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v. 嘎吱嘎吱地嚼；（使）发出碎裂声；嘎吱嘎吱地行进；（大量地）处理（数字）
n. 压碎声，碎裂声；<非正式>危急关头，艰难局面（the crunch）；不足，短缺；仰卧起坐
复数crunches
第三人称单数crunches
现在分词crunching
过去式crunched
过去分词crunched
crunch /krʌntʃ/ CET6+ TEM8 [ crunching crunched crunches ]
及物动词/不及物动词 If you crunch something hard, such as a sweet, or if it crunches, you crush it noisily between your teeth. 嘎吱嘎吱地咬嚼 (某物); 发出嘎吱声
She sucked an ice cube into her mouth, and crunched it loudly.
她把一冰块儿含在嘴里，并嘎吱嘎吱地大声嚼起来。
及物动词/不及物动词 If something crunches or if you crunch it, it makes a breaking or crushing noise, for example, when you step on it. 嘎吱嘎吱地碾或踩 (某物); 发出嘎吱声
A piece of china crunched under my foot.
一块瓷片在我的脚下发出嘎吱的响声。
可数名词 Crunch is also a noun. 嘎吱嘎吱的声音
She heard the crunch of tyres on the gravel driveway.
她听到车胎碾在碎石铺成的私家车道上发出的嘎吱声。
不及物动词 If you crunch across a surface made of very small stones, you move across it causing it to make a crunching noise. 嘎吱嘎吱地踩
I crunched across the gravel.
我从石子上嘎吱嘎吱地踩过。
及物动词 To crunch numbers means to do a lot of calculations using a calculator or computer. (用计算器或电脑) 运算
I pored over the books with great enthusiasm, often crunching the numbers until 1:00 a.m.
我饶有兴趣地细读这些书，常常运算到凌晨1：00。
单数型名词 You can refer to an important time or event, for example, when an important decision has to be made, as the crunch. 关键时刻
He can rely on my support when the crunch comes.
在关键时刻他会得到我的支持的。
可数名词 A situation in which a business or economy has very little money can be referred to as a crunch. 财政困难
The U.N. is facing a cash crunch.
联合国正面临着资金短缺。
the sound of something crunching
he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path
a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
an end-of-the year crunch ; a financial crunch
the act of crushing
同义词： crush / compaction
嘎吱音
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crunchy 易碎的；发嘎吱嘎吱声的
The crunch came when she returned from America.
她从美国回来以后，危机就出现了。
Iceland, the first nation to go bankrupt in the credit crunch.
冰岛是第一个在信贷紧缩中破产的国家。
There is absolutely no credit crunch on the main streets of small businesses.
在小企业的主要街道上绝对不存在信贷危机。
Hungary was the first European Union member state to receive international financing to avoid bankruptcy during the global credit crunch.
VOA : standard.2010.05.29
So if you have more conceptual oriented questions, you can absolutely bring them to office hours, but just realize there's always a crunch time wise, especially on Wednesday's and Thursday's.
如果有很多概念方面的问题，你完全可以把它们带到办公时间来，但是请认识到，总是有零零碎碎的时间的，特别是在周三和周四。
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so I, you know, I enjoy that sort of intense effort, the sort of adrenaline that goes with the crunch
我就喜欢那种高强度的努力，那种肾上腺素增长的感觉。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 电脑图片的魅力
Some countries are blaming the United States for sparking the economic crisis through the deregulation of its financial scene - a move that led to a credit crunch and sparked an economic recession.
VOA : standard.2009.04.01
The Fed is trying to prevent the credit crunch from turning into a complete credit freeze.
Taking advantage of those anomalies proved difficult at the height of the credit crunch.
And so they're hoping that when crunch time comes, the U.S. will be there for them.