| 释义 |
scrape /skreɪp/► SEE ALLscrape (up) an acquaintance with sbscrape (the bottom of) the barrelhave another string/more strings to your bow
●scrape (up) an acˈquaintance with sb (informal) try to become friends with sb because they might be useful to you 设法结识某人●scrape (the bottom of) the ˈbarrel (disapproving) use things or people of a low quality because all the good ones have already been used （因别无选择而）将就，凑合，降格◆TV is terrible at the moment, it’s nothing but old movies. They’re really scraping the barrel, aren’t they?
这一阵子电视节目很糟糕，除了老片子再没什么了。他们真是在应付，是不是？●have another string/more strings to your bow (BrE) something else that you can use or do if the thing you are using or doing fails 另有办法；有几手准备◆If I don’t succeed as an actor, I’ve got another string to my bow because I’m a trained music teacher.要是当不成演员，我还有另一条路可走，因为我还是个训练有素的音乐教师。 |