crabbed
英 ['kr?b?d; kr?bd]
美['kr?b?d]
- adj. 暴躁的；難懂的；晦澀的；潦草的
- v. 抱怨；側(cè)航（crab的過去分詞）
GRE
英文詞源
- crabbed
- crabbed: [13] Because of their tendency to deploy their pincers at the slightest provocation, and also perhaps because of their sidelong method of locomotion, crabs seem always to have had a reputation for being short-tempered and perverse. Hence the creation of the adjective crabbed, which literally means ‘like a crab’. Its meaning has subsequently been influenced by crab the apple, famous for its sourness. (The semantically similar crabby is a 16th-century formation.)
- crabbed (adj.)
- late 14c., "peevish, angry, ill-tempered," from crab (n.1), from the crab's combative disposition; mid-15c. as "resembling a crab" in reference to crookedness. Of taste "bitter, harsh," late 14c., from crab (n.2).
雙語例句
- 1. His mature composi tions are generally considered the more cerebral and crabbed.
- 他成熟的作品一般被認(rèn)為是觸動(dòng)理智的和難于理解的.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 2. He met a crabbed, cantankerous director.
- 他碰上了一位壞脾氣、愛爭吵的主管。
來自辭典例句
- 3. The crabbed, patient experimenting of these Arab alchemists spread into the Christian world.
- 這些阿拉伯煉金術(shù)士難以捉摸、堅(jiān)韌不拔的實(shí)驗(yàn)方法傳人基督教世界.
來自英漢非文學(xué) - 歷史
- 4. The tightly packed words crabbed across the page.
- 緊緊擠在一起的字斜斜地橫在頁面上.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. Broadside winds crabbed the boat close to riverbank.
- 從舷側(cè)吹過來的風(fēng)使船斜行到河岸.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
