| 单词 | scut |
| 例句 | Outside, in the thickening light of the late afternoon, with the rain trickling into his eyes and under his scut, he watched them as they joined him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the last time I shall be able to turn you into anything All the magic for that scut of thing has been used up, and this will be the end of your education. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s also a very practical reason for clambering up and down mountains, or doing anything arduous and unglamorous, what PIH-ers called “scut work.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Since his marriage to little Lady Ermesande three days past, the other squires had taken to calling him "Wet Nurse" and asking him what scut of swaddling clothes his bride wore on their wedding night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The inmates kept their eyes down as they did the scut work, emptying ashtrays and wiping the urine from toilets. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the downside of lockdowns: having to do the inmates’ scut work. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was “uninterested in the amount of scut work that’s involved with other fields of medicine,” Anna said. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z A great deal of astronomy is time-consuming scut work — almost impossible to do on the much sought-after massive telescopes on Chilean mountaintops; so armies of amateurs get to it. ArtsBeat: Amateur Hour: Jack Hitt Talks About an American Tradition 2012-05-16T19:53:00Z But it becomes a problem when colleagues regularly have to take on someone else’s scut work or put more thought into fixing a work product than was put into creating it. Advice | Work Advice: Strategic incompetence demands a strategic response 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Normally, the vice president gets the scut work, like, say, going to Lorain, Ohio, to talk about the infrastructure law. Who’s president anyway? Harris goes to Europe while Biden goes to Ohio 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The Senate twice used special trial committees in the late 1980s to handle the scut work of impeachments of federal judges, procedures that were upheld by the Supreme Court. Analysis | As Senate prepares for a speedy impeachment trial, some are urging a slower, more deliberative approach 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z “It’s not as easy as people think. The boring stuff matters — the scut work of supply chain and logistics and management is crucial.” Will Americans Lose Their Right to Vote in the Pandemic? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Women had long been employed in the scut work of doing calculations. The Secret History of Women in Coding 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z It was one thing to import them by the thousands to do the heavy scut work of building railroads and the like, quite an other to consider them Real Americans. Our nation’s most toxic obsession: The violent history of “Real Americans” 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z General Electric and other efficiency-minded corporations shipped scut work to India, where an educated workforce leapt at salaries a fraction of those paid in New York. Does This Man Look Like a Felon to You? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s hard enough to get help, especially to find someone willing to do the scut work of handling the books — which is often why a beloved volunteer gets free reign with the checkbook. Youth Sports Embezzlement: Every Organization Is At Risk 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s long been considered scut work—dirty, complicated, low-margin stuff, beneath the dignity of software companies. In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again 2012-07-05T15:31:09Z When I find it on my table, I make a pass at it and it leaps with a scut. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Ms. Foreman, a marketing consultant in Chicago, found the perfect phrase for this scut work that seems to keep expanding even as you cross chores off the list: administrivia. The New Old Age Blog: Death's Companion: Paperwork 2012-03-19T20:57:08Z So down and up, and down again through the woods about Coulsdon, where the rabbits peered at them through the bracken, and raising their white scuts, loped away at leisure to their burrows. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Ms. Foreman, a marketing consultant in Chicago, invented the perfect phrase for this scut work that seems to keep expanding even as you cross chores off the list: administrivia. The New Old Age Blog: Death's Companion: Paperwork 2012-03-15T18:14:17Z With head on one side, birds look critically down from boughs, nor think of flight; hares, taught by impunity, instead of making off, white scut in air, groom nose with paw, undaunted. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z On his head is a little round cap, with a tuft made out of a hare's or rabbit's scut. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Bun, bun, n. a dry stalk: a hare's scut: a rabbit. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z A dozen pairs of feet stamped a warning, and a dozen scuts scuttled into the bushes. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z It was of a very dark, almost black, colour, much larger than a Virginia deer, and more lightly built, with a longer black scut. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z Now, Nepalis staff Korean factories and Mongolians do scut work in Prague. Global Migration: A World Ever More on the Move 2010-06-26T20:47:00Z "Get out, you little devil—scut!" he shouted—and missed—and the effect was disconcerting to Coussirat. The Night Operator They would see the little white, fluffy scut go zigzagging through the yellow broom-sedge. Shadows of Flames A Novel Fluff-Button doubled away nimbly from his rush, but even so the dog's jaws snapped together just behind his scut. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z There are hundreds, and tens of hundreds of Mulgars in my forest, of more kinds and tribes than I have hairs on my scut. The Three Mulla-mulgars The only evil here is in your mind, you snooping scut. The Ethical Engineer Seventy yards away a rabbit flashed at full speed across an open strip of turf, and dived full into its burrow, and vanished with a flick of white scut. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts When I opened a window, the whole encampment scampered off, their white scuts bobbing up and down until they had completely disappeared into the brush. Letters from my Windmill A dozen scuts whisked in the air, and then vanished into the hedgerow. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Don’t ye know any better, ye scut?” demanded the first speaker, he who had asked for a repetition of the song. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards And I was surprised at what the young scuts knew—God save thim! The Boy Scouts Book of Stories Both male and female have a dark line down the back, rump, and scut. