1.[i][t]（使）破碎，成碎屑to break or break sth into very small pieces
Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.这种糕饼用米粉做不那么容易碎。
Crumble the cheese over the salad.把干酪弄成碎屑洒在色拉上。
2.[i]坍塌；损坏；崩裂if a building or piece of landis crumbling , parts of it are breaking off
buildings crumbling into dust渐渐坍塌的建筑物
crumbling stonework不断破裂的石制建筑
The cliff is gradually crumbling away.峭壁正在逐渐崩坍。
3.[i]（开始渐渐）衰退，衰弱；崩溃；瓦解；消亡to begin to fail or get weaker or to come to an end
a crumbling business/relationship逐渐衰败的企业；日益恶化的关系
All his hopes began to crumble away.他所有的希望开始化为泡影。
The empire finally crumbled into dust.这个帝国最终崩溃了。
1.[u][c]酥皮水果甜点a dessert (= a sweet dish) made from fruit that is covered with a rough mixture of flour, butter and sugar, cooked in the oven and usually served hot
apple crumble and custard酥皮苹果甜点心加蛋奶沙司
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye? Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? Oh no, not I!
你不就是那个试着用再见来伤害我的人吗？你是否想过我会崩溃？你是否想过我会倒下，死去？不，我不会！
In the heart of rain falling in my heart shake and crumble, floating, shake shake, do not know what Chucai is safe harbor.
心在风雨飘洒中摇摇欲坠，我的心飘啊飘，摇啊摇，不知道何处才是自己能够安全停泊的港湾。
Or maybe it was the morning they woke up to see our walls of security crumble along with our two largest towers.
或者也许这是9月11日那天他们醒来的时候发现国家的安全保障已经随着双子大楼的倒塌而崩溃。
It was a wonder that his statue did not crumble at the sight of her bare breasts.
奇怪的是，他的雕像竟然没在她赤裸的双乳之前崩溃掉。
"The majority of us are exposed to at least one traumatic event and maybe several, " he added. "It's absurd to think we would all crumble. "
他接着说：“我们大部分人会暴露在至少一件甚至几件创伤性事件中，认为我们都会崩溃的想法是很荒唐的。”
To be sure, some of the changes were in the works long before the first stress fractures appeared and the economy began to crumble.
可以肯定的是，一些计划中的改变早在经济结构出现问题和经济开始下滑之前就已经有的。
The papyrus was already beginning to crumble, so he did not dare touch it by hand.
这些纸草已经开始碎裂，所以他不敢用手去碰它们。
If I take a piece of concrete, a block of concrete, and I put too much pressure on it, it starts to crumble.
如果我拿一块混凝土，一大块混凝土，在上面施加太大的压力，它就会开始碎裂。
Over the following days, the team carefully cleared the dirt away, revealing bones so fragile they were ready to crumble apart.
此后几天里，团队成员仔细地将泥土清理干净，露出了随时会碎裂的极其脆弱的遗骨。
These types of walls seem to crumble at the very idea of being punctured by a screw, nail or dirty look.
一想到这种墙要被螺丝钉，钉子或是一个臭脸孔穿透，它们似乎就会崩塌。
Yet they are such a linchpin of general relativity that the theory would crumble like a house of cards in a hurricane if they did not exist.
但是这是广义相对论的关键，如果它不存在的话，广义相对论将像暴风中的纸房子一样崩溃。
Fragile flowers, filled with stripping the sorrows of life, in the wind shake and crumble.
脆弱的花，满带剥离生命的痛楚，在风中摇摇欲坠。
Pay day? You mean crumble day? The day they throw me a few crumbles for work like a slave all week?
发薪日？你是说点心日？我像奴隶似的工作一周然后随便丢给我几块点心的这一天？
Each night will be to attack the loneliness, with a ferocious mask, let me collapse at the first blow to the fragile heart to crumble.
每个深夜都会侵袭来的寂寞，带着狰狞的面具，让我本就脆弱到不堪一击的心彻底瓦解。
People expected nothing from the nation, and the mutual help across generations and the trust in local communities was beginning to crumble.
人们不期待从民族那里获得什么，跨代的互助和对本地社区的信任开始崩溃。
After these conquests Europe stabilised, but the old foundations were already beginning to crumble.
虽然那些被征服的地区又从新复辟了帝制，但陈旧的国家机器已逐渐被打破了。
By such focussing on a global scale, the dark monstrous jungle which the thoughts and actions of man have created will crumble.
通过这样的全球性的聚焦，那人的想法和举动所创造的黑暗的可恶丛林会崩溃。
Yes, there are marriages that crumble due to boredom, just as there are business that lose their customers due to a lack of imagination.
是的，有些婚姻因厌倦而破碎。就像有的生意因为缺乏创造力而失去了顾客。
These religious taboos -- and faith in the priests' magical powers -- are slowly beginning to crumble.
这些宗教禁忌，以及对祭司们神奇力量的笃信，正在开始逐步瓦解。
The trench does not work as well in sand as in clay. When the edges of the trench tend to crumble use green sticks to support the pot.
地沟在沙地上不如泥土地上好使。要是沟边缘有倒塌的迹象，使用生树枝来支撑锅底。
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