v.(动词)

1. vi. 爬,爬行,匍匐而行; 徐缓而行 move slowly with the body close to the ground, or on the hands and knees
2. vi. 巴结,奉承 try to win the favor of sb in a powerful position by being too nice to them

n.(名词)

1. [S]缓慢的爬行 a very slow movement or speed
2. [U]自由式 a rapid way of swimming while lying on one's stomach, moving first one arm and then the other over one's head

Noun:

1. a very slow movement;

   "the traffic advanced at a crawl"
   

2. a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick

3. 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"
   

Verb:

1. move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground;

   "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
   

2. feel as if crawling with insects;

   "My skin crawled--I was terrified"
   

3. be full of;

   "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
   

4. show submission or fear

5. swim by doing the crawl;

   "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
   

1.爬;爬行;匍匐前进
When youcrawl, you move forward on your hands and knees.

e.g. Don't worry if your baby seems a little reluctant tocrawl or walk...
如果你的宝宝不爱爬也不爱走，不要担心。
e.g. I began tocrawl on my hands and knees towards the door...
我开始手脚并用朝门口爬去。

2.(昆虫)爬行
When an insectcrawls somewhere, it moves there quite slowly.

e.g. I watched the mothcrawl up the outside of the lampshade.
我看着飞蛾爬到灯罩外面。

3.缓慢行进;艰难前进
If someone or somethingcrawls somewhere, they move or progress slowly or with great difficulty.

e.g. I crawled out of bed at nine-thirty...
我9点半才勉强从床上爬起来。
e.g. They had not foreseen the higher inflation in France when most of Western Europe was crawling out of recession...
当西欧的大多数国家正从经济衰退中缓慢复苏时，他们并没有预见到法国的通货膨胀率会升高。

4.挤满，爬满(人或动物)
If you say that a placeis crawling with people or animals, you are emphasizing that it is full of them.

e.g. This place is crawling with police.
这个地方全是警察。
e.g. ...rock-hard earth littered with rubbish and crawling with vermin.
丢满垃圾、爬满虫子的坚硬土地

5.爬泳;自由泳
The crawl is a kind of swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, swinging one arm over your head, and then the other arm.

6.使震惊;使生厌
If somethingmakes yourskin crawl ormakes yourflesh crawl, it makes you feel shocked or disgusted.

e.g. I hated this man, his very touch made my skincrawl.
我讨厌这个男人，他碰我一下我都觉得恶心。

7. see also: kerb-crawling;pub crawl

1. 爬：这个婴儿还不会爬(crawl),更不要说走了. (let alone)(5)有些人想当然地认为日语(Japanese)中的每一个词(8)事先没有仔细阅读合同(contract)就签了名是吉姆(5) 当海啸(tsunami)袭来时,许多东南亚国家遭受了failed. (9)她病得很厉害,

2.

2. 爬泳：medley relay 混合泳 |crawl 爬泳 | breaststroke 蛙式

A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.

一个男人正从燃烧着的残骸往外爬。

There's a spider crawling up your leg.

有只蜘蛛正顺着你的腿往上爬。

The traffic was crawling along.

来往车辆缓缓而行。

The weeks crawled by.

几个星期慢慢地过去了。

She's always crawling to the boss.

她对老板总是谄媚奉承。

The place was crawling with journalists.

这地方挤满了记者。

Her hair was crawling with lice.

她的头发上爬满了虱子。

The traffic slowed to a crawl.

来往的车辆放缓速度慢慢前行。

a swimmer doing the crawl

游自由泳的运动员

Our baby is just starting to crawl.

我们的宝宝刚开始会爬。

I hated this man, his very touch made my skin crawl.

我讨厌这个男人，他碰我一下我都觉得恶心。

Don't worry if your baby seems a little reluctant to crawl or walk...

如果你的宝宝不爱爬也不爱走，不要担心。

I began to crawl on my hands and knees towards the door...

