no obj.
1- scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something（为找到、收集或抓牢而用手指）抓; 摸：
she scrabbled at the grassy slope, desperate for purchase.
她在青草坡上乱抓, 拼命想抓住某个受力物。
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- (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。
1.2
- with adverbial of direction scramble or crawl quickly快爬：
lizards scrabbling across the walls.
迅速爬过墙壁的蜥蜴。
1.3
- 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。
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- 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。
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- 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。
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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。
词源
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.