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词汇 crawled
释义 crawled
past simple and past participle ofcrawl
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
The 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.
There's a lot of work to be done and we're crawling along at a snail's pace.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach
clamber
claw
claw your way (somewhere)idiom
crawl
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。
He 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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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。

Idiom


crawl back (to someone)

Examples of crawled


crawled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Many of these doomed larvae had crawled onto the sides of the vial rather than remaining on the food.
One might have worked upright, with a 'loose-eye', for instance, while another might have crouched and crawled on its belly while deploying its 'collie-eye'.
When the emergence hole was complete, the adult crawled out of the host egg onto the leaf epidermis.
I listened to the bristles as it crawled over the edge of a vertical piece of paper.
Once there, they flew or crawled upwards, through the funnel unit, towards the light and into the sample tube (fig. 2).
This stage fed more often and for longer periods, crawled less and fed more often in exposed locations on mature older leaves.
Visits to pistillate flowers were recorded only if the insect landed on or crawled over the stigma.
This larva had crawled out of the dish and was picked up together with some wood chips.
The females readily crawled onto the host, and typically oviposited within a few seconds.
Some worms crawled part way up the cone and then crawled around the cone, without migrating either farther up or back down to the flat surface.
She crawled around in circles.
The number of larvae which did migrate down was slightly, but not significantly, greater than the number which crawled to the well in the centre of the flat control plates.
A boy of five crawled through, and lost both his legs above the knee.
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In our various ways, we are all crawled over by accountants, and it is not always something that one really wants.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I have crawled over and under lorries and have seen the faults that have been found.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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