Word · CEFR C1 · Frequency #10006
crumb
裹上面包屑
To cover with crumbs.
- 1.
To cover with crumbs.
用面包屑覆盖
- 2.
To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.
用手指弄碎成碎屑或小块；捏碎
弄碎；使成碎屑；用面包屑覆盖；用手指弄碎成碎屑或小块；捏碎；捏碎；弄碎
In use
She crumbed the fish fillets before frying them.
He is crumbing the stale bread to make stuffing.
The recipe says to crumb the crackers finely.
Verb forms
base crumb · third person crumbs · -ing crumbing · past crumbed · past participle crumbed
规则动词，过去式加-ed，注意拼写不变。
Connections
Collocations
- crumbed chicken
- 裹上面包屑的鸡肉
- The restaurant serves crumbed chicken with chips.这家餐厅供应裹上面包屑的鸡肉配薯条。
- crumb the biscuits
- 把饼干捏碎
- Crumb the biscuits and mix them with melted butter for the base.把饼干捏碎，与融化的黄油混合做成饼底。
- crumb the bread with your fingers
- 用手指把面包弄成碎屑
- Crumb the bread with your fingers and add it to the stuffing.用手指把面包弄成碎屑，然后加入馅料中。
Idioms & figurative uses
- a crumb of comfort
- 一丝安慰The doctor’s news gave us a crumb of comfort.医生的消息给了我们一丝安慰。
- pick up the crumbs
- 捞取剩余的好处While the big companies took the profits, the smaller ones had to pick up the crumbs.大公司拿走了利润，小公司只好捞取剩余的好处。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
想象用手把面包搓成小碎粒，crumb就是“碎屑”；动词即“捏碎成屑”或“裹上面包屑”。记住：cr-开头和crumble同源联想，都含“碎”意。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：烹饪食谱、烘焙/厨房操作 作动词用时通常出现在烹饪或食品制作场景：可指在食物表面裹上面包屑，也可指用手指把食物弄碎成小碎屑。两义都比较常见于菜谱和厨房操作说明，属于日常中性用法，正式或随意场合均可使用。
Pronunciation & Spelling
These words rhyme with crumb /krʌm/: drum, hum, sum, numb, thumb, and dumb. In numb, thumb, and dumb, the final -mb is written with a silent b, like crumb. Beware lookalikes that do not rhyme: crumble /ˈkrʌmbəl/ and crump /krʌmp/; limb /lɪm/ also ends in -mb but has a different vowel.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
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