He was a small, crabbed, quick-tempered, spiteful man.

他是个身材矮小、躁、躁、恶毒人。

Ben Weatherstaff's crabbed old face was still wet with that one queer rush of tears.

季元本那张古怪老脸仍然湿漉漉，那是一种奇怪泪流。

His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls.

他姐妹们代替我去了莫顿：我坐着读席勒；他，正在破译他古怪东方卷轴。

There was not much, but there was enough—an empty phial, another nearly full, a hypodermic syringe, several letters in a crabbed, foreign hand.

东西不多，但也足够了——一个空小药瓶， 另一个几乎满了， 一个皮下注射器， 几封写在粗糙外国手上信。

The bitter check had wrung from me some tears; and now, as I sat poring over the crabbed characters and flourishing tropes of an Indian scribe, my eyes filled again.

这张苦票让我流下了眼泪；现在，当我坐下来仔细研究印度抄写员刻板文字和华丽比喻时，我眼睛又一次充满了。

I thought that such relentless application must be injurious, and tried to cajole him from the crabbed text-books; but his ardor seemed to grow rather than diminish, and his daily tale of hours increased.

我认为这种无情应用一定是有害，并试图把他从难看教科书中哄出来。但他热情似乎有增无减，他每天工作时间也增加了。