crumbles

英 [ˈkrʌmblz]

美 [ˈkrʌmblz]

v.  (使)破碎，成碎屑; 坍塌; 损坏; 崩裂; (开始渐渐)衰退，衰弱; 崩溃; 瓦解; 消亡
crumble的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)破碎;(使)成碎屑
  If somethingcrumbles, or if youcrumbleit, it breaks into a lot of small pieces.
  1. Under the pressure, the flint crumbled into fragments...
     燧石在压力的作用下碎成了小块。
  2. Roughly crumble the cheese into a bowl.
     把干酪大致弄碎，装入一只碗内。
• VERB 坍塌;损坏;崩裂
  If an old building or piece of landis crumbling, parts of it keep breaking off.
  1. The high and low-rise apartment blocks built in the 1960s are crumbling...
     20世纪60年代建造的高低不一的公寓楼群正在逐渐破损坍塌。
  2. The cliffs were estimated to be crumbling into the sea at the rate of 10ft an hour.
     预计那处悬崖会以每小时10英尺的速度坍塌坠入大海。
  3. Crumble awaymeans the same ascrumble.
     crumble away 同 crumble
  4. Britain's coastline stretches 4000 kilometres and much of it is crumbling away.
     英国的海岸线绵延4,000公里，其中大部分正在逐渐沉陷。
• VERB (体系、关系或希望等)崩溃，瓦解，消亡
  If something such as a system, relationship, or hopecrumbles, it comes to an end.
  1. Their economy crumbled under the weight of United Nations sanctions...
     在联合国制裁的重压之下，他们的经济崩溃了。
  2. The traditional marriage is crumbling fast...
     传统婚姻正迅速消失。
  3. It only takes a minute for the football hopes of an entire country to crumble.
     就在一分钟之内，全国民众的足球梦想就化为了泡影。
  4. Crumble awaymeans the same ascrumble.
     crumble away 同 crumble
  5. Opposition more or less crumbled away.
     反对势力差不多都瓦解了。
• VERB 不再抵抗;放弃奋斗;无力应付
  If someonecrumbles, they stop resisting or trying to win, or become unable to cope.
  1. Brighton have too many experienced players to crumble just because we are in town...
     布赖顿队有很多经验丰富的队员，他们不会因为我们在城里就丧失斗志。
  2. He is a skilled and ruthless leader who isn't likely to crumble under pressure.
     他是个经验丰富、冷酷无情的领导，不会被压力击垮。
• N-VAR 酥皮水果甜点
  Acrumbleis a baked pudding made from fruit covered with a mixture of flour, butter, and sugar.
  1. ...apple crumble.
     酥皮苹果甜点

双语例句

• Clongriffin is one of a number of north Dublin developments involved in legal cases over buildings contaminated with pyrite, a mineral that crumbles as it oxidises.
  Clongriffin是众多存在法律纠纷的北都柏林开发项目之一，原因是该项目的楼盘受到了黄铁矿一种氧化后会变成碎屑的物质的严重污染。
• And it is not just the wealthy and famous who are looking to safeguard their assets when a marriage crumbles.
  而且在婚姻破裂时才寻求保护自己的财产的并非只有富人和名人。
• And when death appears, it pales and withers and crumbles into dust.
  等到死亡出现的时候，它就苍白枯萎，碎成尘土了。
• Though I try to hide these, it is clear that my world crumbles when you are not here.
  虽然我试着藏这些，但是它是清楚的，当你不在这里的时候，我的世界崩溃。
• Black night, Dark sky,( Engage the pressure until it crumbles)
  黑色的夜，黑色的天。
• Disown all that, and the edifice crumbles.
  如果放弃了这些，社会体系就会动摇。
• This bread crumbles ever so easily.
  这种面包非常容易碎。
• If Kleiner Perkins crumbles because it cannot make a smooth transition to the next generation of partner-leaders, male and female, it will be a terrible waste.
  如果凯鹏华盈因为不能顺利地转交给下一代合伙领导人（无论男女）而衰落，那将是一种可怕的浪费。
• The surprising decision comes as the 40-year-old pricing system for iron ore, based on annual prices and lengthy negotiations, crumbles.
  这一出人意料的决定出炉之际，正值运行40年之久的铁矿石定价体系（通过漫长的谈判达成年度合约价）分崩离析。
• My point is not to argue with the ethics of this stance; it's just to observe that security consistently crumbles when developers and end-users adopt such adversarial stances toward each other.
  我在这里不是要讨论这种态度的道德问题；只是注意到，在开发人员和最终用户采取这种互相对立的姿态时，安全性正在不断地被破坏。