Score

(noun.) the act of scoring in a game or sport; 'the winning score came with less than a minute left to play'.

(noun.) the facts about an actual situation; 'he didn't know the score'.

(noun.) a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages; 'he studied the score of the sonata'.

(noun.) a set of twenty members; 'a score were sent out but only one returned'.

(noun.) grounds; 'don't do it on my account'; 'the paper was rejected on account of its length'; 'he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful'.

(noun.) a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest; 'the score was 7 to 0'.

(noun.) a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally).

(noun.) an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar); 'add it to my score and I'll settle later'.

(verb.) make underscoring marks.

(verb.) gain points in a game; 'The home team scored many times'; 'He hit a home run'; 'He hit .300 in the past season'.

(verb.) get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance; 'She scored high on the SAT'; 'He scored a 200'.

(verb.) make small marks into the surface of; 'score the clay before firing it'.

(verb.) write a musical score for.

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• If Mr. Snagsby hastens home to save his little woman the trouble of looking for him, he might set his mind at rest on that score. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Soon, from a score of the great windows, flames burst forth, and the stone faces awakened, stared out of fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Her clumsy fib had let him see that she had something to conceal; and she was sure he had a score to settle with her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• You've got me out of a score of scrapes. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The price of an ox, reckoned at ten guineas, is about three score times the price of a lamb, reckoned at 3s. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His expression was, 'a round score o' year ago, and a'most directly after I took up wi' Compeyson. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Then, a score of others ran into the midst of these, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and screaming, Foulon alive! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Such were the shouts which followed the stroke; and at the conclusion of which All-Muggleton had scored two. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Your censor-pencil scored it with condemnatory lines, whose signification I strove vainly to fathom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Throughout a large part of the United States, erratic boulders and scored rocks plainly reveal a former cold period. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It might, therefore, be natural to ask how far Edison or his companies have benefited pecuniarily by reason of the many belated victories they have scored in the courts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The doctor has scored once more. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• His face was gaunt and swarthy, scored with deep, savage lines. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Scores, says Mr. Bagnet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He'd have their lives, and the lives of scores of 'em. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• My old eyes have seen them--ay, and those old hands touched them too; for I have helped her, scores of times. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Nothing, for example, could on the surface be more trivial than an interest in baseball scores. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But it's extraordinary the difficulty I have on scores of such subjects, in speaking to any one on equal terms. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Haven't you done it, with other boys, scores of times? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He was a slow sailer on a wind of happiness, but he took a cross cut for the rendezvous, and pegged away as if he were scoring furiously at cribbage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• All was white, icy, pallid, save for the scoring of black rocks that jutted like roots sometimes, and sometimes were in naked faces. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

整理:威尔伯