Scout的意思|Scout的解释-里氏词典

scout [skaut]

n. 守候, 侦察, 搜索, 侦察员, 侦察机

vi. 守候, 侦察, 巡视, 嘲笑

vt. 侦察, 跟踪, 发现, 监视, 嘲弄

[法] 俱察, 侦察兵; 俱察, 寻找

scout

[ noun ]

a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

<noun.person>

a Boy Scout or Girl Scout

<noun.person>

someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)

<noun.person>

someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

<noun.person>

[ verb ]

explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody

<verb.perception>

reconnoiter

reconnoitre

Scout \Scout\ (skout), n. [Icel. sk[=u]ta a small craft or
cutter.]
A swift sailing boat. [Obs.]

So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner
and conversation of the passengers. --Pepys.

Scout \Scout\, n. [Icel. sk[=u]ta to jut out. Cf. {Scout} to
reject.]
A projecting rock. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.

Scout \Scout\ (skout), v. t. [Icel. sk[=u]ta a taunt; cf. Icel.
sk[=u]ta to jut out, skota to shove, skj[=o]ta to shoot, to
shove. See {Shoot}.]
To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with
ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.
``Flout 'em and scout 'em.'' --Shak.

Scout \Scout\, n. [OF. escoute scout, spy, fr. escouter,
escolter, to listen, to hear, F. ['e]couter, fr. L.
auscultare, to hear with attention, to listen to. See
{Auscultation}.]
1. A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings;
especially, one employed in war to gain information of the
movements and condition of an enemy.

Scouts each coast light-arm[`e]d scour,
Each quarter, to descry the distant foe. --Milton.

2. A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so
called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and
at Dublin, a skip. [Cant]

3. (Cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.

4. The act of scouting or reconnoitering. [Colloq.]

While the rat is on the scout. --Cowper.

5. A boy scout or girl scout (which see, above).
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

Syn: {Scout}, {Spy}.

Usage: In a military sense a scout is a soldier who does duty
in his proper uniform, however hazardous his
adventure. A spy is one who in disguise penetrates the
enemies' lines, or lurks near them, to obtain
information.

Scout \Scout\, v. i.
To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of
an enemy; to act as a scout.

With obscure wing
Scout far and wide into the realm of night. --Milton.

Scout \Scout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scouted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Scouting}.]
1. To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for
the purpose of observation, as a scout.

Take more men,
And scout him round. --Beau. & Fl.

2. To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as,
to scout a country.

Gyp \Gyp\ (j[i^]p), n. [Said to be a sportive application of Gr.
gy`ps a vulture.]
A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at
Oxford called a {scout}. [Cant]

The move follows the decision announced Thursday by Britain's chief scout, Garth Morrison, to admit girls.
The helicopters, highly-classified versions of OH-58 scout aircraft, recently replaced smaller MH-6 Seabats on the barges.
John Philip Donovan, 18, of River Vale, N.J., was junior assistant scout master for a Boy Scout troop with learning and physically disabled scouts.
"Everybody's watching," says Don Daigle, a veteran Houston oil scout.
William Eaton, a former scout in the Ohio Territory and later U.S. Consul to Tunis, whence he had been unceremoniously expelled the previous February by Bey Hammouda for failing to bow and scrape like a European envoy.
The Army plans to retire 170 OH-58 scout helicopters and 450 utility helicopters, both dating back to the Vietnam War era.
"To the best of our knowledge, the ring was prepared and trained in the Canada refugee camp in Egyptian Rafah and from there they went with a scout to our territory," he said.
The only fatality of Lewis and Clark's expedition to scout the Louisiana Purchase occurred while it was camped on the river _ just across from what is now Nebraska.
The story, she said, centers mainly on a baseball scout's life and less on the game itself.
As the Dodger scout watches the Leones take batting practice one day, he heaps praise on the starting catcher, Juan Carlos Alvarez, within earshot of the Leones manager.
Everybody had his own way of beating the game." Often, settlers would sneak into the area to be claimed hours or days in advance to scout out desirable land.
After he retired as a player, Mr. Brito found work as a scout for the Dodgers in the early 1970s.
But Mr. Brito proved he belonged in the big leagues with his now legendary discovery of Mr. Valenzuela in 1978, at a game the scout was attending to watch a promising shortstop.
Connor's belief in the Shoshones' hostile intent could only have been strengthened by Mormon scout Orrin Porter Rockwell, bodyguard of pioneer Brigham Young.
"You never know when you're going to stumble on a future Hall-of-Famer throwing a rock at a bird," says Mr. Brito, expressing his version of every scout's fantasy.
They are there to appreciate, not scout, because the Cubans are out of their reach and the Antilles is not exactly a baseball hotbed.
"A company can lose an armored vehicle or two and keep going," says a scout for the Army's Third Armored Division, one of the units expected to drive into Iraq against the elite Republican Guard.
The forms place the responsibility for screening, selecting and approving local scout leaders on the sponsors.
Following the NATO summit, a White House advance team traveled to Moscow to scout out possible sites for the fourth meeting between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, planned for late May or early June.
PTAs and scout units have co-existed for 50 years, with parents from one group often deeply involved in the other.
The grandfather even took the older boy to scout meetings, mixing "with fathers half my age."
Ed Montague, a former shortstop with the Cleveland Indians and a longtime scout with the New York and San Francisco Giants, died Friday at the age of 82.
Members of the regional mountain police unit said the scout team was well-equipped, but apparently made the mistake of not obtaining current weather reports.
Calamity Jane, who dressed in men's clothes and boasted of her exploits as a pony-express rider and army scout, was one of the first women to arrive after gold was found in the late 1800s.
As a result, Granada is having to scout around for catering acquisitions on the continent -so far with no luck. Meanwhile, the company generates cash at a prodigious rate.
On his way to lunch, Freddie an ebullient 18-year-old from Chelsea, is here to scout out what's what after passing his A-levels.
The scout notified his commander, who contacted the INS in Nome, said INS spokesman Gary Johnson.
Seventy-two years after Congress stripped Buffalo Bill Cody of his Medal of Honor, the Indian scout's name has been restored to the honor roll.
South Koreans, who built many roads, factories and power stations in Iraq and Kuwait, sent a fact-finding team to scout out postwar contracts last weekend.
National spokesman Frank Hebb initially said Thursday national scout officials would "take a look at it and see whether we should ban this sort of thing.

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