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Ask the bairn yon', that I ha' brought by th' scut o' th' neck. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Cuni was visibly impressed by these, and by the beauty of his fine scut. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z The wildness of a monkey condemned to live amongst goats, hanging on to their horns, and clutching at their scuts, and playing all the tricks that contrariness might suggest to a contrary nature. The Man Who Lost Himself A dirty filthy scut of a German waiter murdering a wounded Englishman. No Man's Land M. rolled over a white scut with obvious neatness and dispatch, and in shifting over to another hedgerow he shot a jay and gloried in its splendour. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler He seized her, luckily as he thought, by the scut; when lo! up started something black and "uncanny," with glaring eyes, making mouths, and grinning at him, as though in mockery. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 However, when he saw Cuni's little white scut scurry by, his instinct told him that this was what he sought. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Surprise your monkeys gathering nuts Or chase your wombats' flying scuts, Kilimanjaro! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 Its scut seemed to be about an inch long; the colour was a grizzly black; the mane about four inches long; the fore-hoofs were upright and shapely, the hind flat and splayed. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 "Tell me, yer reverence," he whispered, "did that mane scut of a tailor insult ye the other night?" My New Curate When they first appeared the place was alive with rabbits, who hurried to their burrows with a flash of white scuts. Mary Gray The White Doe watched their twinkling white scuts for a minute, and then, just as the moon broke from behind the clouds, with a hop, skip, and jump she launched herself playfully between the couple. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z I can whip the hide off'n the scut that says I didn't. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier The white scut of the rabbit and of certain deer is a signal for other deer or rabbits to follow a frightened flock. Social Life in the Insect World The white napkin whisked like the scut of a rabbit, and he bounded to my side. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 See how they go neck and neck wid their two noses not six inches from her scut; and dang my buttons but, witch or no witch, she's a thorough bit o' game, too. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Lazy pigeons flapped over the barley fields, and the rabbits kicked up their scuts and bolted into the hedges as the badger trudged past. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z "In a rabbit-warren," she said, "you learn not to notice scuts." Nicky-Nan, Reservist The rabbit flicked his white scut and sat up on his hind-legs, his whiskers quivering with excitement. Christmas Outside of Eden On the common above the Pot, a terrified white scut rose almost under his feet and sped along in front of him. A Maid of the Silver Sea Pinch its scut or bite its ears, and when it exclaims, "Miauw!" it is not a genuine rabbit, but a grimalkin in disguise. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 Isabel's vision was both keen and practised, but she saw nothing till the rabbit showed his white scut in a flickering leap to earth. Nightfall A little farther were yet stronger ones, who looked like young rats, ferreting and leaping about with their raised rumps showing their white scuts. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Here no flowers crept for warmth, no sentinel marmot turned his little scut with a whistle of alarm to vanish like a red shadow. At a Winter's Fire He fled to earth, but first it cost him dear; He left his scut behind, and half an ear. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Associated words: caudal, dock, scut, prehensile, caudate, bicaudal, rump, uropygium. tailless, a. acaudate, anurous. tailor, n. Putnam's Word Book Well, it was just her way, and she could no more help it than a rabbit can help wagging its scut, and yet it made me heavy-hearted to think of it. The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales When the huntsman one day broke his leg, he supplied his place with equal abilities, and came home with the scut in his hat, amidst the acclamations of the whole village. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Sometimes a rabbit would dash out into the road, stop to listen, and dart into the opposite hedge, all hind legs and white scut. The Gem Collector Take this hare's scut to wipe the rheum from your eyes. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 And others of you, if you had a rabbit's scut at the end of a hop-pole and the gray mud from a rain puddle, would produce work worth considering. Lying Prophets See! how mean, how low, The bookless sauntering youth, proud of the scut That dignifies his cap, his flourished belt, And rusty couples jingling by his side. The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations, by the Rev. George Gilfillan I thought you was ringing trees for that young scut at Gangoil? Harry Heathcote of Gangoil Athy lowered his voice and said: —Do you know why those fellows scut? A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Sometimes, a rabbit would dash out into the road, stop to listen, and dart into the opposite hedge, all hind-legs and white scut. The Intrusion of Jimmy Would you have a fine girl the like of Anna lying down at nights with a muddy scut stinking of pigs and dung? Anna Christie "What sort av a man are ye, at all, at all, that ye sind yer helpless childer to a strange land with a scut like that?" The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan The fox sprang at it, too late, for the white fangs closed emptily behind its scut. Red Eve M'Adam's inspection was as minute as it was apparently absorbing; he omitted nothing from the square muzzle to the lozenge-like scut. Bob, Son of Battle I don't know whether he obeyed or not, as just then I made my last double, and felt Jill's teeth cut through the fur of my scut and heard them snap. The Mahatma and the Hare Let you not be thinking I'm the like of them three weak scuts come in the boat with me. Anna Christie Again the beautiful Erza reached him, but when close to the hare's scut paused as if measuring the distance, so as not to make a mistake this time but seize his hind leg. War and Peace Its scut seemed to be about an inch long; the colour was a grizzly black; the mane about four inches long; the fore-hoofs were upright and shapely, the hind flat and splayed. The Natural History of Selborne Rolf overheard his uncle cursing "that ungrateful young scut—not worth his salt." Rolf in the Woods When the wheel broke up there was nothing of her left except her scut, which lay upon the ground. The Mahatma and the Hare BURKE—I have—with every scut would take off his coat to me! Anna Christie So, you young scut! that is how you waste your time. Rolf in the Woods |
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