Crumble
['krʌmb(ə)l] or ['krʌmbl]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) break or fall apart into fragments; 'The cookies crumbled'; 'The Sphinx is crumbling'.
(verb.) fall apart; 'the building crumbled after the explosion'; 'Negotiations broke down'.
伊丽莎白編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.
(v. i.) To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.
整理:诺拉
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Crush, break to pieces, disintegrate, reduce to fragments.
v. n. [1]. Fall to pieces, break into pieces, become disintegrated.[2]. Perish, fall into decay.
整理:诺里斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Disintegrate, pulverize, triturate
ANT:Consolidate, conglutinate, bond, amalgamate
巴尔托迪編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to break into crumbs: to scatter in crumbs.—v.i. to fall into small pieces: to decay.—n. a crumb: that which crumbles easily.—adj. Crumb′ly apt to crumble brittle.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Sand should abound in the clay in a certain proportion, or be mixed therewith, otherwise the clay, whether burned or unburned, will crumble. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It is a crude and largely unconscious answer to certain immediate needs, and without those needs its power would crumble. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- She measures time, not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise, and prosper and crumble to ruin. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I'll crumble you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The ridges thrown to this side and to that, now crumble in and close behind the last plough as it passes on, for all are following to the Guillotine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- When it was evacuated (as we shall see further on), the Confederacy at once began to crumble and fade away. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- By dint of hard scrambling he finally straddled the top, but some loose stones crumbled away and fell with a crash into the court within. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In other words, it was the kinetic energy of the rolls that crumbled up the rocks with pile-driver effect. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She crumbled it, and bending over his shoulder, put the crumbs into his hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The fire had crumbled down to greyness, and one of the lamps made a gurgling appeal for attention. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- All broken, and worm-eaten, and crumbling to dust at the edges. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- In the Sahara Desert much crumbling of the rock into sand has been caused by the intense heat of the day followed by the sharp frost of night. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- That was one regiment which had been eliminated from Lee's force by this crumbling process. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Rivers flowed back towards their sources; peaks and lofty mountains where countless trees had grown for ages rolled crumbling to the earth. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She remained long in her sitting-room, where the embers were crumbling to cold grey, and the lamp paled under its gay shade. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- His hopes and his ambitions were all crumbling about him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- On these stones that are crumbling away, the guide said, the Saviour sat and rested before taking up the cross. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- After a time he brought the mass to Edison, and said: There's something wrong about this, for it crumbles even after manipulating it with my fingers. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Much crust, if you please--much crisp crust, my dear, that melts and crumbles delicious in the mouth. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Granite quarried anywhere in which felspar predominates is not well adapted for buildings, as it cracks and crumbles down in a few years. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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