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little, brown, ______ dragons that hunted down the mice and ats in well-organizsed packs
scuttly
scuttle
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to move quickly, with small, short steps, especially in order to escape
（尤指爲逃脫）碎步快跑，快速移動
long ago, on the wild and windy isle of berk, a smallish viking with a longish name ____________________ in snow
stood up to his ankles in snow
They were standing on a bleak little beach at the bleakest spot on the who bleak island. ________ was falling
a heavy snow
fishlegs hada _____ that made him as blind as a jellyfish, and an allergy to retiles
squint
the next boy to speak has _____ for lunch for the next three weeks
limpets
he was a six-and-a-half foot giant with a mad _____ in his one working eye and a beard like explding fireworks
glint
glint
to produce small, bright flashes of light reflected from a surface
（由於表面反射而）閃爍，閃光
his lobster-red skin and ________ muscles
bulging
the ten boys ____ their heads backwards
tipped
in summer you could barely even see the cliff as dragons of all shapes and sizes swarmed over it, snapping and biting and sending up a __________ of noise that could be heard all over Berk
cacophony
but in winter the dragons were hibernating and the cliff ____________; except for the ominous, low ___ of their snores
fell silent; rumble
dragon this size are normally fairly harmless to man, but in these numbers they will set upon you like __________
piranhas
in these numbers they will ________________ like piranhas
set upon you
this will be the dragon that hunts fish for you, and ______ deer for you
pulls down
the boys scrambled into their places, baskets o their backs, and _____________
stood to attention
Gobber walked along the line, lgihting the torch that each boy held in front of him from the _______ in his hand
great flare
