Crumble

(verb.) break or fall apart into fragments; 'The cookies crumbled'; 'The Sphinx is crumbling'.

(verb.) fall apart; 'the building crumbled after the explosion'; 'Negotiations broke down'.

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• Sand should abound in the clay in a certain proportion, or be mixed therewith, otherwise the clay, whether burned or unburned, will crumble. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is a crude and largely unconscious answer to certain immediate needs, and without those needs its power would crumble. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• She measures time, not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise, and prosper and crumble to ruin. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I'll crumble you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The ridges thrown to this side and to that, now crumble in and close behind the last plough as it passes on, for all are following to the Guillotine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• When it was evacuated (as we shall see further on), the Confederacy at once began to crumble and fade away. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• By dint of hard scrambling he finally straddled the top, but some loose stones crumbled away and fell with a crash into the court within. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In other words, it was the kinetic energy of the rolls that crumbled up the rocks with pile-driver effect. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She crumbled it, and bending over his shoulder, put the crumbs into his hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The fire had crumbled down to greyness, and one of the lamps made a gurgling appeal for attention. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• All broken, and worm-eaten, and crumbling to dust at the edges. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In the Sahara Desert much crumbling of the rock into sand has been caused by the intense heat of the day followed by the sharp frost of night. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• That was one regiment which had been eliminated from Lee's force by this crumbling process. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Rivers flowed back towards their sources; peaks and lofty mountains where countless trees had grown for ages rolled crumbling to the earth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She remained long in her sitting-room, where the embers were crumbling to cold grey, and the lamp paled under its gay shade. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• His hopes and his ambitions were all crumbling about him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• On these stones that are crumbling away, the guide said, the Saviour sat and rested before taking up the cross. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• After a time he brought the mass to Edison, and said: There's something wrong about this, for it crumbles even after manipulating it with my fingers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Much crust, if you please--much crisp crust, my dear, that melts and crumbles delicious in the mouth. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Granite quarried anywhere in which felspar predominates is not well adapted for buildings, as it cracks and crumbles down in a few years. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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