核心畫面
Weight pressing down on something until it gives way — the shape collapses, the thing breaks, or it is squeezed flat. The force comes from outside, and it wins.
可以想成有東西從外面重重壓下來，被壓的那一方撐不住了——形狀塌掉、裂開，或被擠成扁扁的一片。這個畫面裡有兩個重點：一…更多收起
可以想成有東西從外面重重壓下來，被壓的那一方撐不住了——形狀塌掉、裂開，或被擠成扁扁的一片。這個畫面裡有兩個重點：一是力量來自外部，二是被壓的東西沒有還手的餘地。英文的 crush 幾乎每個用法都還帶著這股「壓到對方變形、垮掉」的手感，差別只在被壓的是一顆蘋果、一場暴動，還是一個人的信心。原始詞典資料24 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。
crushnoun/kɹʌʃ/
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A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot
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Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
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A violent crowding.
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A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- a crush at a reception
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slangA group or gang.
- Then there was another set who called themselves the "Ragged Thirteen"; and the account says "they looked it." And, like most diggers, this "crush," to quote my authority, could handle the cards a bit.
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A crowd control barrier.
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A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- "Look," said Crabbe, warm orange crush in his hand.
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informalAn infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
- How did you know cause I never told / But you found out / I've got a crush on you
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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informalAn infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- He took his crush out for dinner.
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
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A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
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datedA party or festive function.
- Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.
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The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
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broadcastingmediatelevisionThe situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- black crush; white crush
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lifestylesexualityA paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush is a "gateway fetish"—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time.
crushverb/kɹʌʃ/
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To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- to crush grapes
- Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut
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To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- to crush quartz
- With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.
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To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
- We believe the invasion has reached its peak. The task remaining is to crush it. Our men are confident, the United Nations command is confident, that it will be crushed.
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To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!
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To oppress or grievously burden.
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To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
- the prospect of the Duke's speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels
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To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- an eggshell crushes easily
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To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- She's crushing on him.
- Then walked in / The girl I'm crushin' / And the kid spilled juice / On my Mom's new cushion
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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broadcastingfilmmediaTo give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).
- They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.
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broadcastingmediatelevisionTo make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.
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。