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Перевод: scamper

[существительное]
быстрый бег; пробежка ; беглое чтение; поспешное бегство; бегство;
[глагол]
носиться; бежать стремглав

Тезаурус:

1. Whereas many otherwise "progressive" disciples of Rousseau believed in controlling the entire environment of the child and programming its mind with carefully selected sense impressions, Wordsworth and Dorothy believed in complete freedom: "Till a child is four years old he needs no other companions than the flowers, the grass, the cattle, the sheep that scamper away from him, when he makes a vain unexpecting chase after them, the pebbles upon the road etc.
2. "So scamper!"
3. Images of food drew it onwards to the tall, detached house at the end of the street; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful, pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows.
4. The specialists tend to live rather quiet, often secretive lives, while the opportunists scamper hither and thither, always on the lookout for a new kind of meal.
5. The main prey of predatory birds are the hundreds of different rodent species and the vast majority of these have evolved a protection system based on a quick scamper down a tunnel.
6. Whisk past her skirt and scamper, hairy feet
7. The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle's, where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine; and the poor people there - they'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up.
8. So have to scamper round perimeter of operating roundabout shouting instructions to two-year-old while preventing four-year-old (riding Prancer) from taking out small Birmingham person on Tosca next to him with his fists.
9. But the most preposterous law of all, a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal, is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime, even on the sunniest summer afternoon.
10. Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks' scamper through Japan in 1987; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland.
11. Out of doors, if it is being chased by a rival cat, a dog, or some human enemy, it will try, as always, to scamper up a wall or a tree, using its non-existent claws to cling to the surfaces as it leaps upwards.
12. It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals, because their surface to volume ratio is so large: if, for example, a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned, but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity.
13. The rushes on the floor were none too clean: hungry wolf-hounds foraged amongst them for bits of food and Corbett heard the squeak and scamper of rats.