Crab

(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

• 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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