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chunk

/chuhngk/US // tʃʌŋk //UK // (tʃʌŋk) //

大块,块状,大块的,块状物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a thick mass or lump of anything: a chunk of bread; a chunk of firewood.
    • : Informal. a thick-set and strong person.
    • : a strong and stoutly built horse or other animal.
    • : a substantial amount of something: Rent is a real chunk out of my pay.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cut, break, or form into chunks: Chunk that wedge of cheese and put the pieces on a plate.
    • : to remove a chunk or chunks from: Storms have chunked out the road.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to form, give off, or disintegrate into chunks: My tires have started to chunk.

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Examples

  • Mine was nicely flavored, with a little bit of heat from that promised Cajun seasoning, but it was limp, not crisp, and fell away from the fish in gummy chunks when I tried to pull the edge of the filet apart.

  • After time and exposure to sunlight, they tend to weather into smaller and smaller chunks with the same chemical composition.

  • The recipe developer Rick Martinez uses a similar method, breaking the cooked sweet potatoes into large chunks, dousing them in good oil and plenty of salt, and letting the oven crisp up all the corners.

  • Heated gloves use the same lithium-ion battery technology as the rechargeable ones listed above, but the active heaters are fit to the glove, so you can maintain grip and flexibility without maneuvering around a large chunk of plastic and metal.

  • This 70-year-old family-run dairy is a master at balancing smooth and crunchy textures for optimal chunk-burrowing with a spoon.

  • Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

  • They gave us three laptops (to run our light show) and a nice chunk of cash.

  • According to Travolta, quite a good chunk of the dance routine was conceived on the spot.

  • Most scientists who study the Moon think it formed when a huge impact in the early Solar System broke a chunk of Earth off.

  • Reynolds spent $1.5 million on an anti-smoking campaign, a large chunk of his wealth.

  • It's a big chunk of money, and a little thing like killing a man or two won't trouble them.

  • She was working on a chunk of marble and she had the forehead and general scalp contours almost completed.

  • And it makes a huge chunk of a very different style and quality between Chapters II.

  • Davis, because a man of family and more conservative, insisted it would be a “pretty tough chunk of a fight.”

  • Then one o' the Lieutenant's men jerked the chunk o' cheese away and283 broke it open.