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- chiefly N. Amer. a child's bed with barred or latticed sides; a cot〈主北美〉（有围栏的）童床。
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- a barred container or rack for animal fodder: a manger（ 牲口的）饲料槽。
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- Brit. a model of the Nativity of Christ, with a manger as a bed〈英〉（以马槽为床的）基督诞生塑像。
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- informal a translation of a text for use by students, especially in a surreptitious way〈非正式〉（尤指学生偷偷摸摸地用的课文的）对照译文：
an English crib of Caesar's Gallic Wars
恺撒的《高卢战争》的英译本。
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- a thing that has been plagiarized抄袭（或剽窃）来的东西：
is the song a crib from Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'?
这首歌是不是从莫扎特的《唐·乔万尼》中抄袭来的？
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- informal, chiefly N. Amer. an apartment or house〈非正式, 主北美〉公寓套间; 房屋。
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- （亦作cribwork）a heavy timber framework used in foundations for a building or to line a mineshaft（建筑物的）木笼; （矿井的）井框。
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- Austral./NZ 〈澳/新西兰〉a light meal; a snack简单饭菜; 快餐; 小吃。
- ORIGIN: late 19th cent.:originally dialect.
(cribbed, cribbing)with obj.
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- informal copy (another person's work) illicitly or without acknowledgement〈非正式〉抄袭; 剽窃：
he was doing an exam and didn't want anybody to crib the answers from him
他在做试卷并且不希望别人抄袭他的答案
no obj. he often cribbed from other researchers.他经常剽窃他人的研究成果。
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- archaic steal〈古〉偷窃。
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- archaic restrain〈古〉束缚, 限制：
he had been so cabined, cribbed, and confined by office.
他被职务牢牢地约束着。
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- Brit. dated grumble〈英, 旧〉抱怨, 发牢骚。
派生词
cribber
noun词源
Old English （in the sense 'manger'）, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krib, kribbe and German Krippe.