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- a small fragment of bread, cake, or biscuit面包屑; 糕饼屑; 饼干屑。
1.1
- a very small amount of something点滴, 少许：
the Budget provided few crumbs of comfort.
预算并未给人们带来多少安慰。
1.2
- mass noun the soft inner part of a loaf of bread面包心。
1.3
- （亦作crumb rubber）[mass noun] granulated rubber, usually made from recycled car tyres（常指用回收利用的汽车轮胎制成的）粒化橡胶。
2
- informal, chiefly N. Amer. an objectionable or contemptible person〈非正式, 主北美〉讨厌的人; 可鄙的人：
he's an absolute crumb.
他是个十足的讨厌人。
with obj.
- cover (food) with breadcrumbs在（食品）上涂面包屑：
as adj. crumbed crispy crumbed mushrooms with garlic dip裹有面包屑的松脆大蒜沙司蘑菇。
短语
crumbs from someone's（或a rich man's）table
- an unfair and inadequate or unsatisfactory share of something某人（或富人）桌上的面包屑, 残羹剩饭（不公平分配所致的一份不足或不能令人满意的东西）。
词源
Old English cruma, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kruim and German Krume. The final -b was added in the 16th cent., perhaps from CRUMBLE but also influenced by words such as dumb, where the original final -b is retained although no longer pronounced.