Crab
[kræb]
解释:
(noun.) a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; 'he caught a crab and lost the race'.
(noun.) decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
(noun.) the edible flesh of any of various crabs.
(noun.) a quarrelsome grouch.
(verb.) fish for crab.
(verb.) scurry sideways like a crab.
(verb.) direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind.
编辑:谢恩--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
(n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
(a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
(a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
(a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
(a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
(a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
(a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
(v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.
(v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
(v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
(a.) Sour; rough; austere.
贝丽尔整理
解释:
n. a popular name applied to any of the short-tailed division of decapod crustaceans: a sign in the zodiac: a portable winch: a sour-tempered person: the lowest throw at hazard—two aces.—adj. Crabb′ed ill-natured: harsh: rough: difficult perplexing.—adv. Crabb′edly.—n. Crabb′edness.—adj. Crab′-faced having a sour peevish countenance.—n. Crab′ite a fossil crab or crayfish.—adj. Crab′-like moving like a crab.—n. Crab′-louse a crab-shaped louse infesting the hair of the pubis &c.—n.pl. Crab's′-eyes the scarlet seeds of an East Indian bead-tree: a concretion of carbonate of lime in the stomach of the cray-fish.—v.i. Crab′-sī′dle to go sideways like a crab.—n.pl. Crab′-yaws a name applied to the tumours of frambœsia on the soles and palms.—Catch a crab in rowing to sink the oar too deeply in the water: to miss the water altogether in making the stroke.
n. a wild bitter apple.—ns. Crab′-stick a stick made out of the crab-tree; Crab′-tree the tree that bears crab-apples.—adj. like a crab-tree crooked.
安尼塔整理
娱乐性解释：
To dream of crabs, indicates that you will have many complicated affairs, for the solving of which you will be forced to exert the soundest judgment. This dream portends to lovers a long and difficult courtship.
卡特编辑
例句:
- The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- The holes, which usually are about a foot deep, are made by the crab persistently digging up and carrying away little masses of mud or sand. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Probably the most interesting of them all is the great Robber-crab, which is found on certain islands of the Pacific. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- We use the crab-apple for preserving even now, although man’s ingenuity has succeeded in inducing nature to give us many better tasting kinds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- And they lie all tumbled about on the green, like the crab-apples that you shake down to your swine. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- When he is doing this the crab presents a very funny appearance. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- What Kind of a Crab Climbs Trees? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It had a pale ruddy sea-bottom, with black crabs and sea-weed moving sinuously under a transparent sea, that passed into flamy ruddiness above. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Here Darwin observed crabs of monstrous size, with a structure which ena bled them to open the cocoanuts. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Besides the water-crabs that we are most of us used to seeing and eating, there are several different kinds of land-crabs. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The gills of crustaceans, such as the crabs which run about in the air, are protected by the gill-cover extensions of the back shell or carapace. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Why do They Call Them Fiddler-Crabs? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Again he laughed, and said: 'Change it with Ursula, for the crabs. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Then I began to catch crabs and soon I was just chopping along again with a thin brown taste of bile from having rowed too hard after the brandy. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Everybody thinks me crabbed and odd (with perfect justice); and everybody thinks her sweet-tempered and charming (with more justice still). 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Speak up, you crabbed image for the sign of a walking-stick shop, and say you saw him put it there! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Crabbed and crusty as ever! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- A crabbed dialogue terminated in my being called une petite moqueuse et sans-coeur, and in Monsieur's temporary departure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- She had sat up of nights conning lessons and spelling over crabbed grammars and geography books in order to teach them to Georgy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
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