crackle

/ˈkrækl/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈkrækl/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈkra-kəl/ (ame, mw) · /ˈkræk.əl/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈkræk.əl/ (ame, ipa)

crackle — 動詞

  • cracklepresent simple I / you / we / they
  • crackleshe / she / it
  • crackledpast simple
  • crackling-ing form

1. to produce many quick dry popping sounds, like wood in a fire, hot oil, paper, o

1.動詞不及物B2
釋義

劈啪作響

發出連續短脆聲

to produce many quick dry popping sounds, like wood in a fire, hot oil, paper, or a noisy radio signal.

例句

The wood in the stove crackled as Dewi added another dry log.

Dewi 又添了一根乾木頭後,爐子裡的木柴劈啪作響。

firewood as subject making repeated sharp sounds

Oil crackled in the pan when Kian dropped in the onion slices.

Kian 把洋蔥片丟進去時,鍋裡的油劈啪作響。

cooking context: hot oil as subject

同義詞
  • sizzle

    used more for wet cooking sounds in a pan

  • rustle

    describes a softer brushing sound from leaves or cloth

  • pop

    often suggests one short explosive sound rather than many repeated ones

文法句型

[thing/material] crackles

crackle with static

用法筆記

Usually intransitive. The subject is often firewood, paper, oil, leaves, frost, or equipment giving off static.

2. if paint, glaze, glass, or dry mud crackles, tiny lines spread across the surfac

2.動詞及物 / 不及物C1
釋義

龜裂

表面布滿細小裂紋

if paint, glaze, glass, or dry mud crackles, tiny lines spread across the surface; if something crackles it, it causes that pattern to appear.

例句

By spring, the thick paint on the garden bench had crackled badly.

到了春天,花園長椅上的厚漆已經嚴重龜裂了。

intransitive with paint as subject

Heat from the lamp crackled the varnish on the small wooden box.

檯燈的熱度讓那個小木盒上的亮漆龜裂了。

transitive: heat crackles a surface

同義詞
  • craze

    used especially for fine cracks in glaze or glass

  • crack

    is more general and can suggest larger or fewer lines

文法句型

[surface] crackles

heat/sun crackles [surface]

用法筆記

Often used for old paint, pottery glaze, varnish, or dried ground. Unlike sense 1, this sense describes a visible pattern, not a sound.

crackle — 名詞