Think of something heavy coming down from above and not stopping. Whatever is underneath changes shape: a box , a frame bends, a person cannot stand up straight. Every use of crushing can be held together by that one downward weight. Sometimes the weight is real, like snow on a roof. Sometimes it is a score, a debt, or a sentence someone says to you, and what gives way is your confidence instead of your roof.
From the word’s history
By surface analysis the word is crush plus -ing, so its plainest reading is simply 'doing the crushing'.
來源字典把這個字拆成 crush 加 -ing，最素的讀法就是「正在壓碎的」。其他用法可以想成從這個動作長出來的。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract) etymology_text: "By surface analysis, crush + -ing."
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crushingadj/ˈkɹʌ.ʃɪŋ/
- 1
That crushes; overwhelming.
- a crushing defeat
- The fruits of these kickstarted endeavors began to show in 1915, first in the deployment of a new range of depth charges. These were, mercifully, smaller than Jellicoe's "crushing hand of God" prototype, and, whilst practically just as lethal to submarines, they were significantly less risky to the launching ship, and could also be carried in larger numbers.
- 2
Devastatingly disheartening.
- crushing blow
- crushing guilt
crushingnoun/ˈkɹʌ.ʃɪŋ/
- 1
The action of the verb to crush.
- 2
A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim.
- 3
Crushed material.
- oilseed crushings
- 4
The act of subjecting sugarcane to crushing.
- Mr. Holtze speaks with feeling upon this subject. His own experience had shown him the folly of planting sugar in dry soil, at a distance from water; the natural consequence was that, though the cane grew on the ironstone ridges of Palmerston, it would not throw up sufficient juice to make a good crushing.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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