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Think of something hard and brittle put under stress until it suddenly gives way with a sharp 'snap' — a thin line opens up in it, or it breaks apart. That single moment holds two things at once: the SOUND (the sharp snap) and the BREAK (the thin split line). Almost every meaning of 'crack' grows out of one or both halves of that moment.

可以想成一塊又硬又脆的東西被施壓，壓到某一刻突然「啪」地一聲讓步——表面裂出一條細線，或乾脆斷開。這一瞬間其實同時包…更多收起可以想成一塊又硬又脆的東西被施壓，壓到某一刻突然「啪」地一聲讓步——表面裂出一條細線，或乾脆斷開。這一瞬間其實同時包了兩樣東西：那個「啪」的尖銳聲響，以及那條裂開的細縫。'crack' 幾乎所有意思，都是從這一瞬間的「聲音」或「裂縫」這兩半長出來的。

原始詞典資料57 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Crackname

  • 1

    A surname

crackverb詞源 1/kɹæk/

  • 1

    To form cracks.

    • It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
  • 2

    To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.

    • When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
  • 3

    To become debilitated by psychological pressure.

    • Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
  • 4

    To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.

    • When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
  • 5

    To make a cracking sound.

    • The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
  • 6

    To change rapidly in register.

    • His voice cracked with emotion.
  • 7

    To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.

    • His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
  • 8

    To make a sharply humorous comment.

    • "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
另外 18 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To realize that one is transgender.

    • She cracked at age 22 and came out to her friends and family over the next few months.
  • 10

    To make a crack or cracks in.

    • The ball cracked the window.
  • 11

    To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.

    • You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
  • 12

    To strike forcefully.

    • She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
    • I cracked myhead on a beam.
  • 13

    To open slightly.

    • Could you please crack the window?
  • 14

    To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.

    • They managed to crack him on the third day.
  • 15

    To solve a difficult problem.

    • I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
    • "[...] The key to battery trains is more the ability to charge quickly. If you can do that, you've cracked it."
  • 16

    To overcome a security system or component.

    • It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.
    • They finally cracked the code.
  • 17

    To cause to make a sharp sound.

    • to crack a whip
    • Hershell cracked his knuckles, a nervous habit that drove Inez crazy[…]
  • 18

    To tell (a joke).

    • The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
  • 19

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.

    • Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
  • 20

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.

    • That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
    • Nobody really knows how much actual damage cracking does to the software companies. But as the industry rolls apprehensively toward the uncertain future of an ever-more frictionless electronic marketplace, almost everyone thinks piracy will increase.
  • 21

    informalTo open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

    • I'd love to crack open a beer.
    • Let's crack a tube and watch the game.
  • 22

    obsoleteTo brag; to boast.

    • To whom the boaſter, that all knights did blot, / With proud diſdaine did ſcornefull anſwere make; […] And further did vncomely ſpeaches crake.
    • And Æthiopes of their ſweet complexion crack.
  • 23

    archaicTo be ruined or impaired; to fail.

    • The credit[…]of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.
  • 24

    To barely reach or attain (a measurement or extent).

    • An underground band that never cracked the Hot 100
    • IQ (Intelligence Quotient), number said to measure an individual's intelligence that many experts who clearly didn't crack 125 say overlooks important attributes such as creativity and social skills.
  • 25

    To have sex with a female or feminine person for the first time, especially penetrative sex.

    • Did you hear about Josh cracking Stacy in the school hall?
    • […] they end up thinking that they can escape the pain of incel-dom by “cracking” a femboy […]
  • 26

    To have sex with a female or feminine person for the first time, especially penetrative sex.

    • i shifted to crack him. i cracked him real good in my dr.

cracknoun詞源 1/kɹæk/

  • 1

    A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

    • A large crack had formed in the roadway.
  • 2

    A narrow opening.

    • We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
    • Open the door a crack.
  • 3

    slangA sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.

    • I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.
  • 4

    slangA flaw, weakness, setback, or insecurity.

