| 词汇 | crawl |
| 释义 | crawl verb uk /krɔːl/ us /krɑːl/ crawlverb (MOVE)B2[ I ] to move along on hands and knees or with your body stretched out along a surface: 缓慢移动；艰难前行；爬行；匍匐前进 crawl acrossThe child crawled across the floor.那个孩子爬过了地板。 Megan has just learned to crawl.梅甘刚学会爬。 The injured soldier crawled to safety.受伤的士兵慢慢爬向安全的地方。 He had to crawl along a ledge and get in through a window. [ I ] to move or progress slowly or with difficulty: The lorry crawled noisily up the hill. crawl alongThere's a lot of work to be done and we're crawling along at a snail's pace. to move slowly crawlThere'd been a bad accident on the motorway and traffic was crawling. trundleLorries trundle through the narrow lanes. creepHe crept downstairs, hardly making any noise. trudgeThey trudged wearily through the snow. strollWe spent the afternoon strolling around Budapest. ambleHe ambled over to the window. The baby was crawling around on the kitchen floor. With a wriggle, she managed to crawl through the gap.她身子一扭，设法爬过了缝隙。 The children crawled through an opening space in the fence. We were crawling along in dense traffic at 10 miles per hour. Every day buses crawl up the mountainside packed with visitors. She watched the line in front of her crawl slowly towards the two voting machines. Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach clamber claw claw your way (somewhere)idiom crawly four grovel on all foursidiom pull scramble shimmy slither slithery wriggle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Slow and moving slowly crawlverb (TRY TO PLEASE)[ I ]UKinformaldisapproving to try hard to please in order to get an advantage: 巴结，讨好;阿谀奉承;卑躬屈膝 I don't like people who crawl.我不喜欢卑躬屈膝的人。 crawl toHe crawled to the group leader because he wanted a promotion.因为想得到提升，他对集团领导阿谀奉承。 Praising insincerely or too eagerly backhanded compliment bootlicker bow and scrapeidiom crawler creep flummery glad-handing grovel grovelling grovellingly massage someone's egoidiom obsequious obsequiously people pleaser play up to someone sycophantic sycophantically toady toadying truckle crawlverb (FILL)be crawling with somethingC2informal to be completely covered with or full of a particular type of thing: 爬满；充满；挤满 After the bomb scare, the airport was crawling with police.收到炸弹恐吓后，机场布满了警察。 Idiomcrawl back (to someone) crawl noun uk /krɔːl/ us /krɑːl/ crawlnoun (SWIMMING)C1[ S or U ](alsofront crawl) a fast style of swimming in which the body faces down and you move your arms over and past your head one after the other in a circular movement, and kick with straight legs: do the crawlShe can do the crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke, which is amazing for someone so young. I tend to swim breaststroke — I can barely swim one width of the crawl. When you swim front crawl you put your face in the water. Their backstroke is superb but their front crawl still needs a lot of work. He ploughed up and down the length of the pool in a faultless front crawl. miljko/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Swimming anchor anchorman aquatics back dive backstroke bathing bellyflop cannonball dip dive diving pearl diver skin diving skin-diver skinny-dipping splash pad splash park swallow dive swan dive webbed crawlnoun (MOVEMENT)C1[ S ] a very slow speed: 缓慢移动;徐行;爬行 at a crawlTraffic moved forward at a crawl.车辆缓缓向前移动。 Slow and moving slowly (as) slow as molassesidiom at a snail's paceidiom by and byidiom by degreesidiom claw your way (somewhere)idiom float hang around in ones and twosidiom inch by inchidiom infiltrate infiltration jog labour sluggish sluggishly sluggishness snail staged struggle wander crawl | American Dictionarycrawl verb[ I ] us/krɔl/ crawlverb[I] (MOVE)to move slowly with the body stretched out along the ground or (of a human) on hands and knees: a caterpillar crawling in the grass The child crawled across the floor. fig. The train crawled slowly through the night. Idiomcrawling with something crawl noun us/krɔl/ crawlnoun (SWIMMING)[ U ] a way of swimming fast by lying with your chest down, kicking your legs, and raising first one arm then the other out of the water to move yourself forward crawlnoun (MOVEMENT)[ Cusually sing ] a very slow rate of speed: Traffic slowed to a crawl (= a very slow speed). Examples of crawlcrawl At approximately 8 - 10 months of age, typically developing infants begin to move about independently, by crawling, bottom-shuffling, and so on. Later on, rolling, crawling, sitting and walking were introduced in their statements. There are armed men crawling all over the building you are in. Down below, at street level, are the densely packed mortal masses who hail each float as it crawls by. Visits to pistillate flowers were recorded only if the insect landed on or crawled over the stigma. I listened to the bristles as it crawled over the edge of a vertical piece of paper. Inside the building tranquillity reigned, and it was said that all those who entered by crawling through the small door shared equal social status. As infants move about by walking, cruising, and crawling, they reach for different items, at different levels and locations, and from a variety of postures. Reaching, sitting, crawling, grasping, walking, and throwing are just a few of the plethora of skills babies master in their first few years of life. The females readily crawled onto the host, and typically oviposited within a few seconds. They are smaller, and their habit of nocturnal feeding is peculiar, as is also that of crawling considerable distances inside the clothing. However, there seems to be no significant effect of age, gender, and other motor development (like smiling or crawling) on the onset of babbling. Heart-clearing morning sky: in the offing smoke crawls; that is the warship he is aboard. A fully equipped and fitted out diner was much heavier than a mobile home, and when it was towed on its own wheels it moved at a crawling pace. When the larvae were placed in water they rarely rose to the surface ; mostly they crawled around at the bottom of the vessel without showing the typical wriggling motion. See all examples of crawl 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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