Crack
[kræk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a usually brief attempt; 'he took a crack at it'; 'I gave it a whirl'.
(noun.) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive.
(noun.) a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; 'there was a crack in the mirror'.
(noun.) a sudden sharp noise; 'the crack of a whip'; 'he heard the cracking of the ice'; 'he can hear the snap of a twig'.
(noun.) a long narrow opening.
(verb.) break into simpler molecules by means of heat; 'The petroleum cracked'.
(verb.) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking.
(verb.) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; 'The glass cracked when it was heated'.
(verb.) cause to become cracked; 'heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair'.
(verb.) break partially but keep its integrity; 'The glass cracked'.
(verb.) tell spontaneously; 'crack a joke'.
(verb.) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; 'The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler'.
(verb.) make a very sharp explosive sound; 'His gun cracked'.
(verb.) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; 'she cracked my password'; 'crack a safe'.
校對:弗恩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
(v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
(v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
(v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
(v. t.) To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
(v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
(v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
(v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
(v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
(n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
(n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
(n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
(n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
(n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
(n.) A crazy or crack-brained person.
(n.) A boast; boasting.
(n.) Breach of chastity.
(n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
(n.) A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
(n.) Free conversation; friendly chat.
(a.) Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
錄入:帕特里斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Break, cleft, breach, chink, fissure, crevice, cranny, opening.[2]. Report, clap, pop, burst, explosion.[3]. Snap (of a whip).
v. a. [1]. Break (partially), CRAZE.[2]. Split, chop, cleave, rend asunder.[3]. Snap (as a whip).
v. n. [1]. Break, split, burst, chap, open in chinks.[2]. Brag, bluster, vapor, vaunt, boast, gasconade, crow, exalt one's self, magnify one's self, TALK BIG.
a. [Colloquial.] Excellent, first-rate, of the first class, first-class.
錄入:威廉姆斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Split, break, splinter, chip, snap
ANT:Mend, repair, unite, piece, splice
校對:凯特
解釋/意思:
n. (Scot.) a moment an instant.
v.i. to utter a sharp sudden sound: to split: to boast: to chat.—v.t. to produce a sudden noise: to break into chinks: to split: to break partially or wholly: to open (a bottle).—n. a sudden sharp splitting sound: a chink: a flaw: a blow a smack: friendly chat: (slang) housebreaking: a craze: one who has a craze: a pert boy.—adj. (coll.) excellent.—n. Crack′-brain a crazy person.—adjs. Crack′-brained; Cracked rent: damaged: crazy.—ns. Crack′er one who or that which cracks: a boaster a lie: the pin-tail duck: (U.S.) a thin crisp biscuit: a bonbon or a small firework exploding when pulled asunder: (U.S.) a poor white; Crack′-halt′er Crack′-hemp (Shak.) Crack′-rope one likely to be hanged.—adj. Crack′-jaw of a word hard to pronounce.—ns. Cracks′man a burglar; Crack′-tryst one who breaks an engagement.—Crack credit to destroy one's credit; Crack tryst to break an engagement; Crack up to praise.
手打:谢莉
例句/造句/用法:
- I'll crack _my_ whip about their ear'n, afore they bring it to that, though, said Hiram, while Mr. Solomon, shaking his bridle, moved onward. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- When this crack closes no smoke can reach them, and if we hasten to extinguish the flames I believe they will be safe. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I didn't think there was a soul in England who didn't know Godfrey Staunton, the crack three-quarter, Cambridge, Blackheath, and five Internationals. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I'll crack ye over, if ye don't mind! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Maurice, leaning forward with a sigh, took a handful of nuts, which he proceeded to crack in a listless fashion. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The remaining crack was not over an inch in width a moment later. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Of all the imperfections (not considering glaring cracks or nicks), carbon spots are the most discernible. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- We have never seen ice better preserved through a long and hot summer than in a board shanty with only one thickness of siding, and that full of cracks and crevices. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- If we take a hot dish and put ice cream in it, it cracks because the dish when hot has expanded. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- If a gentle breeze is blowing, a barely perceptible opening of a window will give the needed amount, even if there are no additional drafts of fresh air into the room through cracks. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Lor, what cracks that off hoss has in his heels! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The unsightly cracks and humps in cement floors are sometimes due to the expansion resulting from heat (Fig. 5). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Of all these things I could have told the peculiarities, numbered the flaws or cracks, like any _clairvoyante_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The only person in my neighbourhood, whose face I had ever seen before, was an old, cracked sort of a general, his name I have forgotten. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I suppose, however, he had this move in his mind—he was always half-cracked—and then considered her provided for. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- They had always cracked in other wars. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The more cracked it was, the more Mrs General varnished it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Spects they's gwine to trade ye off with a lot o' cracked tea-pots and sich like! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- On hearing that I had been once more discovered I started so that the railing against which I leaned cracked again. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Then the bridge blew and one horse snapped his halter when he rose and jerked his head at the cracking roar and he went off through the trees. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemianism. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The wind howled dismally all night, and strange cracking and groaning noises sounded here, there, and everywhere in the empty house. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- In a day or two this becomes a deeper brown, and more or less disorganized, cracking, either round the edge, or right across the center, so that it can be readily peeled away. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- With that second shot came the cracking boom of grenades from around the corner below the bridge. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He had rushed down the stairs and flung across the street in a minute--the yellow postilion was cracking his whip gently. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The boom was a sharp crack that widened in the cracking and on the hillside he saw a small fountain of earth rise with a plume of gray smoke. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
整理:利亚