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 crawling [krɔl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
[化] 收缩龟裂; 漆膜收缩龟裂; 表面涂布不匀

  1. I felt something crawling up my arm.
    我感觉到有什么东西爬上我的手臂。
  2. The ground was crawling with ants.
    地上满是蚂蚁.
  3. She's always crawling (to the boss).
    她老是拍(上司的)马屁.


crawling
[ noun ]
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
<noun.act>
a crawl was all that the injured man could managethe traffic moved at a creep


Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crawled}
(kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crawling}.] [Dan. kravle, or
Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw.
kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to
scratch.]
1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling,
as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew.

2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous
manner.

He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
--Arbuthnot.

The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
--Byron.

3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self;
to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious
conduct.

Secretly crawling up the battered walls. --Knolles.

Hath crawled into the favor of the king. --Shak.

Absurd opinions crawl about the world. --South.

4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
as, the flesh crawls. See {Creep}, v. i., 7.

  1. Soviet authorities have come under considerable criticism for lack of organization in the quake relief efforts, but many of the area's leaders died or wandered in shock for days after crawling out of the rubble to find their families gone.
  2. All at once Samir slid to the ground, and putting on Othman's head in place of his own, started crawling towards me.
  3. An old dog with flies crawling in its eyes huddles in the shade.
  4. That made me feel a bit like a citizen of Stalingrad crawling from the rubble some 50 winters ago, picking up a copy of Pravda and reading the headline: 'Red Army wins battle for city.'
  5. We kept our markets open while the rest of the world was slowly crawling toward liberalization.
  6. "I'll take all night if I have to," Jennifer said to others crawling alongside her.
  7. Outside a seafood packing plant in Port Bolivar, Texas, a 100-foot-long pile of crab shells is crawling with maggots.
  8. With the case wrapped up, the paperwork began crawling through the Health Department.
  9. "I had nightmares when I first moved in," Ms. Noie said. "I dreamed of little babies with charred arms and legs crawling out of the barrels in back where they burn their medical waste.
  10. Monday night, when video tapes of Sunday's hurling and football matches are flown in from Ireland, is prime time for pastoral pub crawling.
  11. He said a few people _ apparently fans _ were discovered Sunday, crawling up the irrigation ditch leading from an adjoining ranch onto Johnson's land.
  12. The guy was crawling on the ground across the street, he fired a shot, and about 20 Iraqi soldiers just opened up on him." - freed hostage Ed Werner of Baltimore.
  13. Manuel Antonio Noriega, but Panama is gradually crawling out from under years of corrupt military leadership and U.S. economic sanctions.
  14. "The windows blew in and I started crawling into the bedroom," he said. "The refrigerator blew up against me and pinned me against the wall.
  15. Shouts went up when the salamander was discovered crawling along a fence leading to one of the tunnels.
  16. "The child doesn't remember anything, except crawling out of the water," said Larry Easton, a county sheriff's detective.
  17. Stocks of unsold air conditioners, due to an unusually cool summer, were a factor in the inventory rise, said Miti. 'The economy is still crawling along the bottom and it is too early to say whether it will dip again or not,' said a Miti official.
  18. The rescuers approached the crash site early Friday, crawling on their hands and knees for 90 minutes up a steep slope in darkness.
  19. Arriving in Hafer al-Batin, the two men find the town crawling with military police intent on apprehending renegade journalists.
  20. He gets in and out of the plane by crawling onto the wing, which sits about three feet off the ground, and then pulling the wheelchair up or letting it down with a strap.
  21. "I could not believe the level of brutality that was going on here," protest leader Randall Terry said Tuesday as police dragged or carried protesters who resisted arrest by crawling on hands and knees.
  22. Rasmi said Rabaiyeh's relatives inside a nearby house heard his cries, discovered him wounded and crawling on his hands and knees, and took him to Rasmi's pharmacy nearby, where Rasmi and doctors failed to save him.
  23. They are in danger of crawling out as the party of Mr. Whipple.
  24. Discovery Zone offers fitness centers for pre-teens that it says provide, in one hour of climbing and crawling, a workout equivalent to a mile run.
  25. They shot her seven times, even as she was crawling," said the teacher, who was treated at Beijing Union Medical College Hospital for a grazed ankle.
  26. Stock prices in 1991 more than doubled in value. Santiago's wealthy suburbs are sprouting luxury condominiums and crawling with expensive imported cars.
  27. Perhaps the candidate will further ingratiate himself with his superior by wearing a business suit when out on factory inspections, thus creating a perfect excuse for not crawling under machines or entering less-than-antiseptic work areas.
  28. After the eruption, communities still grieving for victims started crawling out and slowly cleaning up.
  29. The viewer is intended to begin at the Eastern end, where man is seen crawling out from the primal slime.
  30. The racing ducks will zip down wire-enclosed, 16-foot runways. While the birds run, handlers are allowed to encourage them by crawling along a ramp above the runway and making any kind of noise they figure will motivate their racers.
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