    • It’s a fact all those cracks they can hold you back / But there’s a better way (there’s a better way) / Just keep on pushing, keep on pushing, keep on pushing / For a brighter day
  • 5

    slangCrack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack pipe.

    • crack head
    • And even as a crack fiend, Mama / You always was a black queen, Mama
  • 6

    slangCrack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack pipe.

    • kitty crack
    • When did naming foods after a powerful narcotic become a thing?[…]Now the mean streets of New York are rife with “salted crack caramel” ice cream, “pistachio crack” brittle, “crack steak” sandwiches, and “tuna on crack.”
  • 7

    The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.

    • The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.
  • 8

    Any sharp sound.

    • The crack of the bat hitting the ball.
    • She broke to love in the opening game, only for Bartoli to hit straight back in game two, which was interrupted by a huge crack of thunder that made Lisicki jump and prompted nervous laughter from the 15,000 spectators.
另外 19 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A sharp, resounding blow.

    • Mrs. Perkins, who has not been for some weeks on speaking terms with Mrs. Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins' having "fetched" young Piper "a crack," renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion.
  • 10

    slangAn attempt at something.

    • I'd like to take a crack at that game.
  • 11

    vulgarslangThe vagina.

    • I rattled off more silly nonsense, all the while clutching her firmly, pushing my fingers into her gluey crack.
  • 12

    vulgarslangThe space between the buttocks.

    • Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.
  • 13

    Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.

    • The party was great crack.
    • He's good crack. [It's nice having him around]
  • 14

    A chat.

    • And when he come down in the evenings, he’d drop in every night to have a crack wi’ Old Bob.
  • 15

    Business; events; news.

    • What's the crack?
    • What's this crack about a possible merger?
  • 16

    computingengineeringmathematicsA program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.

    • Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?
  • 17

    datedgeographyhydrodynamicshydrologyAn expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.

  • 18

    Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.

  • 19

    The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

    • And let vs (Polidore) though now our voyces / Haue got the manniſh cracke, ſing him to'th'ground
  • 20

    archaicA mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.

    • He has a crack.
  • 21

    archaicA crazy or crack-brained person.

    • On the London Cries […] I have lately received a letter from some very odd fellow upon this subject […] ‘Sir, […], but I cannot get the parliament to listen to me ; who look upon me, forsooth, as a crack and a projector […] I am, SIR, &c. / RALPH CROTCHET’
  • 22

    obsoleteA boast; boasting.

    • Slaunderous reproches,and fowle infamies, / Leaſings,backbytings,and vaineglorious crakes
    • D'ye hear wha's coming to cow yere cracks?
  • 23

    obsoleteBreach of chastity.

    • But thinke her bond of Chaſtity quite crack'd, I hauing 'tane the forfeyt.
  • 24

    obsoleteA boy, generally a pert, lively boy.

    • The ſame Sir Iohn, the very ſame: I ſaw him breake Scogaan's Head at the Court-Gate, when hee was a Crack, not thus high: […]
    • Indeed la, tis a noble childe. / - A Cracke Madam.
  • 25

    datedslangA brief time; an instant; a jiffy.

    • I'll be with you in a crack.
  • 26

    datedThe act of hitting on someone.

    • The eyes of my sisters who fear my crack^* [footnote] Before the popularization of the term "crack" as a drug, its common usage in the Black community referred to men publicly cruising and approaching women.
  • 27

    obsoleteDry firewood.

crackadj詞源 2/kɹæk/

  • 1

    Highly trained and competent.

    • Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.
  • 2

    Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

    • She's a crack shot with that rifle.
    • Every scratch in the scheme was a gnarled oak in the forest of difficulty, and I went on cutting them down, one after another, with such vigour, that in three or four months I was in a condition to make an experiment on one of our crack speakers in the Commons.

cracknoun詞源 2/kɹæk/

  • 1

    obsoleteOne who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse.

    • Stanton had at one time a reputation for inaccessibility, but that has long since become a thing of the past, […] So that the gallops of the cracks' can, in most cases, be regularly watched and their daily doings truthfully chronicled.
    • 1st Gent. What dost think, Jockey? / 2nd Gent. The crack o' the field's against you.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。