crab

英 [kræb]

美 [kræb]

n.  蟹; 螃蟹; 蟹肉; 阴虱寄生病
v.  横行; （遇到侧风或水流、气流时）使（飞机或船）作偏流修正; 捕蟹

复数：crabs　现在分词：crabbing　过去分词：crabbed　过去式：crabbed　第三人称单数：crabs　

CET6考研TOEFLGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.8024 / COCA.5100

牛津词典

noun

• 蟹；螃蟹
  a sea creature with a hard shell, eight legs and two pincers (= curved and pointed arms for catching and holding things). Crabs move sideways on land.
• 蟹肉
  meat from a crab , used for food
  1. dressed crab
     经加工的螃蟹
• 阴虱寄生病
  the condition caused by having lice (called crab lice ) in the hair around the genitals

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 蟹;螃蟹
  Acrabis a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
  1. Crabis the flesh of this creature eaten as food.
     蟹肉

英英释义

noun

• a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
  1. he caught a crab and lost the race
• decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
• a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
  Synonym:crab lousepubic lousePhthirius pubis
• the edible flesh of any of various crabs
  Synonym:crabmeat
• a quarrelsome grouch
  Synonym:crabby person

verb

• complain
  1. What was he hollering about?
  Synonym:gripebitchgrousebeefsquawkbellyacheholler
• fish for crab
• scurry sideways like a crab
• direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

双语例句

• I like to eat seafood ( crab/ shrimp/ shark/ sardine/ octopus/ cuttlefish).
  我喜欢吃海鲜（蟹/虾/鲨鱼/沙丁鱼/章鱼/乌贼）。
• But the lamb uses her thumb to bomb the crab's dumb comb and sends it to the tomb.
  但小羊用拇指投了个炸弹，炸中了蟹的哑梳子，把它送进了坟墓。
• Look closely at this tapestry and you'll find an emperor shrimp and a crab on a sea cucumber.
  华美的海洋生物图片。密切关注这一挂毯，你会发现一个皇帝虾和螃蟹在一个海参。
• Cancer is derived from the Greek word for crab, karkinos.
  cancer这个词派生自希腊语中表示螃蟹的karkinos一词
• I prefer clams, scallops and whelks tops(?) to crab and fish meat.
  较之螃蟹和鱼肉，我更喜欢吃蚌、贝和螺。
• The crab and the lobster have a race.
  螃蟹和龙虾进行跑步比赛。
• Crab, shrimp and vegetable soup!
  螃蟹，虾和蔬菜汤！
• I don't like to eat crab, yet I ate a bowl of crab soup.
  我不喜欢吃螃蟹，但我却喝了一碗螃蟹汤。
• And I'm drinking tea with a loser who's no better than a crab.
  我在跟一个几乎和螃蟹差不多的失败者喝茶。
• Used to eliminate all meat, fish head bone spur, shrimp and crab shell.
  所用肉类都先剔除骨头，鱼去头尾和骨刺，虾蟹去壳。