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crabbed
时间: 2024-01-05 21:39:37
高中四级六级考研托福GRE
英 [ˈkrabɪd]
美 [kræbd]

adj. 潦草的;难认的;乖戾的;易怒的;被扭曲了的;难懂的

v. 横行;作蟹行;捕蟹;(crab的过去式和过去分词)

双语例句
  • He's not half as bad as he looks, for all he's so crabbed.

    他并不像看上去的那么坏,尽管他脾气暴躁。

  • Ben Weatherstaff's crabbed old face was still wet with that one queer rush of tears.

    斑驳的泪痕仍然挂在本·威瑟斯塔夫那张暴躁的老脸上。

  • There was a queer mixture of crabbed tenderness and shrewd understanding in his manner.

    他的性格很古怪,坏脾气中又夹杂着一丝温柔和善解人意。

  • Do not imagine that mathematics is crabbed, it is merely the etherealization of common sense.

    别把数学想象的那么晦涩,它只不过是赋予常识以灵性的东西。

  • Crabbed old and modern browsers.

    而老版本浏览器则运行缓慢。

近义词
同根词

词根 crab

  • crab n. 螃蟹;蟹肉;脾气乖戾的人;起重机 vi. 捕蟹;发牢骚;抱怨 vt. 抱怨;破坏;使偏航

释义
adj.

(of handwriting)ill-formed and hard to decipher

(字迹)潦草的;难认的。

(of style)contorted and difficult to understand

(文体)被扭曲了的;难懂的

  • crabbed legal language

    晦涩的法律用语。

ill-humoured

乖戾的;易怒的

  • a crabbed, unhappy middle age

    一个常发脾气的不愉快中年。

词源

"Middle English (in the sense ‘perverse, wayward’): from CRAB1, because of the crab's sideways gait and habit of snapping, thought to suggest a perverse or irritable disposition."

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