crawl
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/krɔːl/
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/krɔːl/
to move on your hands and knees or with your body low to the ground
The baby learned to crawl across the floor.
寶寶學會了在地板上爬行。
when an insect or spider moves on its legs
I saw an ant crawl up the wall.
我看到一隻螞蟻在牆上爬。
to move very slowly
Time seemed to crawl during the long wait.
在漫長的等待中,時間似乎過得很慢。
to be too nice to someone in power to get something
He would crawl to his teacher for better grades.
他會巴結老師以求更好的成績。
to search the internet to collect data
Search engines crawl websites to index them.
搜尋引擎爬取網站以建立索引。
a very slow speed
The car moved at a crawl in heavy traffic.
在擁堵的交通中,汽車緩慢前行。
a fast swimming style where you move your arms over your head
She won the race using the crawl stroke.
她使用爬泳姿勢贏得了比賽。