Crawl

(noun.) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; 'a crawl was all that the injured man could manage'; 'the traffic moved at a creep'.

(noun.) a very slow movement; 'the traffic advanced at a crawl'.

(noun.) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick.

(verb.) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; 'The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed'.

(verb.) swim by doing the crawl; 'European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl'.

(verb.) be full of; 'The old cheese was crawling with maggots'.

(verb.) feel as if crawling with insects; 'My skin crawled--I was terrified'.

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• Twill make my skin crawl when I think of it in bed alone. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• As a general thing, strangers who crawl in there to sleep do not get up until they are called. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is very well to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Why, if we were all as industrious as you, little Busy-Body, we should begin to work as soon as we could crawl, and there would be a bad thing! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Why don't you crawl in and look for them inside the skin? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I shall dream of it nights and nights, I suppose; but I shall always swear my flesh don't crawl when I think o't! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Herein he was quite accurate; it being his habit, not to jump, or leap, or make an upward spring, at anything in life, but to crawl at everything. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Stooping, he crawled into the shelter beside the wounded officer, and placed a cool hand upon his forehead. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• At evening he crawled slowly back; and he used to go of nights to a little club at a tavern, where he disposed of the finances of the nation. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I crawled down between the gondola and the shelter of the high freight-car behind. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• My forehead hit something that gave me a violent bump and I felt blood on my face but I crawled on in and lay flat. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Monks went at once into the street; and the Jew crawled upstairs again for the money. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The Martian had crawled to my side and with staring eyes fixed on the single panel before us we waited in the silence of death. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Silently we dropped to the deserted deck, and on hands and knees crawled toward the hatchway. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• When he asked what should such fellows as he do crawling between earth and heaven, he was encouraged with loud cries of Hear, hear! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Crawling, guv'ner, again a wall-- True, Phil--shouldering your way on-- In a night-cap! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• These crawling things had fascinated my attention, and I was watching them from a distance, when Miss Havisham laid a hand upon my shoulder. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• At last, by a sudden impulse, just as our train was crawling out of a suburban station, he sprang on to the platform and pulled me out after him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Must man, the heaven-climber, be for ever the victim of the crawling reptiles of his species! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Dr. Cruger saw a continual procession of bees thus crawling out of their involuntary bath. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Do you not see that it is no use now to be crawling a little way after men of the last century--men like Bryant--and correcting their mistakes? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• More restless than he was, he crawls out of his house, and looks at me, and wanders to the door, and whines to go upstairs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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