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This time, he turns his attention to an old crusty pipe protruding from the bottom of the wall. He grabs the wheel valve on the pipe and turns it with some effort.
这次，他的注意力集中在墙底部的一条陈旧的带有硬壳的管道，他抓住管道上的轮形阀门，很费力的将阀门扭开。
His drawling, cracker-barrel soliloquies overflow with crusty red-state sentiments that may or may not represent the author's feelings but probably don't violate them terribly.
他那有气无力朴实无华的个人独白充满了红州人所独有的执拗情感，这种刻画方式是否代表了作者的切身感受，我们无从知晓，但应该不是一时的灵感乍现。
All the more reason, you’d think, for healthy birds to avoid sitting next to someone with crusty red peepers.
再就是，你得想想，对于健康的鸟类来说，它们会避免和暴躁的红眼病鸟挨得太近。

Because they --one important thing -John Moody was a very crusty, strong-willed man, who wrote a couple books.
因为他们... 一个很重要的事情...,约翰·穆迪是个刚毅且固执己见的人,他写了几本书
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At the same time crusty competitors Interstate Bakeries and Sara Lee instigated a price war.
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The popular image of these late years may be of crusty and decrepit ancients.
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(HARD LAYER) having a hard outer layer
(EASILY ANNOYED) (especially of older people) complaining and easily annoyed
a young person who does not live in a way that society considers normal, typically with untidy or dirty clothes and hair, and no regular job or permanent home