Scout

(noun.) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory.

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

(noun.) a Boy Scout or Girl Scout.

(verb.) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody.

整理:罗莎

• Word was soon brought that I was nowhere to be found, either in the palace or at my former quarters in the barracks of the air-scout squadron. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• It is so unworthy of you, this setting on of such a shameful scout. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Isn't it droll that I never go out after dark, but I find myself attended, always by one scout, and often by two? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The day after I assumed command at Cairo a man came to me who said he was a scout of General Fremont. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Bid Hugh Bardon, our scout-master, come hither, as soon as he shall have spoken with Waldemar Fitzurse. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Nor was the agitation by any means diminished, when the scout rushed back with the intelligence that the lady was 'a slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This was brought to me by a scout in gray uniform. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Westward rode the scouts and advanced guards. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Beneath a cluster of these which afforded perfect concealment from wandering air scouts, we lay down to sleep--for me the first time in many hours. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Thou wilt find him, as our scouts have brought notice, at the next Preceptory house of his Order. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• People talk across the court out of window, and bare-headed scouts come hurrying in from Chancery Lane to know what's the matter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Many wrecks have been found by these bottom-prowling scouts and valuable material recovered. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The scouts were hot and tired; the bowlers were changed and bowled till their arms ached; but Dumkins and Podder remained unconquered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Scouts, perhaps, these were. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Light cruisers are vessels of from 1,500 to 7,500 tons, used in scouting, as commerce destroyers, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At the outset of the war this had been used chiefly for scouting, and by the Germans for the dropping of marks for the artillery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Scouting was evidently very badly done by Greek and Persian alike. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I have just returned from a small scouting expedition, and everything is favourable. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It is too insolvent a state of things for any one with any self-respect to entertain, and is universally scouted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They would be scouted in the south. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He scouted the idea of inevitable evils. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But the elders of the ship's family ruled us down and scouted our evidences. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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