crabbed

英 [ˈkræbɪd]

美 [ˈkræbɪd]

adj. 小而难辨认的
v. 横行; （遇到侧风或水流、气流时）使（飞机或船）作偏流修正; 捕蟹
crab的过去分词和过去式

过去式：crabbed　

BNC.49196 / COCA.37302

牛津词典

adj.

adj

A crabbed knot must have a crabbed wedge.
难解的绳结得用坚硬的楔子来对付。
Old age had crabbed my nature.
年老使我的性格变得乖戾。
Instead of including that paragraph, she added one that described Lengel's crabbed response to the girls so that she could lead up to the A& P "policy" he enforces.
这一段描述了Lengel对女孩子的回答尖酸刻薄，这样她就把话题引向了他强调的A&P政策。
He met a crabbed, cantankerous director.
他碰上了一位坏脾气、爱争吵的主管。
The world seems a vast horrible grinding machine, into which what is fresh and bright and pure is pushed at one end, to come out old and crabbed and wrinkled at the other.
这世界似乎是一台巨大而可怕的研磨机，一头送进去的东西是新鲜，光亮，纯洁的，另一头出来的却是老迈龙钟，脾气乖戾，满脸皱纹。
The crystalline regions of cashmere fiber melt and the yarn supercontracts after the cashmere yarn is crabbed above 130 in relaxed state.
130℃以上的松弛煮纱使山羊绒纤维结晶熔融，纱线发生过缩。
The name of duggan, written in a crabbed hand.
写得潦草难认的名字达根。