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| /skrætʃ/ |
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| 1 | I/T to pull your nails along your skin , especially because you have an itch that makes you want to do this （尤指因皮肤发痒）抓，挠 |
| Stop scratching! 别抓了！ |
| Scratch my back for me, will you. 帮我挠挠背，好吗？ |
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| 2 | T to cut someone’ s skin slightly with something sharp 擦伤，刮伤，抓伤（皮肤） |
| Don’ t worry; the cat won’ t scratch you. 别担心，这猫不会抓伤你。 |
| The tree’ s branches had scratched his hands and they were bleeding. 树枝刮伤了他的手，伤口在流血。 |
| | 2a | to damage a surface by marking it with something sharp or rough 划破；刻破 | | Someone’ s scratched my car door. 有人把我的车门刮花了。 | |
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| 3 | I/T to move something sharp against a hard surface and make a noise 刮擦使发出刺耳声 |
| +at I could hear the dog scratching at the back door. 我能听见狗在抓后门。 |
| | 3a | I to produce new sounds by moving a record backwards and forwards quickly with your hand while the stylus is resting on the record 摩擦音带；做出擦音效果 | |
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| 4 | T to remove something , for example a word from a sentence or something from a list 划掉；删除 |
| | 4a | to remove someone from a race before it begins 使退出比赛；使弃权 | |
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| 5 | T informal to decide not to continue with something such as a plan or project 终止（计划） |
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| 6 | T informal to write something very quickly and carelessly 仓促写下 |
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| - | scratch sb’ s eyes out informal
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| to fight or argue with someone in a very angry and cruel way |
| 愤怒地打架；激烈地争执 |
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| - | scratch your head
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| to not understand something or not know how to deal with it |
| （因不知如何应付而）搔头，伤脑筋 |
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| The decision has left many party members scratching their heads. 这个决定让许多党员大伤脑筋。 |
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| - | scratch a living
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| to manage to earn only just enough money to live |
| 勉强糊口 |
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| The farmer somehow managed to scratch a living from the arid land. 农夫想方设法在这贫瘠的土地上勉强糊口。 |
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| - | scratch the surface
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| to deal with only the simple or obvious parts of something |
| 仅触及表面；浮光掠影 |
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| We had only really scratched the surface of this fascinating country. 我们只不过接触了这个迷人国度里表面的东西。 |
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| - | you scratch my back (and I’ ll scratch yours)
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| used for saying that two people each do something to help the other |
| 你帮我（我也帮你） |
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| DERIVED WORD |
| scratched adj |
| a badly scratched CD 严重刮伤的CD |
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| PHRASAL VERBS |
| - | ˌscratch aˈround for |
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| | scratch around for sth: to try to find something by looking everywhere , even in places you would prefer not to look in 四处搜寻 |
| - | ˌscratch ˈout |
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| | to remove a word from a sentence or something from a list by drawing a line through it 划去；勾掉 |
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