noun🔗Share碎片，残片 A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig."While digging in the garden, I found a shard of blue pottery that must have been buried there a long time ago. "在花园里挖掘的时候，我发现了一块蓝色的陶器碎片，这块碎片一定是埋在那里很久了。archaeologymaterialparthistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share碎片，残片 (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery."After the rockslide, a shard of granite jutted out from the side of the mountain, sharp and dangerous. "山体滑坡之后，一块花岗岩碎块突兀地从山边伸出来，锋利而危险。materialgeologyarchaeologypartitemthingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share甲壳，硬壳，鞘翅 A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle."The beetle's hard shard protected its delicate wings. "那甲虫坚硬的鞘翅保护了它脆弱的翅膀。animalinsectbiologystructurenatureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share分片服务器，服务器分片 An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources."Players distributed across different shards of the game world experienced less lag and faster load times. "分布在不同分片服务器上的玩家体验到了更少的延迟和更快的加载速度。technologycomputinggameinternetentertainmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share分片，碎片 A component of a sharded distributed database.""The online game's database was split into several shards to handle the huge number of players logging in from all over the world." "为了应对来自世界各地的大量玩家同时登录，这款网络游戏的数据库被分割成了多个分片。computinginternettechnologysystemstructureelectronicsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share冰毒碎片，冰碴儿 (singular or plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.substanceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share破碎，裂开。 To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion."The vase shattered, sharding into many small pieces on the floor. "花瓶碎裂了，炸开成许多小碎片散落在地板上。materialdisasterphysicsactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share打碎，粉碎 To break (something) into shards."He accidentally shard the glass vase when he bumped into the table. "他不小心撞到桌子，把玻璃花瓶打碎了。actionmaterialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share分片，碎片化。 To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one."The game developers decided to shard the popular MMORPG to reduce server lag and improve the player experience by distributing the user base across multiple smaller virtual worlds. "为了减少服务器延迟，提升玩家体验，游戏开发者决定对这款热门大型多人在线角色扮演游戏进行分片，将用户群分散到多个较小的虚拟世界中。technologycomputinginternetgameentertainmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share甜菜, 莙薘菜。 The plant chard."I added some colorful shard to my salad. "我在沙拉里加了一些色彩鲜艳的莙薘菜。plantvegetablefoodChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
