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eat/have a cracker
cracker 通常指薄脆的饼干，常与奶酪、蘸酱搭配食用。
She ate a cracker with cheese before dinner.
她在晚餐前吃了一块带奶酪的饼干。
薄脆饼干；苏打饼干
crackers — plural of cracker
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
薄脆饼干；苏打饼干
a thin crisp wafer made from flour and water, unsweetened or semisweet
She ate a cracker with cheese before dinner.
她在晚餐前吃了一块带奶酪的饼干。
一种干燥、薄脆的烤面包(通常是咸味或咸味的,但有时是甜味的,如全麦饼干和动物饼干)。
A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
虾片。
A prawn cracker.
某些鞭子的最后部分,由一小段解开的绳子或一小段拧成的线组成,鞭子抽动时会发出独特的爆裂声。
The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
爆竹。
A firecracker.
I spread some cheese on a cracker and ate it as a quick snack.
我在一块饼干上涂了些奶酪，当作快速小点心吃了。
She packed a box of crackers and some fruit for the picnic.
她为野餐打包了一盒饼干和一些水果。
Would you like another cracker with your soup?
你想再要一块饼干配汤吗？
cracker 通常指薄脆的饼干，常与奶酪、蘸酱搭配食用。
She ate a cracker with cheese before dinner.
她在晚餐前吃了一块带奶酪的饼干。
cracker 在英国英语中常指圣诞拉炮，pull a cracker 为常见搭配。
They pulled crackers and wore paper hats at the Christmas party.
他们在圣诞聚会上拉了彩炮，戴上了纸帽。
在计算机安全领域，cracker 指恶意黑客，区别于 ethical hacker。
A cracker broke into the company's server and stole customer data.
一名破袭者侵入了公司的服务器，窃取了客户数据。
Not this
I want to eat a cracker.
Use this
I want to eat a cookie.
cracker 指薄脆无甜味的饼干，而 cookie 是甜曲奇。中文‘饼干’涵盖两者，但英语中应根据口味区分。
Not this
He is a cracker who broke into the system.
Use this
He is a hacker who broke into the system.
cracker 特指恶意破坏系统的黑客，带有贬义；hacker 是中性词，泛指计算机入侵者。如果未强调恶意，应用 hacker。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
奶酪和饼干
We served cheese and crackers before dinner.
晚餐前我们上了奶酪和饼干。
全麦饼干
She made a cheesecake crust with graham crackers.
她用全麦饼干做了芝士蛋糕饼底。
动物饼干
The children ate animal crackers on the way to the zoo.
孩子们在去动物园的路上吃了动物饼干。
虾片
Fried prawn crackers are often served with Chinese dishes.
炸虾片常与中餐菜肴一起上桌。
饼干屑
The recipe calls for butter mixed with cracker crumbs.
食谱需要把黄油和饼干屑混合。
动物饼干泡在我的汤里，猴子和兔子翻跟头。
From the 1935 Shirley Temple song in the film Curly Top, where she playfully sings about animal crackers in her soup.
出自1935年秀兰·邓波儿在电影《小卷毛》里唱的那首歌，她俏皮地唱到自己汤里的动物饼干。
Use crackers naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
咬薄脆饼干时会发出“咔嚓”的脆响，crack 表示脆裂声，所以 cracker 就是薄脆饼干。
语域：neutral 常见场景：supermarket snack aisle、party appetizers、packed lunches cracker 作“薄脆饼干”讲时是日常中性词，多用于饮食和零食场景，比较常见于包装食品或聚餐场合；正式书面语中一般较少使用。
这些词中除 lacquer 外都以 -acker 结尾，与 cracker 词尾的 /ækə/ 押韵；lacquer 拼作 -quer，但发音相同。注意 crack /kræk/ 和 crackers /ˈkrækəz/ 是形近词，但结尾音不同，不要误认为与 cracker 同韵。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.