crabbed

常见例句

Broadside winds crabbed the boat close to the riverbank.
从舷侧吹过来的风使船斜行到河岸。
The angel shut his eyes as the car crabbed around a corner.
当车拐进一个街角时，这个天使悠闲地闭上眼睛养神。
Snapping chalk lines, I crabbed myself from one side of the roof to the other, tacking down the fragrant shakes.
我侧身从屋顶一端走到另一端，划好粉笔线，钉好芳香的摇板。

Doug Springsteen was an Army driver in Europe during the Second World War who came home and seethed at his crabbed circumstances.
NEWYORKER: We Are Alive
He is an exhilarating writer, and his view seems so much more exciting, and inspiring, than the sometimes crabbed reasoning of Justice Scalia.
ECONOMIST: The politics of justice
Hence, there is something crabbed and withholding in her writings, as if she is going out of her way on principle to avoid giving any assurance that everyone in fact would be better off under capitalism.
FORBES: Uncommon Sense