Brittle

1You've already known that ice is brittle, and if you hit it with a hammer, it will shatter like glass.大家都知道冰是易碎的，如果你拿錘子敲擊它，它會如玻璃一樣碎裂。

2Engineers like ceramics because they can be heated without melting, unlike metals and plastics, though, they are brittle.工程師們喜歡陶瓷，因為陶瓷在加熱時不會熔化，但與金屬和塑料不同的是，陶瓷易碎。

3My middle-aged friend says I should accept the inevitable fact that let the bones turn brittle, the skin shrivel and sag, the hair grey and thin.我的中年朋友説，我應當接受不可避免的事實，讓骨骼變得脆弱，皮膚枯萎鬆弛，頭髮稀疏變白。

4Pine is brittle and breaks.松木硬脆易折。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

5They don't deform easily; they tend to be more brittle.它們不容易變形；它們是更脆的。

6They were quite brittle and shattered very easily if they were dropped.它們很脆，如果掉在地上很容易碎。

7Those who survive are at greater risk of developing brittle bones, life-threatening infections, kidney damage and heart problems.那些存活下來的人面臨着更大的風險，如骨頭變脆，威脅生命的感染，腎臟損害以及心臟問題。

8The inventor Henry Bessemer discovered that directing a blast of air at melted iron in a furnace would burn out the impurities that made the iron brittle.發明家亨利·貝塞默發現，在熔爐裏對鐵水直接吹一吹氣，就會燒掉使鐵變脆的雜質。

9It is a less brittle mechanism.因此，這是一個比較強壯的機制。

10Brittle is a good word to exercise this idea.而單詞brittle正好用來檢驗這個説法。

11Also a brittle person can be someone who is unfriendly.如果你説某人brittle，還可以指這個人很不友好。

12Brittle nails are indicative of calcium deficiency.指甲發脆表明缺鈣。

13Generated code is usually too brittle and often complex.生成的代碼通常太脆弱和複雜。

14Unlike metals and plastics, though, they are brittle.不像金屬還有塑料，因為後兩者十分脆弱。

15Too little, and the system becomes stovepiped and brittle.過少的內聚性將使系統變得脆弱。

16Declarative markup will replace much brittle procedural code.聲明式標記將取代很多脆弱的過程性代碼。

17The more detailed our plans get, the more brittle they become.計劃越詳細，也就越脆弱。

18Mostly, he sits in a wheelchair, crippled by brittle bone disease.由於脆骨病致殘，他大多數情況下坐在輪椅上。

19Extended use of these products can lead to split ends and brittle hair.過分的使用這些產品會導致頭髮分岔和發脆。

20All that sun, water and chlorine made your hair dry, rough, brittle, and frizzy?所有那些陽光、水和氯使你的頭髮乾燥、粗糙、脆弱以及捲曲？

21Out of date tea leaves will be brittle and dry, rather than lush and aromatic.過期的茶葉會變得乾燥易碎，口感與味道都會明顯下降。

22The only problem is that it's fragile and brittle, and that means it breaks easily.唯一的毛病在於它脆弱而易碎，也就是説很容易壞掉。

23You still have to solve the same puzzles, and the solutions are just as brittle.您仍然需要解決相同的難題，而且解決方案會不可靠。

24XML is often less brittle because, again, you can ignore data you don't know about.xml一般也比較強壯，因為你可以對你所不瞭解的數據視而不見。

25Those tablets were not baked, only dried in the sun and [were], therefore, very brittle.那些粘土碑不是被燒製的，而只是在陽光下曬乾，所以是非常易碎的。

26A good source of biotin, avocados help to prevent dry skin and brittle hair and nails.作為一種生物素的重要來源，鱷梨可以防止皮膚乾燥，頭髮與指甲的開裂。

27Osteoporosis is a bone-wasting disease that makes your bones brittle and more prone to breaks.骨骼疏鬆症是一種使你的骨骼脆弱和甚至破壞的骨骼損耗疾病。 ^[1]