brittle
a. 易碎的, 脆弱的, 易坏的 [机] 脆的, 脆性的, 易碎的
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教材释义与例句
易碎的，脆弱的；易生气的
释义与例句
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1.
A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
不可数As a child, my favorite candy was peanut brittle.
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Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
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To become brittle.
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To gut.
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Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
易碎的
易损坏的
Near-synonym: crackly
Cast iron is much more brittle than forged iron.
A diamond is hard but brittle.
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Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
Shortbread is my favorite cold pastry, yet being so brittle it crumbles easily, and a lot goes to waste.
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Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.
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Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
What a brittle person! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
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Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
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Characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
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词源
From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.
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