crumble的意思|crumble的解释-里氏词典

Crumble \Crum"ble\ (kr[u^]m"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crumbled}
(kr[u^]m"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crumbling}
(kr[u^]m"bl[i^]ng).] [Dim. of crumb, v. t., akin to D.
kruimelen G. kr["u]meln.]
To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints,
And crumble all thy sinews. --Milton.

Crumble \Crum"ble\, v. i.
To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small
fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become
disintegrated; to perish.

If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into
the form of gravel. --Arbuthnot.

The league deprived of its principal supports must soon
crumble to pieces. --Prescott.

'There is more risk of a 5 per cent crumble than a 30 per cent crash,' he maintained. FRANKFURT's Dax index fell 26.23 to a new 1994 closing low of 1,968.72 on the session.
Such pressure is likely to spread, and the cartel system will slowly crumble. That is a mixed blessing.
But the loser certainly is the Israeli political system, which continues to crumble under the weight of too many small parties, too many cynical deals and too little stability to address the serious issues confronting the state.
The state monopoly on radio and television broadcasts began to crumble in 1987 when the Athens municipality set up a radio station, prompting the socialist government at the time to legalize independent radio stations.
But his financial empire began to crumble in December 1988 when he was unable to make full payment on a $150 million loan.
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter and OPEC's largest producer, won't let the pact crumble easily, some traders say.
You'll see her control crumble from time to time.
The other is the historians who "see recent American history as a tale of decline, the story of how a country suffused with pride betrayed its ideals, lost a war, and allowed its economy to wither or crumble." He is on target in both cases.
Earthquakes travel as waves through the soil and rock, and buildings unable to move with the ground crumble as the tremors become intense.
"This petition is going to crumble the house of cards the state's case was built on," Miami lawyer Ellis Rubin said shortly before filing the petition.
His success defies earlier predictions that his government would crumble after the Soviet troop withdrawal.
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose policies allowed the Soviet client governments of Eastern Europe to crumble, was greeted Friday in Bonn with a hero's welcome.
"After Ceausescu's ouster, the Communist Party will likely crumble, unlike in Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany where a degree of divergent views was tolerated," said a Romanian exile at the U.S.-financed Radio Free Europe radio station.
The old civil rights agenda is beginning to crumble at the core.
He said classes would go on because routine was important "when things begin to crumble.
Director Costa-Gavras, known for such political films as "Z" and "Missing," has watched his plans for a movie involving Eastern European characters crumble like the Berlin Wall.
The lath walls and heavy plaster would crumble if removed, she said.
But market watchers remained cautious, warning that the market could crumble today if inflation data for March are stronger than expected.
But less than two years later, the LDP started to crumble, and dissent rose to unprecedented heights.
Even if it did, he calculated, President Bush's resolve would crumble under domestic pressure once casualties began to mount.
In short, institutions of learning crumble from within, not without.
Once competition gets its foot in the door, the very rationale for regulation begins to crumble.
The 71-year-old American conductor is the latest in a series of world-renowned musicians to travel to Berlin since the wall began to crumble on Nov. 9.
Before communism began to crumble, Walesa had built the Solidarity movement into a broad-based anti-communist social consensus which united Polish intellectuals, workers and the Catholic Church.
Forty-one years later, the Soviet Union under Mikhail S. Gorbachev has cut loose Warsaw Pact states it once kept in the fold by force and Comecon will thus crumble if the trade relationships within it are not reforged.
Interest rates have doubled since May 1989, the Tokyo stock market fell 39% last year, and land prices are beginning to crumble.

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