单词详解 | scrunch

scrunch
音标
美音:/skrʌntʃ/,英音:/skrʌntʃ/

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
He advises people buying paper to test if it’s recyclable by scrunching it up – "the foil stuff, which can’t be recycled, tends to bounce back".
他建议人们购买纸张,通过揉搓来测试它是否可回收——“无法回收的箔纸往往会反弹回来”。
BBC

But when a midwife placed the baby in her arms — the tiny girl scrunching her face up and yawning — Hiyam knew that she had to protect her.
但是当助产士把婴儿抱在怀里时——小女孩皱着脸打着哈欠——希亚姆知道她必须保护她。
Seattle Times

Soft, or flexible, plastic – the kind you can scrunch up in your hand – includes everything from shopping bags to clingfilm.
柔软或有弹性的塑料——你可以用手揉搓的那种——包括从购物袋到保鲜膜的所有东西。
BBC

基本释意
verb
make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
v. 发出嘎吱嘎吱的响声;把……揉成一团;使蜷缩,碾压;造发型

同义词
crease,crinkle,crisp,ruckle,scrunch up,wrinkle,crouch,hunker,hunker down,scrunch up,squat,crump,thud,

短释义
To scrunch is to crumple or crush something. In the process of writing your novel by hand, you’ll have to scrunch a lot of pages and toss them into the trash can.
揉捏是弄皱或压碎某物。在手工写小说的过程中,你必须翻翻很多页,然后把它们扔进垃圾桶。

长释义
You can scrunch up you sister’s favorite shirt and shove it back in her drawer after she says you can’t borrow it, and you can also scrunch up your face in anger. Use this verb whenever you crease, wrinkle, crush, or squeeze something into a mass. It’s also a good term for a crunching sound: "I heard a scrunch in the dry leaves under my window." Scrunch arose as an intensive form of crunch, originally meaning "to bite."
你可以把姐姐最喜欢的衬衫揉成一团,在她说不能借后塞回她的抽屉里,也可以一怒之下揉成一团。每当您将某物弄皱、起皱、挤压或挤成一团时,请使用此动词。这也是嘎吱嘎吱声的好词:“我听到窗下干燥的树叶发出嘎吱嘎吱的声音。” Scrunch作为一种密集形式的紧缩出现,最初的意思是“咬”。

文学例句
Easy and easily confused, eyebrows scrunching like inchworms.
易易迷糊,眉头皱得像尺蠖。
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Julian scrunched up his face and started tapping his forehead like he was thinking really hard.
朱利安皱起脸,开始轻拍他的额头,好像他在认真思考一样。
Wonder by R. J. Palacio

Coach Quatrini scrunched the paper in a ball and threw it at me.
夸特里尼教练把纸揉成一个球扔给我。
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

词源
scrunch (v.)1825, "to bite, crush with or as with the teeth," intensive form of crunch (v.); ultimately imitative (see scr-). The colloquial meaning "to squeeze, crush" is by 1835 (implied in scrunched). The intransitive sense of "contract oneself into a more compact shape" is by 1884. Related: Scrunching. As a noun, "noise made by scrunching," by 1857; as an adjective, scrunchy is attested by 1905.  

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
scrunch (v.)1825,“用牙齿咬、压碎或像用牙齿一样”,密集形式的 crunch (v.);最终模仿(见scr-)。到 1835 年的口语意思是“挤压、挤压”(暗指挤压)。到 1884 年,“将自己收缩成更紧凑的形状”的不及物意义。相关: Scrunching。 1857 年作为名词,“揉搓产生的噪音”;作为形容词,scrunchy 在 1905 年得到了证明。


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