1. Broadside winds crabbed the boat close to the riverbank. 从舷侧吹过来的风使船斜行到河岸。
2. Instead of toiling at a crabbed text and then thinking over its significance, readers now could think unimpeded as they read. 读者不用先费力阅读潦草难认的原文,然后仔细考虑它的意义,他们现在可以一边看书一边流畅地思考。
3. Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed and repulsive to common sense, it is merely the etherealization of common sense. (别把数学想象为硬梆梆的、死绞蛮缠的、令人讨厌的、有悖于常识的东西,它只不过是赋予常识以灵性的东西。)——开尔文。