| 词汇 | crabwise |
| 释义 | crabwise adverb UKuk /ˈkræb.waɪz/ us /ˈkræb.waɪz/ If you move crabwise, you move sideways or carefully and not directly.（蟹行般）横向地；小心翼翼地，拐弯抹角地 Backwards, sideways and back and forth anticlockwise back and forthidiom back to frontphrase backward backwardly laterad lateral laterally libration pull reverse round saw stand step aside swept-back take someone aside there and backidiom to and fro wrong She crept crabwise up the bank, and put on her stockings and slippers. The damaged snapper-boat instantly blasted from its nose tubes, decelerated, and went into reverse, flipping through space crabwise as it tried to regain the safety of the cruiser. To his astonishment the stranger's mobile lips twisted in a snarl and he edged crabwise toward the bushes bordering the glen. Examples of crabwisecrabwise To set our expectations about this question of origins in order we might do well to approach them crabwise by moving sideways from the present. Section 3 insinuates that the ballet can only be comprehended if approached crabwise, in a ruminative, yet exacting, account sensitive to temporal and spatial contingency. I thought that that was an imaginative crabwise rather than direct approach to the issue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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