crabbed
英 ['kræbɪd; kræbd]
美 ['kræbɪd]
- adj.不機嫌な；理解できない；不明瞭な；走り書きする
- v.文句を言う；横道にそれる（蟹の過去分詞）
英語の語源
- crabbed
- crabbed: [13] Because of their tendency to deploy their pincers at the slightest provocation, and also perhaps because of their sidelong method of locomotion, crabs seem always to have had a reputation for being short-tempered and perverse. Hence the creation of the adjective crabbed, which literally means ‘like a crab’. Its meaning has subsequently been influenced by crab the apple, famous for its sourness. (The semantically similar crabby is a 16th-century formation.)
- crabbed (adj.)
- late 14c., "peevish, angry, ill-tempered," from crab (n.1), from the crab's combative disposition; mid-15c. as "resembling a crab" in reference to crookedness. Of taste "bitter, harsh," late 14c., from crab (n.2).
例文
- 1. His mature composi tions are generally considered the more cerebral and crabbed .
- 彼の成熟した作品は一般的に理性的で理解しにくいと考えられている。
- 2.He met a crabbed ，cantankerous director.
- 彼は性格が悪く、けんか好きな主管者にぶつかった。
- 3.The crabbed ，patient experimenting of these Arab alchemists spread into the Christian world.
- これらのアラブ錬金術師はつかみにくく、粘り強い実験方法でキリスト教の世界に伝えている。dd>
履歴
- 4.The tightly packed words crabbed across the page.
- ぎゅっと詰まった字がページ上に斜めに横たわっている.
- 5.Broadside winds crabbed the boat close to riverbank.
- 舷側から吹いてきた風が船を川岸に斜行させた。
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