But plant breeding reduced the fibers, and now the beans are known as snap beans.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

This is very important, because when you buy a rope, they will tell you how much tension it can take before it'll snap.

这非常重要,因为你去买绳子,他们会告诉你,绳子能承受的最大拉力是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

With syncopation the impulse can come suddenly off the beat, and it gives it a little snap or jazzy aspect to the music.

在切分音里,冲动会突然打乱节拍,让音乐听起来突兀,奔放

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Fresh ones break with the pleasing sound of a snap.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

You go to your first house: "Trick or..." Snap!" It broke.

你去了第一个人家：,“不给糖就。。。“啪嗒，橡皮筋断了。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

In most of the snap polls taken after this week's debate, the prime minister came in third.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

It won't snap, but something else will be a problem.

绳子不会断,不过会有其它问题

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The weight of the snow caused tree limbs to snap and roofs to collapse.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

"People think he's going to do the thing in a snap,he cannot do that."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

He uses round,flat,Frisbee-like discs and a good snap of the wrist.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

"The last major event on that fault occurred 250 years ago, so if the fault snaps, it's going to snap by 1.7 meters, and that's about a magnitude 7 earthquake."

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

Europeans are taking precautions to survive the cold snap.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

While snow has brought smiles to the faces of children who have dusted off their sleds for the new season,for others, this cold snap just days before the Christmas break, has brought frustration.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21