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词汇 scamper
释义 scamper
verb[ I+ adv/prep ]
uk /ˈskæm.pər/ us /ˈskæm.pɚ/
When small children and animals scamper, they run with small quick steps: (儿童或小动物)蹦蹦跳跳;惊惶奔跑
The children scampered off into the garden.孩子们蹦蹦跳跳跑进了花园。
Synonyms
scurry
scuttle
skitter
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to run
runShe saw him running down the street.
sprintI had to sprint to catch the bus.
jog"What do you do to keep fit?" "I jog and go swimming."
raceHe raced up the stairs to answer the phone.
rushEveryone rushed to the door when the alarm went off.
dashHe dashed out the door after the dog.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving quickly
agility
beetle
belt
bob up
bowl down/along something
cannonball
gallop
gun
leg
make a dash for something
make good timeidiom
make hasteidiom
make off
outrun
outrush
pelt
rush
scorch
scuttle
shoot

scamper | American Dictionary


scamper
verb[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]
us/ˈskæm·pər/
(esp. of small children and animals) to run with small, quick steps:
The kitten scampered around the kitchen, chasing a ball.

Examples of scamper


scamper
Holdgate's career was so varied and packed with action that the book becomes a scamper through the corridors of power.
You see the youngsters scampering off the playground, which is a field, back to the little school to put themselves under the school desks.
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I hope that we shall not indulge in this kind of scampering any longer.
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I know of few things more beautiful than rabbits scampering across the fields fairly late in the evening.
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If, however, an air raid comes, people will probably scamper here and there.
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We should not scamper through a debate on children.
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Even when people do go into hospitals, they are unduly scampered out, back to the slums from which they came.
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I have seen the children scamper into shelters as rockets came over.
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The lovely lady, the business man, the brilliant student, the scampering little girl have vanished, utterly consumed in the furnace of the flash.
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I have never understood why polytechnics are scampering for a geographical location in their title.
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We all have these little scampers from time to time.
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Our system could hardly be better designed to ensure that we foul up, because we are rushing and scampering at the wrong times.
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There is no time to go to the police authorities, so they go scampering about to neighbours and collect a few pounds to clear the rent, and they clear it.
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His scamper across the history which has elapsed between 1920 and now left out one or two things and in that scamper he also distorted one or two matters.
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People were scampering and rushing to work.
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