Many people with buckets are picking up shells and catching small crabs by the seaside.

海边有许多拿着水桶赶海的人们，他们在海边拣贝壳，抓小螃蟹，很有意思。

youdao

She had taken the hemp rope Zhao Yong used for catching crabs and was stuffing it into her mouth and swallowing it!

她把赵用来抓螃蟹的麻绳塞在嘴里要吞下去。

youdao

He made his living catching and selling crabs, so he killed many living creatures, but at least he was a very good son.

他靠捉螃蟹来卖为生，因此杀生很多，但是他是一个孝子。

youdao

Partly, he is a child, catching crabs and minnows, quite clear (as his four-year-old cousin isn't) about just how dead a dead sprat is.

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