| 单词 | crawl |
| 释义 | crawl (krɔːl ) Word forms: crawls , crawling , crawled 1. verb B2 When you crawl, you move forward on your hands and knees. Don't worry if your baby seems a little reluctant to crawl or walk. [VERB] I began to crawl on my hands and knees towards the door. [VERB preposition/adverb] As he tried to crawl away, he was hit in the shoulder. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: creep, slither, go on all fours, move on hands and knees 2. verb B2 When an insect crawls somewhere, it moves there quite slowly. I watched the moth crawl up the outside of the lampshade. [VERB preposition] 3. verb If someone or something crawls somewhere, they move or progress slowly or with great difficulty. I crawled out of bed at nine-thirty. [VERB preposition/adverb] They had not foreseen the higher inflation in France when most of Western Europe was crawling out of recession. [VERB preposition/adverb] Hairpin turns force the car to crawl at 10 miles an hour in some places. [VERB] Crawl is also a noun. The traffic on the approach road slowed to a crawl. 4. verb [only cont] If you say that a place is crawling with people or animals, you are emphasizing that it is full of them. [informal, emphasis] This place is crawling with police. [VERB + with] ...rock-hard earth littered with rubbish and crawling with vermin. [VERB with noun] 5. singular noun The crawl is a kind of swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, swinging one arm over your head, and then the other arm. 6. to make your skin crawl phrase If something makes your skin crawl or makes your flesh crawl, it makes you feel shocked or disgusted. I hated this man, his very touch made my skin crawl. 7. See also kerb-crawling, pub crawl Idioms: make your skin crawl to make you feel disgust He gave a laugh that made my skin crawl. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: crawl forward Bring your left hand forward and right leg, then right hand and left leg so you crawl forward along floor. The Sun Crawl forward the length of your exercise mat before crawling back. The Sun What other searchlights, my friends, what other harmonies, sweep across our world while we - unknowing as the crab and cat - crawl forward sightless, deaf and unfeeling? Times, Sunday Times He crawled forward under cover of a low wall while his team provided covering fire and acted as a diversion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although painfully wounded, he refused to be evacuated and on his own initiative crawled forward alone until he reached a position near an enemy emplacement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Should you now slow to a crawl, at the risk of being rearended by a faster-moving vehicle? Times, Sunday Times It forces us to slow to a crawl — which leaves plenty of time to take in the mountain scenery. The Sun The 1billion stockpile has built up at a dockyard while sales slow to a crawl. The Sun Exuberant rhythmic sections segued into a chant's slow crawl. Times, Sunday Times Even then, most predict a slow crawl out of a slump that they describe as the worst that they have traded through. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 爬行 Japanese: 這う |
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