crack up• Some people can't cope with the death of a loved one, and simply crack up.• I think Paul's cracking up under the strain of work.
crack (somebody) up• It used to crack me up.• The cloud is like a magnet so the water goes through the cracks and goes up.• It nearly cracked me up and he could see what it did to me.• Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.• It was funny, he cracked me up last night.• All those crack shits shooting up the streets?• Most of the humor consists of watching Shorecrack himself up with his own Valley garble.
crack-up• Rudi felt that many of his students had no idea they were heading for a crack-up.• For some of those years I had thought it might hold off the crack-up.• The crack-up of personalconfidence, the sheerbloodyhell of facing every simpledecision as a majorcrisis.• They talked about their careers, their crack-ups, their prongs, their shrinks, their dreams.
a)crack (somebody) upCONTROL to laugh a lot at something, or to make someone laugh a lot (使)(某人)捧腹大笑
Everyone in the class just cracked up.
全班哄堂大笑。
She’s so funny. She cracks me up.
她很有趣,逗得我捧腹大笑。
b)CONTROLto become unable to think or behave sensibly because you have too many problems or too much work 吃不消,精神崩溃
I was beginning to think I was cracking up!
我开始觉得我快要精神崩溃了!
Examples from the Corpus
crack up• Some people can't cope with the death of a loved one, and simply crack up.• I think Paul's cracking up under the strain of work.
crack (somebody) up• It used to crack me up.• The cloud is like a magnet so the water goes through the cracks and goes up.• It nearly cracked me up and he could see what it did to me.• Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.• It was funny, he cracked me up last night.• All those crack shits shooting up the streets?• Most of the humor consists of watching Shorecrack himself up with his own Valley garble.