hopscotch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/    美 /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground. uncountable
    — No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
动词 v.
  1. To move by hopping. figuratively,intransitive
    — As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy.
  2. To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping. figuratively,intransitive
    — Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling.

词形变化

hopscotches present,singular,third-person hopscotching participle,present hopscotched participle,past hopscotched past

词源

词源 1
From hop + scotch (“scratch”).
词源 2
From hop + scotch (“scratch”).
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