They even wanted to take away the love she depended upon to live, to present her verdant spring to a crabbed old man. 人們甚至連她所賴以生活的愛情也要給她奪去了。 把自己的青春拿去服侍一個脾氣古怪的老頭子，得不到一點憐惜。
I simply cannot decipher his crabbed handwriting. 我簡直無法辨認他那些潦草的字跡。
His mature compositions are generally considered as the more rational and crabbed. 他成熟的作品一般被認為擁有更多理智但也難于理解。
Do not imagine that mathematics is crabbed and repulsive to common sense, it is merely the etherealization of common sense. 別把數學想象為無法理解的、令人討厭的、有悖于常識的東西，它只不過是賦予常識以靈性的東西。