils. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But the elders of the ship's family ruled us down and scouted our evidences. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
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