Lynette: Oh. You didn't have a good time?
Tom: Okay, you know what? Drop the act. I know you gave them cookies.
Lynette: Oh. Who cracked, anyway?
Tom: Porter.
Crack 最常見的6種用法:
1、破裂,裂開
例句:The ice cracked as I stepped on it.
我一踩冰就裂了。
Someone's lips are cracked.
嘴唇裂了。
例句:Your lips are dry and cracked.
你的嘴唇干裂了。
2、砸開,砸碎
Crack eggs
打雞蛋
A: Do you need any help?
你需要幫助嗎?
B: Yeah can you crack two eggs into that green bowl for me.
能幫我打兩個雞蛋刀那個綠色的碗里嗎?
Crack a nut
砸開堅果
3、找到問題/難題的解決方法
例句:Let me see if I can crack her password. When's her birthday again?
讓我看看我能不能解開她的密碼。她的生日是什么來著?
Crack a case
破一件案子
例句:The police found a new lead to help them crack the case of the missing girl.
警察們發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個新的線索來幫他們來查明失蹤女孩的案件。
4、(因壓力)崩潰,瓦解,吃不消
例句:This has been a brutal semester. I took 18 credit hours and almost cracked under the pressure.
這個學期太殘酷了。我拿了18個學分,差點在壓力之下崩潰了。
原文中Lynette說的crack,是“招供”的意思,其實就是:在壓力下吃不消~
例句:They questioned him for days before he cracked.
他被審訊了好多天之后終于招供了。
5、Crack a joke
講笑話
例句:You're always cracking jokes whenever we have a serious issue to discuss. When will you grow up?
你總是在我們討論嚴肅問題的時候講笑話,你什么時候才能長大啊?
6、Crack a smile
露出微笑
例句:I've never seen our supervisor crack a smile. I don't think that guy has a heart.
我從來沒見過我上級笑,我覺得那個人沒有心的。