Brittle
['brɪt(ə)l] or ['brɪtl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets.
(adj.) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; 'brittle bones'; 'glass is brittle'; '`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal' .
(adj.) (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured .
(adj.) lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; 'a brittle and calculating woman' .
手打:玛吉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
手打:兰斯洛特
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Fragile, crumbling, shivery, frail, frangible, BRASH, easily broken (into pieces), easily shivered.
杰克校對
同義詞及反義詞：
[See FRAGILE]
艾丽莎手打
解釋/意思:
adj. apt to break: easily broken: frail.—ns. Britt′leness; Britt′le-stars or Sand-stars one of the classes of Echinodermata including forms not far removed from starfishes.
阿尔玛編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- But nothing that could be done would prevent the rubber from getting soft in summer and hard and brittle in the winter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- As brittle as crockery, sir, and as old as the church, if not older. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Silk, lace, and wool when bleached with chlorine become hard and brittle, but when whitened with sulphurous acid, they retain their natural characteristics. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Besides that the thread became so brittle that the slightest shock to the lamp broke it. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- They were of darkened red brick, brittle, with dark slate roofs. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I suppose illness and weakness had worn it and made it brittle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The rubber is much like tough, heavy dough--there is not much stretch to it and in a cold place it would become hard and brittle. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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