Crack

(noun.) a usually brief attempt; 'he took a crack at it'; 'I gave it a whirl'.

(noun.) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive.

(noun.) a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; 'there was a crack in the mirror'.

(noun.) a sudden sharp noise; 'the crack of a whip'; 'he heard the cracking of the ice'; 'he can hear the snap of a twig'.

(noun.) a long narrow opening.

(verb.) break into simpler molecules by means of heat; 'The petroleum cracked'.

(verb.) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking.

(verb.) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; 'The glass cracked when it was heated'.

(verb.) cause to become cracked; 'heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair'.

(verb.) break partially but keep its integrity; 'The glass cracked'.

(verb.) tell spontaneously; 'crack a joke'.

(verb.) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; 'The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler'.

(verb.) make a very sharp explosive sound; 'His gun cracked'.

(verb.) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; 'she cracked my password'; 'crack a safe'.

校对:弗恩

• I'll crack _my_ whip about their ear'n, afore they bring it to that, though, said Hiram, while Mr. Solomon, shaking his bridle, moved onward. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• When this crack closes no smoke can reach them, and if we hasten to extinguish the flames I believe they will be safe. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I didn't think there was a soul in England who didn't know Godfrey Staunton, the crack three-quarter, Cambridge, Blackheath, and five Internationals. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I'll crack ye over, if ye don't mind! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Maurice, leaning forward with a sigh, took a handful of nuts, which he proceeded to crack in a listless fashion. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The remaining crack was not over an inch in width a moment later. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Of all the imperfections (not considering glaring cracks or nicks), carbon spots are the most discernible. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We have never seen ice better preserved through a long and hot summer than in a board shanty with only one thickness of siding, and that full of cracks and crevices. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• If we take a hot dish and put ice cream in it, it cracks because the dish when hot has expanded. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If a gentle breeze is blowing, a barely perceptible opening of a window will give the needed amount, even if there are no additional drafts of fresh air into the room through cracks. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Lor, what cracks that off hoss has in his heels! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The unsightly cracks and humps in cement floors are sometimes due to the expansion resulting from heat (Fig. 5). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Of all these things I could have told the peculiarities, numbered the flaws or cracks, like any _clairvoyante_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The only person in my neighbourhood, whose face I had ever seen before, was an old, cracked sort of a general, his name I have forgotten. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I suppose, however, he had this move in his mind—he was always half-cracked—and then considered her provided for. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• They had always cracked in other wars. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The more cracked it was, the more Mrs General varnished it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Spects they's gwine to trade ye off with a lot o' cracked tea-pots and sich like! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• On hearing that I had been once more discovered I started so that the railing against which I leaned cracked again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Then the bridge blew and one horse snapped his halter when he rose and jerked his head at the cracking roar and he went off through the trees. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemianism. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The wind howled dismally all night, and strange cracking and groaning noises sounded here, there, and everywhere in the empty house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In a day or two this becomes a deeper brown, and more or less disorganized, cracking, either round the edge, or right across the center, so that it can be readily peeled away. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• With that second shot came the cracking boom of grenades from around the corner below the bridge. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He had rushed down the stairs and flung across the street in a minute--the yellow postilion was cracking his whip gently. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The boom was a sharp crack that widened in the cracking and on the hillside he saw a small fountain of earth rise with a plume of gray smoke. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

整理:利亚