In a second study, students rated crunchy foods as crunchier in the presence of loud white noise-perhaps because it tuned them into the sound of their food.

因为在第二项研究中，或许由于学生们把响亮的白噪声当成了食物咀嚼的声音，他们觉得食物更松脆了。

A single index disguises big differences between weaker and stronger states, but it shows that credit is crunchier now than it was at the height of the banking crisis in 2008.

区区一个指数掩饰了强弱国家之间不小的差距，然而，这组数据却显示出，当下的信贷危机比08年银行危机最严重时更严重。