Lynette: Oh. You didn't have a good time?
Tom: Okay, you know what? Drop the act. I know you gave them cookies.
Lynette: Oh. Who cracked, anyway?
Tom: Porter.
Crack 最常見(jiàn)的6種用法:
1、破裂,裂開(kāi)
例句:The ice cracked as I stepped on it.
我一踩冰就裂了。
Someone's lips are cracked.
嘴唇裂了。
例句:Your lips are dry and cracked.
你的嘴唇干裂了。
2、砸開(kāi),砸碎
Crack eggs
打雞蛋
A: Do you need any help?
你需要幫助嗎?
B: Yeah can you crack two eggs into that green bowl for me.
能幫我打兩個(gè)雞蛋刀那個(gè)綠色的碗里嗎?
Crack a nut
砸開(kāi)堅(jiān)果
3、找到問(wèn)題/難題的解決方法
例句:Let me see if I can crack her password. When's her birthday again?
讓我看看我能不能解開(kāi)她的密碼。她的生日是什么來(lái)著?
Crack a case
破一件案子
例句:The police found a new lead to help them crack the case of the missing girl.
警察們發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個(gè)新的線索來(lái)幫他們來(lái)查明失蹤女孩的案件。
4、(因壓力)崩潰,瓦解,吃不消
例句:This has been a brutal semester. I took 18 credit hours and almost cracked under the pressure.
這個(gè)學(xué)期太殘酷了。我拿了18個(gè)學(xué)分,差點(diǎn)在壓力之下崩潰了。
原文中Lynette說(shuō)的crack,是“招供”的意思,其實(shí)就是:在壓力下吃不消~
例句:They questioned him for days before he cracked.
他被審訊了好多天之后終于招供了。
5、Crack a joke
講笑話
例句:You're always cracking jokes whenever we have a serious issue to discuss. When will you grow up?
你總是在我們討論嚴(yán)肅問(wèn)題的時(shí)候講笑話,你什么時(shí)候才能長(zhǎng)大啊?
6、Crack a smile
露出微笑
例句:I've never seen our supervisor crack a smile. I don't think that guy has a heart.
我從來(lái)沒(méi)見(jiàn)過(guò)我上級(jí)笑,我覺(jué)得那個(gè)人沒(méi)有心的。