Cramp

(noun.) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together.

(noun.) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued.

(verb.) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle.

(verb.) affect with or as if with a cramp.

(verb.) secure with a cramp; 'cramp the wood'.

整理:凯瑟琳

• As soon as his chattering teeth would let him speak, he smiled vacantly, and said he thought it must have been the Cramp. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She was built by the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, of Philadelphia, was launched Oct. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• His next movement was to take from his pocket a small, thick book of blank paper, to produce a pencil, and to begin to write in a cramp, compact hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• His mind was sweetly at ease, the life flowed through him as from some new fountain, he was as if born out of the cramp of a womb. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• After questioning and examining her, Lydgate said to the house-surgeon in an undertone, It's not tumor: it's cramp. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Your Wellington is the most humdrum of commonplace martinets, whose slow, mechanical movements are further cramped by an ignorant home government. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I was cramped by my position and chilled to the bones. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It is so crooked and cramped and dirty that one can not realize that he is in the splendid city he saw from the hill-top. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It was traced on ruled lines, in the cramped, conventional, copy-book character technically termed small hand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He was putting it up, when she said, 'I think it is a cramped, dazzling sort of writing. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Can I even remember when the chilled, cramped feeling left me, and the throbbing heat came in its place? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I was afraid of cramps and I hoped we would move toward the shore. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I will; and you shall hear how poor the proposal is,--how trivial--how cramping. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

校对:史蒂文