scuttle是什么意思

双语用例

• Enemy tonnage is largely lost, tied up at home or in neutral ports, sunk or scuttled—mostly scuttled, one might say.

• Certainly when one gets into the position of scuttling a ship and claiming its full insurance value one is dealing with very large sums indeed.

• I do not suppose there was ever a milder man charged with the duty of scuttling a ship or of destroying constitutional practice.

• Here we are, microscopic creatures scuttling about on the surface of a minor planet circling round a second-rate star in one of halt-a-million galaxies.

• The third was an inspector of scuttles, and he ordered them to get the cargo out and paint the scuttles inside.

• At times, indeed, their policy has seemed suspiciously like one of scuttling away from our responsibilities behind a smoke screen of bluster.

• She did not make eye contact with any customer whom she knew, and scuttled out.

• Thirty transports and store ships have been sunk, scuttled, or set on fire, with a loss of several thousands of lives.