They even wanted to take away the love she depended upon to live, to present her verdant spring to a crabbed old man. 人们甚至连她所赖以生活的爱情也要给她夺去了。 把自己的青春拿去服侍一个脾气古怪的老头子，得不到一点怜惜。
I simply cannot decipher his crabbed handwriting. 我简直无法辨认他那些潦草的字迹。
His mature compositions are generally considered as the more rational and crabbed. 他成熟的作品一般被认为拥有更多理智但也难于理解。
Do not imagine that mathematics is crabbed and repulsive to common sense, it is merely the etherealization of common sense. 别把数学想象为无法理解的、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。
