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乖张的,执拗的,难解的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crabbed \Crab"bed\ (kr?b"b?d), a. [See {Crab},n.]
   1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or
      moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings,
      disposition, or manners.

            Crabbed age and youth can not live together. --Shak.

   2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; --
      applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.

   3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed
      author. ``Crabbed eloquence.'' --Chaucer.

            How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and
            crabbed, as dull fools suppose.       --Milton.

   4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. --
      {Crab"bed*ly}, adv. -- {Crab"bed*ness}, n.

资料来源 : WordNet®

crabbed
     See {crab}

crab
     v 1: direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
     2: scurry sideways like a crab
     3: fish for crab
     4: complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: {gripe}, {grouse},
         {beef}, {squawk}, {bellyache}, {holler}]
     [also: {crabbing}, {crabbed}]

crab
     n 1: decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened
          carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax
          and pincers
     2: a quarrelsome grouch [syn: {crabby person}]
     3: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
        [syn: {Cancer}]
     4: the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
        about June 21 to July 22 [syn: {Cancer}, {Cancer the Crab}]
     5: the edible flesh of any of various crabs [syn: {crabmeat}]
     6: infests the pubic region of the human body [syn: {crab louse},
         {pubic louse}, {Phthirius pubis}]
     7: a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too
        deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
     [also: {crabbing}, {crabbed}]

crabbed
     adj : perversely irritable [syn: {crabby}, {cross}, {fussy}, {grouchy},
            {grumpy}, {bad-tempered}, {ill-tempered}]