我开始手脚并用朝门口爬去。

I watched the moth crawl up the outside of the lampshade.

我看着飞蛾爬到灯罩外面。

I crawled out of bed at nine-thirty...

我9点半才勉强从床上爬起来。

They had not foreseen the higher inflation in France when most of Western Europe was crawling out of recession...

当西欧的大多数国家正从经济衰退中缓慢复苏时，他们并没有预见到法国的通货膨胀率会升高。

This place is crawling with police.

这个地方全是警察。

...rock-hard earth littered with rubbish and crawling with vermin.

丢满垃圾、爬满虫子的坚硬土地

The road is giving out all over! I think I can crawl back up.

路面整个都松动了, 我想我能慢慢爬上去.

The baby is just learning to crawl.

那个婴儿正在学习爬行.

I can have two whole days every week to crawl on the checkers without disturbance.

一个礼拜可以有两天时间在家踏踏实实地爬格子.

He will crawl anywhere if he can gain something by it.

他到处钻营,只要能有所得.

Nancy : Usually, people choose the Australian crawl, which is the fastest.

通常人们会选择澳大利亚爬泳, 因为它是最快的.

Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild.

或者你可以从碎石堆中走出,开始重建.

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

你生来是有翅膀的, 为什麽生命中要在地上爬 呢 ?

用作不及物动词S+～(+A)

1. We learn to crawl before we learn to walk.
   我们学会走路之前先要学会爬。
2. He's always crawling.
   他老是拍马屁。

1. Traffic was moving at a crawl.
   来往车辆在缓慢行驶。
2. Can you do the crawl?
   你会游自由式吗?

crawl to( v.+prep. )

巴结,奉承 try to win the favour of sb in a powerful position by being too nice to them
crawl to sb

You should be ashamed of yourself, crawling to the director like that.

你那样巴结董事,应该感到羞耻。

crawl with( v.+prep. )

爬满,满是 swarm with crawling things
crawl with sb/sth

The lawn was crawling with ants.

草坪上爬满了蚂蚁。

The platform was crawling with grey-green uniforms.

月台上全是穿灰绿色制服的人。

～+介词

• crawl%20to">crawl to巴结,奉承
• crawl%20with">crawl with爬满

介词+～

• crawl">move at a crawl缓慢行进

• A real crawl, moving along deliberately with his tummy right off the floor, is very unusual before six months.

  出自：P. Leach

• Time slowed to an inchworm's crawl.

  出自：S. King

• Slow crawl'd the snail.

  出自：J. Gay

• My grandson, nearly a year old,..had hardly tried to crawl yet.

  出自：R. C. Hutchinson

• A mythical universe peopled by lonely creatures crawling through the mud on their bellies.

  出自：M. Esslin

v.(动词)

1. crawl用作动词的基本意思是“爬行”,指腹部或双膝和手贴地爬行; 也可指“徐缓而行”,多用于指车辆缓慢前进,间或也可用于指时间。crawl与介词to搭配,意为“巴结,奉承”,多用于指下级对上级; 与介词with搭配,意为“爬满…,满是”。

v.(动词)

crawl, climb

这两个词的共同意思是“爬”。其区别是：

climb是指“用手脚攀登”,一般用于垂直地或倾斜地向高处爬; 而crawl一词是水平地“顺地爬,蠕动,匍匐前进”的意思。例如:

After many attempts to climb it, the mountain was finally conquered〔overcome〕 in 1985.经过多次努力攀登,这座山终于在1985年被征服了。

The baby crawled across the room.那个婴孩从房间的这边爬到那边。

creep，climb，crawl

这些动词都有“爬”之意。

creep多指人或四足动物匍匐爬行，尤指偷偷地或不出声地缓慢向前爬行。也指植物的蔓延生长等。

climb通常指用手或足爬上或爬下，也指飞机、日、月的上升，还可用作比喻。

crawl指人或动物以身躯贴着地面缓慢地移动。

• ☆ 直接源自中古英语的crawlen，意为爬行。