crunch

1 The crunch came during my second term when I was exactly nine and a half, and it happened during evening Prep.

2 The deflation would get faster and faster, the universe would get hotter and hotter, and it would eventually end in a backward big bang: the big crunch.

3 The skyblue Plymouth turned in at the gate and crunched over the gravel driveway crushing small shells and shattering little red and yellow pebbles.

4 The credit crunch may have sparked the crisis.

信贷紧缩或许是引发危机的根源。

5 Karaj in the wintertime is a snowbound city, and cars driving on the mountain road would often crunch into potholes and drop transmission parts or hubcaps.

6 Snow crunched beneath his feet, but the doe made no noise as she passed through the trees, for she was nothing but light.

7 Two other centaurs galloped over, but mine caught the treat and started eating, crunching loudly.

8 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。

9 Accompanied by the crunch of footsteps on the dry undergrowth of the forest, the creepy sounds continued, getting louder as the people got closer.

10 The post fell away to one side, and the Plymouth crunched against the building.

11 I loved the sound of the leaves crunching under my shoes and the smell of wood burning.

12 The kabbalah was much more than number crunching; it was a tradition so mystical that some scholars say that it bears a striking resemblance to Hinduism.

13 We wandered, necks craned, bits of concrete and broken tile crunching beneath our feet.

14 Their feet splashed and crunched through the frozen marsh.

15 Rashid shook his head, adjusted the bag on his shoulder, and walked across the grass that crunched under his feet.

16 I run my hands along the trunks of the trees as I walk, listening to the golden crunch of the leaves under my feet.

17 The grass crunched quietly, as if even the earth was frightened of where I was headed.

18 I held up the spear-shaped cartilage in the breast bone, which most people don’t eat, and bit down with a satisfying crunch.

19 “I still want to see the Sistine Chapel,” she says while we walk, her footsteps assertive as she crunches through the snow.

20 When I glimpsed the flash of their headlights and heard their tires crunching on the street, I ducked into whatever deep shadow I could find and tried to hold my breath.

1 处理

treatment conduct concentration take see process cover Field deal action speak manage treat handle touch dress hack cope confront dispose transact lace into get shot of handling disposal manipulation address approach deliver sort capture tackle navigate negotiate deal with go beyond come at work through attend to sort out dispose of engage with see about straighten out wade through

2 不足

low short slim shy inadequate insufficient scarce slender deficient wanting scant measly skimpy lacking scanty poorly ill want weakness deficiency shortage scarcity inadequacy dearth under- under fail lack be light on

3 碎屑

rubbishing rubbishy mammock chip patch trash scrap fragment lumber rubbish crumb raffle scum chipping ruck detritus offal dross thrum riffraff oddment scrag culch odd-come-short trash television

4 摊牌

declaration face-off declare showdown

5 踏碎

stamp tread

6 关键

issue pivot crux juncture the great divide

7 危急关头

crisis inferno exigency when the chips are down

8 困境

fix corner trouble difficulty trap mess mesh dilemma strait embarrassment adversity plight predicament quagmire morass logjam a hornets' nest a tight corner a tight spot serbonian extreme soup jam scrape pickle jackpot lurch stalemate cul-de-sac hobble exigence toughie toughy quag double-bind

9 发嘎吱声

crump squeal

10 仰卧起坐

sit-up

11 嘎扎嘎扎地咀嚼

craunch

12 嘎吱声

squeak creak scrunch squelch

13 短缺

famine go short short stringent pushed need lack poverty shortage want for in short supply

14 症结

crux sticking point the villain of the piece

15 关键时刻

point crisis cruncher a parting of the ways crossroads zero hour head zero juncture when the chips are down the moment of truth

16 危机

head pass emergency crisis conjuncture the great divide change of a tide crisic critical push edge clutch pinch flap precipice Dunkirk razor-edge the change of tide juncture climacteric zero hour turning point breaking point great divide

17 至关重要的

crucial mission-critical pivotal all-important

18 嘎吱嘎吱地嚼

scrunch

19 险境

peril

20 紧要关头

pinch cruncher moment of truth the last minute the last moment in the nick of time crisis clutch conjuncture critical moment

21 压碎

stamp mash squelch scrunch crumple up crush down

22 磨碎

stamp grate bray

23 碎裂声

crash

24 咬

bite Nip eat grit grate gnaw rodent gnawing gnash nip strike tooth

25 嘎吱作响

creaky squeak creak scrunch

26 发出嘎吱声

squeal scrunch crash

27 缺钱

strapped hard up

28 大声咀嚼

scrunch

29 转捩点

crisis watershed climacteric solstice

30 嚼

manducate rodent champ chomp chaw mouth chew masticate