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If you move crabwise, you move sideways — like a crab walking. You can say he slid crabwise along the wall or a crabwise step. It works as an adjective or as an adverb. People also stretch it a little: a plan that moves crabwise is not going straight at the goal, but along. It is not a street word; it sounds a bit like writing, or like a small joke. You would not use it for ordinary walking down a road.
橫著、側著(像螃蟹走)
原始詞典資料3 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。
crabwiseadj
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In the manner of a crab; sideways.
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Incidental.
- Quite apart from their crabwise and often reluctant embrace of religious toleration for a wide variety of religious dissidence, both countries achieved a wider distribution of prosperity than any other part of seventeenth-century Europe.
crabwiseadv
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In the manner of a crab; sideways.
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。