Scrape

(noun.) a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility); 'all that bowing and scraping did not impress him'.

(noun.) a harsh noise made by scraping; 'the scrape of violin bows distracted her'.

(verb.) scratch repeatedly; 'The cat scraped at the armchair'.

(verb.) gather (money or other resources) together over time; 'She had scraped together enough money for college'; 'they scratched a meager living'.

(verb.) make by scraping; 'They scraped a letter into the stone'.

(verb.) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner.

费格斯录入

• Why should a man scrape himself to that extent, before he could consider himself full dressed? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He was going out of the way, on what he had been able to scrape up, and a trifle from me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Scrape up a few stray locks of furze, and make a blaze, so that we can see who the man is, said Fairway. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He's always in the same scrape. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• So, have good courage, friend George; this isn't the first ugly scrape that I've been in with thy people, said Phineas, as he closed the door. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Now, Dodo, do listen to what James says, said Celia, else you will be getting into a scrape. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• What's a scratch here and a scrape there, a poke in this place and a dig in the other, to them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It isn't a mere pleasure trip to me, girls, she said impressively, as she scraped her best palette. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Its main features are described as follows: The types, being rubbed or scraped narrower toward the foot, were to be fixed radially upon a cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I've raked, and scraped, and borrowed, and all but begged,--and the price of these two was needed to make up the balance, and I had to give them up. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• In short, I do not believe there was a single girl of that description within two miles of us, with whom he had not scraped a kind of acquaintance. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• So, though we had escaped a sunken rock, which we scraped upon in the passage, I thought this escape of rather more importance to me. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The exultation and joy of the Pickwickians knew no bounds, when their patience and assiduity, their washing and scraping, were crowned with success. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Again, a minute bit of bark has been upturned by the scraping hand, and the direction of the break indicates the direction of the passage. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Scraping up a quantity of sand into a little heap, he grasps it with three of the legs on one side and hurries away with it to some little distance. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• His right leg was dragging, the side of the shoe scraping on the road as they walked him. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But I say,' resumed Lowten, scraping the back of the pen preparatory to making a fresh split, 'what a soft chap that other is! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• John Bull was the appropriate name of the man who first patented a scraping machine in England, about 1780, and Joseph Weeks the next one, some years later. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was more likely that Madame Fosco would hear the scraping of my pen than that I should hear the rustling of her dress. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You've got me out of a score of scrapes. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• If he had held his tongue he would have kept out of scrapes that he got into. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Them as sells heart's love and heart's blood, to get out thar scrapes, de Lord'll be up to 'em! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• You must have a prime minister, or you will get yourself into a series of scrapes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I was always first in the most galliantest scrapes in my younger days! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I'll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Really, Dodo, can't you hear how he scrapes his spoon? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

校对:佩里