英语词源
- crabbed
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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).
权威例句
- 1. His mature composi tions are generally considered the more cerebral and crabbed.
- 他成熟的作品一般被认为是触动理智的和难于理解的.
- 2. He met a crabbed, cantankerous director.
- 他碰上了一位坏脾气、爱争吵的主管。
- 3. The crabbed, patient experimenting of these Arab alchemists spread into the Christian world.
- 这些阿拉伯炼金术士难以捉摸、坚韧不拔的实验方法传人基督教世界.
- 4. The tightly packed words crabbed across the page.
- 紧紧挤在一起的字斜斜地横在页面上.
- 5. Broadside winds crabbed the boat close to riverbank.
- 从舷侧吹过来的风使船斜行到河岸.
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