| 词汇 | brittle |
| 释义 | brittle adjective uk /ˈbrɪt.əl/ us /ˈbrɪt̬.əl/ brittleadjective (EASILY DAMAGED)delicate and easily broken: 易碎的，脆的 As you get older your bones become increasingly brittle.随着年龄增长，人的骨头变得越来越脆。 The pond was covered in a brittle layer of ice.池塘上结了薄薄的一层冰。 Synonyms breakable delicate(EASILY DAMAGED) fragile frail easily broken breakablePut breakable ornaments on a high shelf when young children come to visit. fragileSmall mammal bones are extremely fragile. delicateThe plant has delicate white flowers. brittleThe ground was a carpet of dried leaves and brittle twigs. weakThe floors were uneven and too weak to support the heavy equipment. easily destroyed, ended, or made to fail: The team's confidence is brittle after a poor performance in the World Cup. Our support system is becoming increasingly brittle. a brittle peace/ceasefire Synonym fragile Fragile and breakable breakable cobwebby crumbly delicacy delicate delicate operation dodgy fissile flaky flimsily flimsiness flimsy fragile fragility frail friable ramshackle rickety tenuous tenuously You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Weakness and vulnerability Dangers and threats brittleadjective (BEHAVIOUR)appearing to be happy or confident, but actually nervous, weak, or likely to change mood suddenly: The player has a notoriously brittle temperament. The character she plays is successful but emotionally brittle. She greeted him with a brittle smile. A brittle voice or laugh sounds sharp and slightly nervous: 不友好的;冷淡的 She gave a brittle laugh and turned away.她冷笑了一声，转身走了。 His voice was so brittle it seemed about to crack completely. Anxious and worried (all) hot and botheredidiom aflutter agitated angsty anxious frightened fuss get in a sweatidiom goosey grim preoccupied prey prey on sb's mindidiom prey on something queasily worried worriedly worrier worrywart wound up You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Describing qualities of the human voice brittle noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈbrɪt.əl/ us /ˈbrɪt̬.əl/ hard toffee(= a type of sweet made from butter and sugar) that contains nuts: They gave us pieces of gorgeous almond brittle coated in dark chocolate. Try making nut brittles with pecans or hazelnuts. See also peanut brittle Top the puddings with crushed almond brittle. I love this Greek-style nut brittle. My mother made brittles for Christmas and special occasions. They sell handcrafted truffles, brittles, creams, and fudges. Sweets almond paste baking chocolate barley sugar bitter chocolate bittersweet chocolate confectionery cooking chocolate cotton candy couverture cracknel liquorice lollipop lolly marchpane marron glacé snow cone sourball spun sugar stick of rock sugared almond brittle | American Dictionarybrittle adjective us/ˈbrɪt̬·əl/ delicate and easily broken: As you get older your bones become increasingly brittle. Examples of brittlebrittle Changes have propagated through benthic invertebrates, with the macrofauna changing from echinoids and large clams to opportunistic brittle stars and polychaetes. However, at the low temperatures of space, brittle failure is more likely to occur. From studies of crevasse opening and closure, he contemplated both brittle and ductile aspects of ice deformation. Modelling of brittle and fatigue damage for elastic materials by the growth of microvoids. On the larger scale, observational studies of brittle and ductile deformation are included. How pressure solution creep and fracturing processes interact in the upper crust to make it behave in both a brittle and viscous manner. The transition from brittle faulting to cataclastic flow in porous sandstone: mechanical definition. Several brittle extensional micro-faults bear a ductile overprint expressed in the folding of both foliation and fault surfaces. Only limited evidence is preserved for ductile and brittle thrustsense movements along this portion of the fault zone. Where the pegmatites and alteration zones are cut, they show brittle offset. To the southwest and west it is bounded by ductile-to-brittle shear belts and brittle faults. Non-scarified seeds remained apparently unchanged physically, being hard and brittle when subsequently scarified; therefore, it is unlikely that slow imbibition occurred during incubation. Questioning, philosophic enquiry is replaced by brittle assertions of dogma. The dry samples of this facies give a soapy feel and are brittle, having conchoidal-like fractures. The western thrusts, in general, have a ductile character while brittle behaviour is observed in a few thrusts of the eastern tract. See all examples of brittle These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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