crawl

C1 CET-4 Oxf 5000 大学 FREQ #5152 ★★☆☆☆

n. 爬行, 匍匐而行, 养鱼池 v. 爬行

发音

UK /kɹɔːl/
其它 /kɹaːl/
US /kɹɔl/
/kɹɑl/
AU /kɹoːl/
NZ /kɹoːl/

词形变化

crawls 复数 crawled crawling crawls 三单 crawls crawling 现在分词 crawled 过去式 crawled 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

爬行;缓慢地行进

动词

爬行;匍匐行进

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.

  2. 2.

    The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).

  3. 3.

    A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.

    自由泳

  4. 4.

    A very slow pace.

    比喻

    My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.

  5. 5.

    A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

    媒体

    The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

  6. 1.

    A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

v. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

    爬行

    匍匐

    蛇行

    不及物

    Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.

  2. 2.

    To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

    不及物

    The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.

  3. 3.

    To act in a servile manner.

    不及物

    Don’t come crawling to me with your useless apologies!

  4. 4.

    Followed by with: see crawl with.

    不及物
  5. 5.

    To feel a swarming sensation.

    不及物

    The horrible sight made my skin crawl.

  6. 6.

    To swim using the crawl stroke.

    不及物 及物

    I think I’ll crawl the next hundred metres.

  7. 7.

    To move over (an area) on hands and knees.

    及物

    The baby crawled the entire second floor.

  8. 8.

    To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.

    及物

    They crawled the downtown bars.

  9. 9.

    To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

    抓取

    爬取

    及物

    Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl websites faster and more efficiently.

词汇关系

相关短语

词源

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla (“to creep, crawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Saterland Frisian krabbelje, Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also Saterland Frisian krauelje (“to crawl, scuttle”), West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

来源:wiktionary