crawl
verb /krɔːl/
/krɔːl/
动词形式
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they crawl | /krɔːl/ /krɔːl/ |
| he / she / it crawls | /krɔːlz/ /krɔːlz/ |
| past simple crawled | /krɔːld/ /krɔːld/ |
| past participle crawled | /krɔːld/ /krɔːld/ |
| -ing form crawling | /ˈkrɔːlɪŋ/ /ˈkrɔːlɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to move forward on your hands and knees or with your body close to the ground
爬；爬行；匍匐行进 - Our baby is just starting to crawl.
我们的宝宝刚开始会爬。 - A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
一个男人正爬离燃烧着的残骸。 - She crawled under the fence.
她爬到栅栏下面。
- As night fell, we managed to crawl back to our lines.
夜幕降临时，我们设法爬回了我们的防线。 - Has the baby started to crawl yet?
宝宝开始会爬了吗？ - We spent an hour crawling around on our hands and knees looking for the key.
我们趴在地上找了一个小时的钥匙。 - She was forced to crawl along through the thickening mist.
她不得不在越来越浓的雾中缓缓行驶。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- quickly
- slowly
- about
- …
- manage to
- start to
- across
- along
- into
- …
- crawl on (your) hands and knees
- Our baby is just starting to crawl.
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) when an insect, a spider, etc. crawls, it moves forward on its legs
（昆虫）爬行 - There's a spider crawling up your leg.
有只蜘蛛正顺着你的腿往上爬。
- There's a spider crawling up your leg.
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to move forward very slowly
缓慢行进 - The traffic was crawling along.
来往车辆缓缓而行。 - The weeks crawled by.
几个星期慢慢地过去了。
- The traffic was crawling as I left the city.
当我离开这座城市时，交通拥挤不堪。 - The taxi crawled to a halt.
出租车慢慢停了下来。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- quickly
- slowly
- about
- …
- manage to
- start to
- across
- along
- into
- …
- crawl on (your) hands and knees
- The traffic was crawling along.
- [intransitive] crawl (to somebody) (informal, disapproving) to be too friendly or helpful to somebody in authority, in a way that is not sincere, especially in order to get an advantage from them
卑躬屈膝；谄媚；巴结；拍马屁 - She's always crawling to the boss.
她对老板总是谄媚奉承。
- She's always crawling to the boss.
词源Middle English: of unknown origin; possibly related to Swedish kravla and Danish kravle.
Idioms
come/crawl out of the woodwork
- (informal, disapproving) if you say that somebody comes/crawls out of the woodwork, you mean that they have suddenly appeared in order to express an opinion or to take advantage of a situation
突然露面；纷纷出笼 - When he won the lottery, all sorts of distant relatives came out of the woodwork.
他博彩中奖后，八杆子打不着的亲戚都突然来登门造访。
- When he won the lottery, all sorts of distant relatives came out of the woodwork.
make your skin crawl
- to make you feel afraid or full of horror
使人毛骨悚然；让人起鸡皮疙瘩 - Just the sight of him makes my skin crawl.
一看到他，我就浑身起鸡皮疙瘩。
- Just the sight of him makes my skin crawl.
