crush

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复数: crushes;第三人称单数: crushes;过去式: crushed;过去分词: crushed;现在分词: crushing;

1. 谐音“垮了兮！垮啦兮！”

crush 压碎

拟声词。

crush: crush: [14] The emergence of crush is something of a mystery. English borrowed it from Old French croissir, but it is not clear where Old French got it from. Some consider it to be of Romance origin, postulating a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *cruscīre to account for it, but others suggest that Old French may have borrowed it from Germanic, pointing to the similarity of Middle Low German krossen ‘crush’.
crush (v.): mid-14c., from Old French cruissir (Modern French écraser), variant of croissir "to gnash (teeth), crash, break," perhaps from Frankish *krostjan "to gnash" (cognates: Gothic kriustan, Old Swedish krysta "to gnash"). Figurative sense of "to humiliate, demoralize" is c. 1600. Related: Crushed; crushing. Italian crosciare, Catalan cruxir, Spanish crujirare "to crack" are Germanic loan-words.
crush (n.): 1590s, "act of crushing," from crush (v.). Meaning "thick crowd" is from 1806. Sense of "person one is infatuated with" is first recorded 1884; to have a crush on is from 1913.

1. Put both vegetables into a bowl and crush with a potato masher.: 把这两样蔬菜都放进一个碗里，然后用捣土豆器把它们捣碎。

2. Franklin and his thirteen-year-old son somehow got separated in the crush.: 富兰克林和他13岁的儿子在人群中被挤散了。

4. The government is trying to crush a secessionist movement.: 政府正试图镇压一场分离运动。

5. Three people were asphyxiated in the crush for last week's train.: 在上周的火车撞车事故中有3人窒息死亡。