英语词汇“to the scout”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. The action of spying out or watching in order to gain information; chiefly in the phrases on or in (the) scout, to the scout. Also, an instance of this; a scouting or reconnoitring expedition. Also scout-round.

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1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iv. f. 34 But those that discouered for the Percians, were but a thousand horsemen, which keping the scoute a farre of, semed to the Macedons to be a great army.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1616/2 The order of their Marche was this,..the light horsemen..tended to the skowte [1587 skout] a mile or two before.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. i. xvii. 77 None of these things hindered the Generall from sending his brother in scowt, to discouer the pase.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 199 There are Malabar Barks commonly upon the scout, especially in the evening, skulking behind some Points of Land.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 237 I set my self upon the Scout, as often as possible.

1775 P. Schuyler in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 29 Capt. Baker..without my leave, went upon a scout and..was shot.

1788 W. Cowper Death Mrs. Throckmorton's Bulfinch 34 A beast forth-sallied on the scout, Long-back'd, long-tail'd, with whisker'd snout.

1864 T. Seaton From Cadet to Colonel xviii. 373 I thought it advisable to send Hodson on scout to Bilram.

1892 A. Bierce In Midst of Life 23 The commander asked him if in his scout he had learned anything of advantage to the expedition.

1906 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 328/2 We are back at Fort Paxton once more, after a forty-day scout.

1975 P. Dickinson Lively Dead xxii. 137 They'd enough reason to send a bloke to do a preliminary scout round.

1978 F. Branston Sergeant Ritchie's Consc. i. 12 ‘Organized a scout-round for the weapon?’ ‘Only in the immediate area.’

1980 A. Price Hour of Donkey iv. 55 Wimpy's scout through the wood must..be..completed... Bastable contented himself with cautious peering round each blind bend.

单词	to the scout
释义	> as lemmas to the scout 1. The action of spying out or watching in order to gain information; chiefly in the phrases on or in (the) scout, to the scout. Also, an instance of this; a scouting or reconnoitring expedition. Also scout-round. ΚΠ 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iv. f. 34 But those that discouered for the Percians, were but a thousand horsemen, which keping the scoute a farre of, semed to the Macedons to be a great army. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1616/2 The order of their Marche was this,..the light horsemen..tended to the skowte [1587 skout] a mile or two before. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. i. xvii. 77 None of these things hindered the Generall from sending his brother in scowt, to discouer the pase. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 199 There are Malabar Barks commonly upon the scout, especially in the evening, skulking behind some Points of Land. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 237 I set my self upon the Scout, as often as possible. 1775 P. Schuyler in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 29 Capt. Baker..without my leave, went upon a scout and..was shot. 1788 W. Cowper Death Mrs. Throckmorton's Bulfinch 34 A beast forth-sallied on the scout, Long-back'd, long-tail'd, with whisker'd snout. 1864 T. Seaton From Cadet to Colonel xviii. 373 I thought it advisable to send Hodson on scout to Bilram. 1892 A. Bierce In Midst of Life 23 The commander asked him if in his scout he had learned anything of advantage to the expedition. 1906 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 328/2 We are back at Fort Paxton once more, after a forty-day scout. 1975 P. Dickinson Lively Dead xxii. 137 They'd enough reason to send a bloke to do a preliminary scout round. 1978 F. Branston Sergeant Ritchie's Consc. i. 12 ‘Organized a scout-round for the weapon?’ ‘Only in the immediate area.’ 1980 A. Price Hour of Donkey iv. 55 Wimpy's scout through the wood must..be..completed... Bastable contented himself with cautious peering round each blind bend. extracted from scoutn.⁴ < as lemmas
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