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1 It will earn you nine points in Scrabble.

2 A version of this brief appears in print on March 10, 2014, on page C3 of the with the headline: Lazy Scrabble Players, Here’s Your Book.

3 He said that as if playing Scrabble were as fun as going bike riding or something.

4 Scrabble, the word game played with lettered tiles, turns 70 this year and remains one of the most enduring and popular board games; it can also be played online.

5 HardScrabble: Just like ordinary Scrabble, but before you take a turn, you have to solve a calculus problem, drop and give 10, then juggle three of your tiles.

6 True Scrabble players, Daniel says, have learned how to check their egos at the church basement door.

7 The players decided to settle the dispute by checking the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Second Edition.

8 Scrabble rules: No letter may be moved afterhas been played.

纵横拼字游戏规则: 字母棋子已落到棋盘就许再动.

9 “I didn’t realize the difference between black and white schools until I was in seventh grade,” says Aylor, sitting at Scrabble, restored in 2009 as a senior center and cultural site.

10 I heard a noisy scrabble for coins on the floor.

我听到了那爬寻着抓地板上的硬币而发出的响声。

11 We're playing Scrabble. That's how bad it is.

我俩正在玩拼字游戏，这就是糟糕之所在。

12 “John, we need you to take all the offensive words out of the Scrabble dictionary.”

13 We had been playing a lot of Scrabble at Red Gate.

14 Garrison Keillor says his mother stayed in the house, "entertaining her family, playing Scrabble, reading, singing hymns and praying for her loved ones."

15 A Scrabble board was on the coffee table.

16 In the season one episode "Bart the Genius," Bart attempts to cheat in a game of Scrabble by putting "kwyjibo" on the board.

17 The White House hosts movie nights and the family play Scrabble together.

白宫会举行电影之夜，奥巴马一家会一起玩拼字游戏。

18 Mark’s idea: Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 13, and define it, as in Mark’s examples above.

19 “She played a mean game of Scrabble, made cussing sound like poetry and, I do believe, could speak with animals,” read one from a colleague.

20 The two-letter words added were gi, po, te, and da, which is actually making a comeback — it was in the first edition of the Scrabble dictionary, but Chew had it removed for the second edition.

1 乱写

scratch scribble blot scrawl

2 摸索

feel blunder grope grabble

3 搜集

rake glean

4 挣扎

struggling struggle flounder throe sprawl thrash flounce welter throes agony wriggle buffeting buffet agonise struggle along resist tug agonize

5 奋斗

arduous struggle wrestle tug fight battle combat

6 涂鸦

dauby graffiti doodle scribble daub graffito scrawl

7 乱抓

fumble

8 爬

run shin clamber

9 翻找

fish root burrow ferret rummage root around somewhere root around poke around delve scour grub poke about

10 乱摸

fumble

11 摸索着寻找

feel

12 扒

claw pilfer hook paw snitch

13 抓

hold grab handgrip drag claw rake

14 抢夺

rob spoil plunder snatch pluck depredate catch away

15 尽力

exertion work push bother strain exert endeavour all out do bit bust chops

16 攀登

climb ascent shin clamber scale ascend

17 争夺

contest dispute scramble contention vie jostle bundle war combat contend fight

18 乱涂

scrawl daub dash blot bedaub

19 摸

feel handle

20 努力

try effort pain attempt push fly struggle bid bother sweat endeavour exertion vigour botheration strain strive labour exert bust chops

21 用爪子抓

claw

22 乱动

flail