Cracker
['krækə] or ['krækɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends.
(noun.) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet.
(noun.) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; 'crackers are often mistakenly called hackers'.
整理:华莱士--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who, or that which, cracks.
(n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
(n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
(n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
(n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
(n.) The pintail duck.
(n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
校對:维多利亚
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Hard biscuit.
錄入:莫伊拉
例句/造句/用法:
- He was a young man with a clear, hairless face, a long, thin nose, and rather nut-cracker jaws. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- That night I issued orders for opening the route to Bridgeport--a cracker line, as the soldiers appropriately termed it. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The boy is generous and warm-hearted, but a perfect fire-cracker when excited. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- By four o'clock in the morning the battle had entirely ceased, and our cracker line was never afterward disturbed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The teeth were never intended to take the place of nut-crackers nor to rival scissors in cutting thread. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Prentice would pour out half a glass of what they call corn whiskey, and would dip the crackers in it and eat them. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Squibs and crackers were thrown about. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- One thing I never could comprehend was that Tyler had a sideboard with liquors and generally crackers. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Fire-crackers and grenades were also known to the Chinese and the Greeks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- They try to fasten on the bull their _banderillas_--barbed darts ornamented with colored paper, and often having squibs or crackers attached. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- She brought crackers and we ate them and drank some vermouth. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There were crackers in it with the tenderest mottoes that could be got for money. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
錄入:佩内洛普