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- hard but liable to break or shatter easily脆的, 易碎的：
her bones became fragile and brittle.
她的骨头变得脆而易碎。
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- (of a sound, especially a person's voice) unpleasantly hard and sharp and showing signs of instability or nervousness（声音, 尤指人的嗓音）尖利刺耳的：
a brittle laugh.
尖利刺耳的笑声。
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- (of a person or behaviour) appearing decisive and aggressive but unstable or nervous within（人, 行为）外强中干的。
派生词
brittlely
（或brittly）adverbbrittleness
noun词源
late Middle English， ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Old English breotan 'break up'.