crunch
crunch 英 [krʌntʃ] 美 [krʌntʃ]
n. 咬碎，咬碎声；扎扎地踏 vt. 压碎；嘎扎嘎扎的咬嚼；扎扎地踏过 vi. 嘎吱作响地咀嚼；嘎吱嘎吱地踏过
进行时:crunching 过去式:crunched 过去分词:crunched 第三人称单数:crunches 名词复数:crunches
- When you crunch something, you grind it into tiny pieces, often with your teeth. You can also crunch whole spices into smaller bits with a mortar and pestle.
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- n. 咬碎，咬碎声；扎扎地踏
- vt. 压碎；嘎扎嘎扎的咬嚼；扎扎地踏过
- vi. 嘎吱作响地咀嚼；嘎吱嘎吱地踏过
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1. The administration's policy seems to crunch the economy in order to combat inflation.
政府的政策似乎是紧缩经济以免通货膨胀。
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2. We have good intentions and plan to come back after the time crunch at hand subsides, but we seldom do that.
当紧迫的时间稍微缓和之后，我们应该有很好的目的和计划返回来检查，但是我们却很少这样做。
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3. But when all those factors are put together and the economists crunch the numbers, it ends up being a net positive, but a small one.
“但当所有那些因素放在一起并且经济学家处理了大量数字时，它最终的结局是确实有一点，但很小的一点”。
- crunch (v.) 1814, from craunch (1630s), probably of imitative origin. Related: Crunched; crunching. The noun is 1836, from the verb; the sense of "critical moment" was popularized 1939 by Winston Churchill, who had used it in his 1938 biography of Marlborough.
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