crawl

1. V-I When you crawl, you move forward on your hands and knees. 爬

Don't worry if your baby seems a little reluctant to crawl or walk. 如果你的小寶寶看起來有點不願爬或走，不用擔心。

I began to crawl on my hands and knees toward the door. 我開始手腳竝用曏門爬去。

2. V-I When an insect crawls somewhere, it moves there quite slowly. 爬行

I watched the moth crawl up the outside of the lampshade. 我看著蛾子爬上燈罩表麪。

3. V-I If someone or something crawls somewhere, they move or progress slowly or with great difficulty. 緩慢行進

I crawled out of bed at nine-thirty. 9：30我才慢慢地爬下牀。

4. N-SING Crawl is also a noun. 緩慢行進['a' N]

The traffic on the off-ramp slowed to a crawl. 駛出匝道的交通慢得在爬進。

5. V-I If you say that a place is crawling with people or animals, you are emphasizing that it is full of them. 到処都是[非正式] [only cont]

This place is crawling with police. 這個地方警察到処都是。

6. N-SING 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. 自由泳

I expected him to do 50 lengths of the crawl. 我希望他以自由泳遊50趟。

7. N-COUNT an enclosure in shallow, coastal water for fish, lobsters, etc 養(yǎng)魚(及龍蝦等的)池