| 词汇 | crumbling |
| 释义 | crumbling present participle ofcrumble crumble verb uk /ˈkrʌm.bəl/ us /ˈkrʌm.bəl/ C2[ I or T ] to break, or cause something to break, into small pieces: （使）粉碎；（使）成碎屑 She nervously crumbled the bread between her fingers.她紧张地在指间捻着面包。 The cliffs on which the houses are built are starting to crumble.上面建有房屋的悬崖开始倾颓瓦解。 [ I ] to become weaker in strength or influence: 衰减；减弱 Support for the government is crumbling.对政府的支持日渐减少。 Tearing and breaking into pieces apart asunder bobble bobbly break into pieces chip crack disintegration dismantle fall to piecesidiom fragment fragmentation rip shred snag snap splinter split sunder tear something apart You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making less strong Examples of crumblingcrumbling In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Yet their ' crumbling ' of the scriptural text, on which they depended for form and structure, lent a digressive and prolix quality to their sermons. The second phase from 1890 to 1930/40 is characterised by the gradual crumbling of the distinction between the deserving and non-deserving poor. She begins the novel in the assumed persona of a young widowed painter who moves into a crumbling pile in an isolated village. The powers of this crumbling ancien régime were the fourth-class postmaster and the stage contractor. Casualties were also frequent when boys became stuck in narrow flues or fell from crumbling chimney stacks. And in 1989, it was only relatively slowly, and late, that the masses entered the political scene, when the regime was visibly crumbling from above. Yet, the respondents connected disrespect and the low morality of youth with the crumbling of the social order. The crumbling economies of the interior forced several million people to emigrate to pampean cities. The eroded cathedral and the crumbling angel can be read as re-statements of this theme. The establishment that it defends might be crumbling, but it can still try to take the insurgents down with it. The crumbling of the atom was to my soul like the crumbling of the whole world. Boundaries of containment were crumbling all around it. This will no longer do: the one-party edifice is crumbling at the foundations. Rather, corporatist institutions in this period could be considered to be a supplement or a reinforcement of crumbling liberal institutions. It is the sound of crumbling masonry that recalls him from his shallow slumber. 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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