crunched

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v.  嘎吱嘎吱地嚼; (使)发出碎裂声; (在路上)行进发出响声
crunch的过去分词和过去式

COCA.44855

柯林斯词典

• VERB 嘎吱嘎吱地嚼
  If youcrunchsomething hard, such as a sweet, you crush it noisily between your teeth.
  1. She sucked an ice cube into her mouth, and crunched it loudly...
     她吸了块冰块到嘴里，嘎嘣嘎嘣地大声嚼着。
  2. Richard crunched into the apple.
     理查德咬了一口苹果。
• V-ERG (使)发出碎裂声;(使)嘎吱作响
  If somethingcrunchesor if youcrunchit, it makes a breaking or crushing noise, for example when you step on it.
  1. A piece of china crunched under my foot...
     我踩碎了一块瓷片。
  2. He crunched the sheets of paper in his hands.
     他把那沓纸揉得嚓嚓响。
  3. Crunchis also a noun.
     
  4. She heard the crunch of tires on the gravel driveway.
     她听到轮胎轧过石子铺成的车道，发出嘎吱声。
• VERB (在小石子铺成的路上)嘎吱嘎吱地行进
  If youcrunchacross a surface made of very small stones, you move across it causing it to make a crunching noise.
  1. I crunched across the gravel.
     我嘎吱嘎吱地走过石子路。
  2. ...wheels crunching over a stony surface.
     嘎吱嘎吱地驶过石头路面的车轮
• N-SING 紧要关头;重要事件
  You can refer to an important time or event, for example when an important decision has to be made, asthe crunch.
  1. Tomorrow, though, is the crunch...
     明天可就是紧要关头了。
  2. He can rely on my support when the crunch comes...
     关键时刻，他可以依靠我的支持。
  3. The Prime Minister is expected to call a crunch meeting on Monday.
     预计首相将于周一召开紧急会议。
• VERB (用计算器或计算机大量地)处理(数字)
  Tocrunchnumbers means to do a lot of calculations using a calculator or computer.
  1. I pored over the books with great enthusiasm, often crunching the numbers until 1:00 a.m.
     我兴致勃勃地研究这些账簿，经常计算到凌晨1点。
• N-COUNT 缺少资金;经济收缩;财政困难
  A situation in which a business or economy has very little money can be referred to as acrunch.
  1. The UN is facing a cash crunch.
     联合国面临着现金短缺问题。
  2. ...a financial crunch that could threaten the company's future.
     可能会威胁到该公司前途的财政危机

双语例句

• Our feet crunched on the frozen snow.
  我们的双脚嘎吱作响地踩着冰冻的雪地。
• Economist Diana Carew crunched the numbers and found that in 2009, earnings for young graduates fell below all other workers 18 years old or older, regardless of education, for the first time.
  经济学家戴安娜•卡鲁仔细研究了大量的数据后发现，2009年，年轻大学毕业生的收入破天荒地低于其他所有18岁及以上的就业者群体（无论受教育程度）。
• It's common knowledge that the software developer is often crunched for time.
  众所周知，软件开发人员在时间方面通常都很紧张。
• Richard crunched into the apple.
  理查德咬了一口苹果。
• By the time computers became widely available, it had 100 years of numbers waiting to be crunched.
  当计算机变得普及时，这项运动已经有了100年的数据等待研究。
• His leather boots crunched on the frozen snow.
  他的皮靴踩在冻雪上嘎吱作响。
• The gravel crunched underfoot as we walked up to the house.
  当我们向房子走去时，脚下的砾石嘎吱作响。
• The hard snow crunched under our feet.
  冻硬的雪在我们脚下发出嘎扎嘎扎的碎裂声。
• All three are trying to make a comeback by pushing into cloud computing, meaning that data are stored and crunched on remote servers.
  这三家公司都努力试图通过云计算卷土重来。这一技术意味数据会在远程服务器上存储和处理。
• We tend to use it crunched under the tongue since it's not very well absorbed, although there are other absorbable forms that can be swallowed.
  我们倾向于使用它的舌头下嘎吱嘎吱因为它不能很好地吸收，虽然也有其他可以吞噬吸收形式。