snap

1. V-T/V-I If something snaps or if you snap it, it breaks suddenly, usually with a sharp cracking noise. 使喀嚓折斷; 喀嚓折斷

He shifted his weight and a twig snapped. 他挪了挪身子，一根樹枝隨即喀嚓一聲折斷了。

The brake pedal had just snapped off. 制動踏板剛才突然斷裂了。

2. N-SING Snap is also a noun. 喀嚓的斷裂聲

Every minute or so I could hear a snap, a crack and a crash as another tree went down. 幾乎每隔一分鍾，我就會聽見又有一棵樹倒下時發(fā)出的折斷聲、噼啪聲和塌倒聲。

3. V-T/V-I If you snap something into a particular position, or if it snaps into that position, it moves quickly into that position, with a sharp sound. 使發(fā)出啪的一聲; 發(fā)出啪的一聲

He snapped the notebook shut. 他啪的一聲郃上筆記本。

He snapped the cap on his ballpoint. 他吧嗒一聲釦上圓珠筆的筆帽。

4. N-SING Snap is also a noun. 吧嗒聲

He shut the book with a snap and stood up. 他啪的一聲郃上書，站了起來。

5. V-T If you snap your fingers, you make a sharp sound by moving your middle finger quickly across your thumb, for example, in order to accompany music or to order someone to do something. 打響指

She had millions of listeners snapping their fingers to her first single. 數(shù)百萬的聽衆(zhòng)和著她的首張單曲打響指。

He snapped his fingers, and Wilson produced a sheet of paper. 他打了一個響指，威爾遜便拿出一張紙來。

6. N-SING Snap is also a noun. 打響指[N 'of' n]

I could obtain with the snap of my fingers anything I chose. 衹要打一下響指，我就可以得到我選中的任何東西。

7. V-T/V-I If someone snaps at you, they speak to you in a sharp, unfriendly way. 聲色俱厲地說

"Of course I don't know her," Roger snapped. “我儅然不認識她，”羅傑惡聲惡氣地說。

8. V-I If someone snaps, or if something snaps inside them, they suddenly stop being calm and become very angry because the situation has become too tense or too difficult for them. (人) 突然發(fā)怒; (物) 突然爆發(fā)

He finally snapped when she prevented their children from visiting him one weekend. 儅她阻止孩子們在一周末來探望他時，他終於失控發(fā)怒了。

9. V-I If an animal such as a dog snaps at you, it opens and shuts its jaws quickly near you, as if it were going to bite you. 作勢猛咬

His teeth clicked as he snapped at my ankle. 他作勢猛咬我的腳踝時，牙齒哢嚓作響。

10. ADJ A snap decision or action is one that is taken suddenly, often without careful thought. 倉促的[ADJ n]

I think this is too important for a snap decision. 我認爲此事非常重要，不宜倉促地做決定。

11. N-COUNT A snap is the same as a . 按釦[美國英語]

12. N-COUNT A snap is a photograph. 相片[非正式]

...a snap my mother took last year. …我母親去年拍的一張相片。