| 词汇 | scratch |
| 释义 | scratch Theme: ELIMINATE tr. to eliminate something from a list; to cancel something.Scratch Fred. He can't make the party.We decided to scratch the idea of a new car. The old one will have to do. Theme: MONEY n. money.I just don't have the scratch.How much scratch does it take to buy a car like this one? Theme: TEMPORARY mod. impromptu; temporary.We started a scratch game of basketball, but most of the girls had to leave at dinnertime.This is just a scratch tape. After you use it for your computer program, someone else will write something over it. scratch 1. noun 1 money US, 1914. 2 unemployment benefit IRELAND, 2000. 3 a masturbatory manipulation of the clitoris UK, 1979. 4 a sound or rhythmic effect created by the manipulation of a vinyl recording US, 1995. 5 a drug addict US, 2001. 6 rubber marks left on a surface when a car speeds away US, 1966. 7 an attestation by a superior that a police officer was on his beat at a given time US, 1973 2. verb 1 to manipulate a vinyl record to create sounds and rhythms. Scratching, as a technique, was invented in the late 1970s by 13-year-old Theodore Livingstone (later Grand Wizard Theodore) and widely recognised by the mainstream in 1983 with the release of 'Rockit' by Herbie Hancock which featured Grandmixer DST scratching US, 1995. 2 to sign-on for unemployment benefit UK, 2000. 3 to forge US, 1962. 4 to erase something; to withdraw something from a competition UK, 1685. 5 to whip someone; to mark someone with a whip UK, 1956. 6 to paddle a surfboard energetically US, 1963.► scratch gravelto leave quickly, especially in a car US, 1968.► scratch headto have sex. From the sense of HEAD as 'penis' TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2003.► scratch your monkey(used of a drug addict) to satisfy your drug habit with an injection or other ingestion of the drug US, 1992 scratch around 1. scratch around/about/round to struggle to get something that you need, such as money or food, often by searching in different places+for There were still homeless people on the streets scratching around for a place to shelter.2. scratch around/about/round to search for something on the ground using your hands or a stick: A pathetic skinny dog was scratching around behind the dustbins searching for scraps of food. scratch out scratch out sth • scratch sth out to draw a line through a written word using a pen or knife, so that it cannot be read: He looked through the book, but many of the names had been scratched out.■ SIMILAR TO: cross out, score out/through scratch round BrE ► see scratch around scratch1. n. money. I just don’t have the scratch. 2. tv. to eliminate something from a list; to cancel something. We decided to scratch the idea of a new car. The old one will have to do. 3. mod. impromptu; temporary. (see also pickup.) We started a scratch game of basketball, but most of the girls had to leave at dinnertime.
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