scrambles

英 [ˈskræmblz]

美 [ˈskræmblz]

v.  (迅速而吃力地)爬，攀登; 争抢; 抢占; 争夺; 艰难地(或仓促地)完成
n.  (尤指需要手脚并用的)艰难行走，爬，攀登; 争抢; 抢占; 争夺; 摩托车越野赛
scramble的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB (迅速地)爬,攀登
  If youscrambleover rocks or up a hill, you move quickly over them or up it using your hands to help you.
  1. Tourists were scrambling over the rocks looking for the perfect camera angle...
     游客们在正爬上岩石寻找最佳的拍摄角度。
  2. He scrambled up a steep bank.
     他攀上了一个陡峭的河堤。
• VERB 仓促行动;慌忙前往
  If youscrambleto a different place or position, you move there in a hurried, awkward way.
  1. Ann threw back the covers and scrambled out of bed...
     安掀开被子，急忙下了床。
  2. He scrambled to his feet.
     他赶忙站起身来。
• VERB 争夺;抢夺
  If a number of peoplescramble forsomething, they compete energetically with each other for it.
  1. More than three million fans are expected to scramble for tickets...
     预计会有超过 300 万的球迷抢购门票。
  2. Business is booming and foreigners are scrambling to invest.
     商业繁荣，外国人争相投资。
  3. Scrambleis also a noun.
     
  4. ...the scramble for jobs.
     对工作机会的争夺
  5. ...a scramble to get a seat on the early morning flight.
     争订凌晨班机的座位
• VERB 炒(蛋)
  If youscrambleeggs, you break them, mix them together and then heat and stir the mixture in a pan.
  1. Make the toast and scramble the eggs.
     把面包烤一下并炒些鸡蛋。
• VERB 倒换(无线电或电话信号)的频率(使只有持特殊仪器的人才能接收)
  If a devicescramblesa radio or telephone message, it interferes with the sound so that the message can only be understood by someone with special equipment.
  1. The latest machines scramble the messages so that the conversation cannot easily be intercepted.
     最新的机器对信号作扰频处理，通话就不易被侦听了。

双语例句

• Officials have mandated coal-fired plants to shut down to meet the goals, hence boosting demand for diesel, power generators and even candles as the country scrambles for extra power.
  政府官员已下令关闭燃煤发电厂。随着全国各行各业纷纷争夺额外的电力，对柴油、发电机、甚至蜡烛的需求都在不断增长。
• As the financial sector scrambles back to its feet after the catastrophic meltdown of 2008, an increasing Gulf is emerging between how people perceive the institutions at the heart of the crisis and those that managed to avoid the direct line of fire.
  在金融业从2008年的灾难性崩盘中爬起来，重新站稳脚跟之际，对于那些位于危机核心的机构和那些设法避开了危机直接冲击的机构，人们看法的分歧正日益扩大。
• NASA scrambles to see if materials dangling from Discovery's belly may endanger the spaceshuttle during re-entry.
  美国宇航局正忙于检查在发现号腹部摇晃不定的物体是否会在返航期间危及该太空船。
• The move comes as Japan scrambles for ways to persuade women to have more babies.
  这一行动的出现正值日本政府想尽各种办法鼓励妇女多生育孩子。
• As it scrambles to avoid bankruptcy, GM and its advisers are exploring two different bankruptcy scenarios, according to people with knowledge of the plans.
  据知情人士透露，就在公司想方设法避免破产之际，通用及其顾问机构也在研究两种不同的破产方案。
• The direct result of these scrambles is a credit crunch and a squeeze on aggregate demand that is forcing Europe into recession.
  相互踩踏造成会直接导致信用崩溃，以及足以导致欧洲陷入衰退的总体需求萎缩。
• When you ask the random number generator for a random number, the function performs some arithmetic operation that scrambles the seed, and it returns the result.
  当请求随机数产生器来获取随机数时，该函数基于种子来执行某些运算，然后返回结果。
• If the power fails before you save, all your changes are lost as the memory containing them scrambles.
  如果在你单击关闭按钮之前电源断掉，所有的修改都会丢失，因为包含文档的内存不能工作了。
• India is planning a radical overhaul of its environmental regulation to improve long neglected standards of compliance as it scrambles to protect fast-degrading natural resources.
  随着印度抓紧保护迅速退化的自然资源，该国正计划彻底改革其环境监管规定，提高长期被忽视的合规标准。
• While much of the country scrambles to catch up with safety standards, a little-known county in China's eastern Zhejiang province appears set to take the lead in school bus safety.
  在地区都在忙着赶上安全标准的时候，中国东部浙江省鲜为人知的小镇似乎开始在校车安全上起了带头作用。