scrabble

scrabble
verb
  1. [no obj.]scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something
    （为找到、收集或抓牢而）抓；摸
    she scrabbled at the grassy slope, desperate for purchase.
    她在青草坡上乱抓，拼命想抓住一个受力物。
    ■(of an animal) scratch at something with its claws
    （动物）用爪子拨划
    a lonely dog was scrabbling at the door.
    一只孤独的狗正在挠着门。
    ■[with adverbial of direction]scramble or crawl quickly
    快爬
    lizards scrabbling across the walls.
    迅速爬过墙壁的蜥蜴。
    ■make great efforts to get somewhere or achieve something
    努力，尽力
    I had to scrabble around to find my college place through Clearing.
    我必须穿过克里伦地区寻找我的大学校址。
noun
  1. [in sing.]an act of scratching or scrambling for something
    抓，扒；摸索
    he heard the scrabble of claws behind him.
    他听到背后有爪子的抓爬声。
    ■a struggle to get somewhere or achieve something
    努力；尽力；挣扎
    a scrabble among the salesmen to avoid going to the bottom of the heap.
    推销员们为避免业绩垫底所作的努力。
  2. (Scrabble)[mass noun](trademark)a game in which players build up words on a board from small lettered squares or tiles
    (商标)拼字游戏
语源
  1. mid 16th cent. (in the sense 'make marks at random, scrawl'): from Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben 'to scrape'. The noun sense 'struggle to achieve something' is originally a North American usage dating from the late 18th cent
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