The police suddenly examined the house to a crumb, but found nothing valuable for their search .

警察突然仔细地搜查了这栋房子，但没有搜到什么重要的东西。

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I've nothing to give you—nothing—not a crumb!

我没有东西可以给你——什么也没有——一点面包屑也没有！

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When he had slowed to twenty and stretched his wings again at last, the boat was a crumb on the sea, four thousand feet below.

后来他把速度一直放慢到二十英里，最后展开双翅，四千英尺下面的渔船已经变成漂在海面上的一粒面包屑了。

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Thus armed, tackling the recipe itself an elemental combination of confectioner's sugar, flour, eggs and anise oil is easy. (You may have most of the ingredients on hand already.) For leavening, purists prefer a pinch of hartshorn (aka baker's ammonia), which is traditional in Scandinavian baking and thought to produce a tender, fluffier crumb but conventional baking powder more than suffices.

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This will be only a crumb of comfort to Juyuan's grieving parents.

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You want the olive oil to seep all the way into the bread's center, so every crumb turns a deep golden brown, but no darker.

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