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 brittle ['britl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 易碎的, 脆弱的, 易坏的

[机] 脆的, 脆性的, 易碎的


  1. Constant stress has made our nerves brittle.
    我们长期处于紧张状态，神经已经吃不消了。
  2. He has a brittle temper.
    他脾气急。
  3. A brittle, flat piece of unleavened bread, eaten especially during Passover.
    未发酵的面包一种犹太人过逾越节时吃的干脆未发酵的面包


brittle
[ noun ]
  1. caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

    2. <noun.food>
[ adj ]
  1. having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped

    2. <adj.all>
    brittle bones
    glass is brittle
    `brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal
  2. lacking warmth and generosity of spirit

    3. <adj.all>
    a brittle and calculating woman
  3. (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured

    4. <adj.all>


Brittle \Brit"tle\, a. [OE. britel, brutel, AS. bryttian to
dispense, fr. bre['o]tan to break; akin to Icel. brytja, Sw.
bryta, Dan. bryde. Cf. {Brickle}.]
Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.

Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece
Of fine-cut crystal. --Cotton.

{Brittle silver ore}, the mineral {stephanite}.

  1. When the chemists suspended in solution the stiff strings of carbon used in Kevlar, they found them scattered randomly, like bunches of brittle, uncooked spaghetti dropped on the floor.
  2. During the first world war Somerset Maugham, based in Switzerland, was turning out brittle marital comedies for the London stage with one hand while sending back to Whitehall secret reports on the activities of German agents in Lausanne with the other.
  3. Obviously his heart was not in it, for the mostly short numbers are relentlessly bright, brittle and banal.
  4. Its vignettes span four centuries in a small community in deepest Wessex, from the Civil War to the bright, brittle world of 1988.
  5. But then reality set in: The materials were brittle, chemically unstable and unable to carry much electricity when fashioned into wires.
  6. Some 24 million Americans, most of them elderly, suffer from osteoporosis, a loss of bone tissue that results in brittle bones, according to the Washington-based National Osteoporosis Foundation.
  7. The superconductors also tend to be brittle and difficult to shape into the strong, flexible wires needed for motors, generators and other devices.
  8. And yet the effect made the play not morbid but bracing. Private Lives, though in modern dress, was presented by Prowse as the brittle retreat into escapism that it indeed is.
  9. These brittle ceramic metals could lead to zero-resistance electric power lines, exotic energy storage devices and other wonders.
  10. Dry, brittle grass and straw need very little to ignite in drought conditions, he said.
  11. Rapid passage work was not cleanly articulated and the hall's brittle acoustics transformed the pounding double octaves into clangorous banging.
  12. Those of us who should have known better, thought this was a pensions framework, which, with improvement, could provide the necessary stability to enable people to receive adequate pensions. That stability proved to be extremely brittle.
  13. Reid said that the sculpture in the CCNV shelter is a synthetic cement-like substance that is brittle.
  14. The difference is how we get there." Andrew Rivers is a bright, witty 10-year-old whose 2-foot-11-inch frame is so brittle he breaks like a china doll.
  15. With the process, engineers can add a resilient polymer like rubber to a plastic, making it less brittle and less likely to crack or shatter.
  16. If very brittle supports were to fail, cooling-water pipes would rupture, releasing radioactivity into the containment building, which regulators have indicated could fail during the early stages of a severe accident.
  17. And he succeeds. Holland Taylor plays the brittle sister with a style and flair for sarcasm that ooze upper class.
  18. The relatively large particle size of the toners results in poor definition, brittle images and a lack of colour brilliance.
  19. So far, the compounds appear too brittle to be made into wire and unable to carry large currents.
  20. Aside from possible problems in forming brittle ceramic into wire, the new superconductor still can't handle enough current to be used in heavy applications such as power plants.
  21. Yamaha has a more brittle tone in the treble that some jazz pianists prefer."
  22. It must shed staff when Germany's traditional consensus with labour has grown brittle.
  23. His responses to the opposition's attacks were brittle and unconvincing. The prime minister's aides can point to opinion polls showing him a far more popular choice in the country than Mr Kinnock.
  24. The brittle, yellowing records include copies of the briefs filed by attorneys in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East _ a panel of judges from 11 countries who tried Japan's military and civilian leaders for war crimes.
  25. Bones become increasingly brittle and deposits build up, putting pressure on the optic and auditory nerves.
  26. The Arab fear and the Western guess is that the regime in Iraq, which appears strong and tough, may be brittle.
  27. Sales of such products as ice cream, mixed nuts and peanut brittle for pooches are beginning to channel money from environmentally conscious customers in the United States to the impoverished inhabitants of the distant forests.
  28. But Robertson says the resulting fuselage is brittle.
  29. As Mr. Metcalf says, "When you get brittle, you break."
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