1FIGHTto have a short fight with someone, in a way that is not very serious or violent 扭打,冲突
scuffle with
Some of the demonstrators scuffled with the police.
示威者中有些人和警察扭打起来。
2.[always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]WALK to walk quickly and make a noise as your feetrub on the ground 拖着脚快走
Examples from the Corpus
scuffle• The shopping precinct is full of teenagersgathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.• After a lot of scuffling and grunting, the soldiers pushed Hilda out.• By the doors, where the couple had been, three teenageboys were scuffling and messing around.• I was all scuffled and pink.• Emptydoriesscuffled around the raft with their oars crossed.• Prowling, scuffling, moving around out there somewhere ... There was another crash of thunder.• Then there was another thud, followed by the noise of scufflingshoes on the barewood floor.• Mark Garcia, 41, died of apparent heart failure the day after he scuffled with officers.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + SCUFFLE | SCUFFLE + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤brief短暫的混戰▸➤little, minor小衝突VERB + SCUFFLE➤be involved in捲入混戰SCUFFLE + VERB➤break out衝突爆發◇A scuffle broke out among people in the crowd.人群中爆發了一場混戰。➤ensue衝突隨之發生PREPOSITION➤in a/the scuffle在混戰中◇He was injured in a scuffle at the demonstration.他在遊行示威時的一場衝突中受了傷。➤scuffle between⋯之間的混戰◇a scuffle between rival gangs敵對幫派之間的混戰➤scuffle with與⋯的混戰◇He was involved in a scuffle with photographers.他捲入了一場與攝影記者的混戰。