| 单词 | crust |
| 释义 | crust (once / 546 pages) 1nv 2n The crust is a hard layer that forms on the outside of something, like a loaf of bread. Little kids often like their sandwiches with the crust cut off. You’ve probably eaten lots of crusts — bread crust, pie crust — any food that’s hard on the outside and soft on the inside has a crust. Crust is also a verb meaning “to form a hard outer layer.” Crusting happens with more than just food, like when a layer of dirt crusts your clothes after a romp in the mud. The Earth has a hard crust too. Little kids don’t like to eat that either, usually. WORD FAMILYcrust: crusted, crusting, crustlike, crusts, crusty, encrust+/crusty: crustier, crustiest, crustily/encrust: encrustation, encrusted, encrusting, encrusts/encrustation: encrustations USAGE EXAMPLESThe outside crust was flaky, and inside, big chunks of chicken were swimming in a mildly spiced Thai curry. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) He par-bakes the crust, cools it, adds toppings and bakes it for about 2½ minutes. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) The meat arrives with a textured, almost brittle outer bark, like the crust on a really great loaf of sourdough. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1 1n a hard outer layer that covers something Syn|Hypo|Hyper encrustation, incrustation calculus, tartar, tophus an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums cover, covering, natural covering a natural object that covers or envelops 2n the outer layer of the Earth Syn|Hypo|Hyper Earth's crust horst a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land crustal plate, platea rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly layer a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another 3v form a crust or form into a crust 2The bread crusted in the oven Hyper change surface undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface n the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties Syn|Hypo|Hyper cheekiness, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence chutzpa, chutzpah, hutzpah (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity discourtesy, rudeness a manner that is rude and insulting |
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