- 1
To clamber is to get somewhere the hard way, using your hands and your feet, because the place is steep, awkward, or has no proper path. You clamber over rocks, up a muddy bank, into the back of a truck, over a wall. It is slower than a clean climb, and it often looks a little : you pull, scramble, and catch your weight. Children clamber; walkers clamber; a cat can clamber onto a shed. Mountaineers more often just climb. You can also use it as a noun: a clamber over the rocks means that awkward climb itself. Informal to neutral spoken English — a doing word, not a grand one.
攀爬;手腳並用爬過去
組成Does not split in today's English. From Middle English clambren, to climb or to crawl. Scholars do not all agree after that: it may come from an old past tense of climb, or from an old Germanic verb of the same kind. Scots has clammer; Low German has similar climb-words. The noun (a clamber) comes from the verb.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
clamberverb/ˈklæmbə/
- 1
To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
- The children clambered over the jungle gym.
- Now, neither for his harp, nor quiuer, cares: / Him ſelfe debaſing, beares the corded ſnares; / Or leades the dogs, or clambers mountaines; led / By lordly Loue, and flames by cuſtome fed.
clambernoun/ˈklæmbə/
- 1
The act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb.
- Against intruding uncalled, and without a proper Sybilline conductress, into the realms of grim Pluto, he might have objections, not easily removed; but against a clamber to the scene of Jove's own Court [Mount Olympus], no objection could possibly lie, except the danger of breaking his neck, in coming down again;—much too trivial to deter a true virtuoso adept.
- The entrance to the caves is not far from the further gate of the park. Their position is truly disappointing. I had anticipated a clamber half up the side of the mountain, and then some vast rift of chasm, not attainable without difficulty and danger.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。