释义 |
acrawl, adv. or pred. a.|əˈkrɔːl| [f. a prep.1 11 + crawl n.1 and v.1] Crawling (with).
1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 146 Mountain tops..a-crawl with insects, above a few acres of wet! 1834Ibid. XXXV. 1003 Something a-crawl in the ditch. 1909R. Sabatini St. Martin's Summer i. 14 He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth. 1923Chambers's Jrnl. 29 Dec. 73/1 The slime..seems acrawl with strange forms of life. |