词族 · crabby
词形变化
英语词源
- crabby (adj.)
- 1520s, in now-obsolete sense "crooked, gnarled, rough," from extended sense of crab (n.1) + -y (2). Meaning "disagreeable, sour, peevish" is attested from 1776, American English. Both senses were found earlier in crabbed.
权威例句
- 1. Where are you, Little Crabby , you shrewd little thing?
- 哪儿去了? 我的小蟹!
- 2. I wish you a safe journey through the world, Little Crabby.
- 我对着眼前的世界说:小蟹,祝你一路顺风, 一路顺风.
- 3. " Do you mean Little Crabby? "
- “ 你是说那小蟹 吗 ?
- 4. My devotion to Crabby touched my companions.
- 我的真诚感动了我们这个团体.
- 5. Half an hour later when I held up the bottle Crabby was, to my amazement, gone.
- 半小时以后,当我再捧起那瓶子,我怎么也没想到, 瓶子变成了空的.