Crowley, somewhere west of Amersham, hurtled through the night, snatched a tape at random and tried to wrestle it out of its brittle plastic box while staying on the road.

安墨森区某个地方，克鲁利在深夜里急速飞驰，他一手握着方向盘，一手随手抓起一盘磁带，试图把它从易碎的盒子里揪出来。

youdao

Drillable packers, and similar tools such as bridge plugs, are typically made from cast iron, aluminum, plastic or similar brittle materials.

可钻式封隔器以及桥塞等类似的工具一般都用铸铁、铝、塑料或类似的脆性材料制成。

youdao

No matter what the shape of cutting tools is, failure procedures are simply divided into three stages: brittle failure, plastic failure, and fracture.

不论刀具形状如何，破坏过程大体分为三个阶段：脆性破坏阶段、塑性破坏阶段、断裂破坏阶段。

youdao

At present the tops, however, and the brittle plastic that makes up things like margarine tubs, have so little that they're not worth recycling.

BBC

In that cold, copper wire and plastic become brittle.

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