break

英[breɪk]
美[breɪk]

基本释义

v.
破碎; 弄坏,坏掉; 弄破; 违犯; 中断; 开拓; 削弱; 突变; 散开; 开始; 公布; 打破(记录); 拍岸; 破解
n.
休息,间歇; 暂停; 短期休假; 缝隙; 机遇; 破裂,骨折; 接连击中

词性变化

实用例句

I thought a 15 min break from his work would do him good...

我想他停下工作休息15分钟对他会有好处。

They are currently taking a short break in Spain.

他们目前正在西班牙休短假。

Because of the heat we broke our journey at a small country hotel.

由于天气炎热,我们在一家乡村小旅馆停下来稍作歇息。

He sustained serious neck injuries after he broke someone's fall.

有人坠落压在他身上,致使他颈部受重伤。

The news broke that the Prime Minister had resigned...

据报道首相已经辞职。

They broke for lunch.

他们停下来吃午饭。

They may be able to help with childcare so that you can have a break...

他们可以帮忙照料孩子,这样你就可以歇一歇了。

The newspapers and television can make or break you...

报纸和电视会使你成功,也会将你毁掉。

He never let his jailers break him...

他决不会让监狱看守们摧毁他的意志。

The professor hoped to break the students of the habit of looking for easy answers.

教授希望改掉学生们不动脑筋就想找到答案的习惯。

They were determined to break from precedent...

他们决心打破先例。

If you continue to smoke, keep trying to break the habit...

如果你还在吸烟的话,就尽量戒除这个习惯吧。

In 1959, Akihito broke with imperial tradition by marrying a commoner...

明仁天皇在1959年打破皇室传统,娶了一位平民女子为妻。

A sudden break in the cloud allowed rescuers to spot Michael Benson.

天气的突然放晴帮助救援人员找到了迈克尔·本森。

The unearthly silence was broken by a shrill screaming.

一声尖叫打破了这可怕的沉寂。

Old bones break easily...

老年人容易骨折。

Once you've broken the seal of a bottle there's no way you can put it back together again...

一旦你撕开瓶子的密封条,你就无法再把它复原。

The bandage must be put on when the blister breaks...

水疱一旦破了就必须用绷带包扎起来。

When the clutch broke, the car was locked into second gear...

离合器失灵后,汽车只能在二挡行驶。

Tenants do not have to worry about leaking roofs and broken washing machines...

租房者无需担心屋顶漏水和洗衣机出故障。

We didn't know we were breaking the law.

我们不知道自己在犯法。

The company has consistently denied it had knowingly broken arms embargoes.

这家公司一直否认自己是有意违反武器禁运规定。

She broke free by thrusting her elbow into his chest.

她用肘猛击他的胸部,挣脱了出来。

...his inability to break free of his marriage.

他无法摆脱婚姻的束缚

The Home Secretary aims to break the vicious circle between disadvantage and crime...

内政大臣力图打破贫困和犯罪之间的恶性循环。

New proposals have been put forward to break the deadlock among rival factions...

旨在结束各竞争派别之间僵持局面的新提案已被提交。

Hugh broke the silence. 'Is she always late?' he asked...

休打破了沉默,问道:“她总是迟到吗?”

She broke a leg in a skiing accident...

她在一次滑雪事故中摔断了一条腿。

The plate broke...

盘子打破了。

He fell through the window, breaking the glass...

他撞破玻璃从窗口摔了下去。

真题例句

They break routines, because autopilot is death.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

She never knows if the egg will break before the design is completed.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

I've broken eggs at every stage of the process—from the very beginning to the very, very end.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

I felt empowered because I broke through my own limitations, she recalls.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo .

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In agrarian , pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The most likely type of burglary by far is the unsophisticated crime of opportunity, usually involving a broken window or some forced entry.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

That means defeating the lock somehow, or breaking a window.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Some began to stop taking bathroom breaks, worried that if their productivity fell they would be fired.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Presumably, you keep your doors locked at night and while you're away, so the thief will still need to break in.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

He'll need to be jamming you at this point, as a broken window or opened door would normally release the alarm.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Break the tension with smiles and humor to reinforce the idea that this is friendly discourse and that all are working toward a common goal.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Although Kodak anticipated the inevitable rise of digital photography, its corporate(企业的) culture was too rooted in the successes of the past for it to make the clean break necessary to fully embrace the future.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The traditional textbook model is and has been broken for quite some time.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Thanks to men like Curtice, "the bonds of scarcity" had been broken and America was rolling "to an all-time high of prosperity"

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Tax breaks bring the cost down, especially in California, but in many states ZEHs can be prohibitively expensive.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

So it's only when the economy is healthy again that we'll begin to see just how many broken families have been created.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

On the other hand,there have been hundreds of thefts and cases of deliberate damaging of public property, which usually involves breaking windows or lights or writing on walls.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

In fact, when you break a role or law, you lose control over your life and give others the power to impose punishment that you have no control over.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

so that we don't break any rules

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

psychiatrist (心理医生) at the University of California, San Diego, said older people are more likely to suffer from broken sleep, while younger people are better at sleeping efficiently straight through the night.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

I've experienced roommate conflicts between interracial students that have both broken down stereotypes and reinforced stereotypes," said one Penn resident advisor (RA).

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

the consequence of a broken marriage

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Five ways to find harmony with the natural world Walk: Break the rhythm of permanently being under a roof

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

If it's a loss [where] you're not getting to work, and family relationships are breaking down as a result, then it's too much

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

She walked to the local grocery store to buy broken biscuits which were much cheaper, and to get a free bone for her much loved dog.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Social divisions will break down if people get to know each other

出自-2012年6月听力原文

I wonder if I broke something.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Imagine that someone in your neighborhood broke the law, and the judge put the whole neighborhood under suspicion

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Break the tension with smiles and humor to reinforce the idea that this is friendly discourse and that all are working toward a common goal.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

But she has to make the prison break in her own car.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

In agrarian, pre-industrial Europe, "you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work," says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Often, people break laws simply because the laws are there.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

The animal made it to the roof of the building, after it took a long break on a 17th floor window edge.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo.

2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

The one that used to get me was that swans could break your leg with a blow of the wing.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

When the body realizes the muscles are hurt, the response is to increase blood flow to the area and increase body heat, damaged cells are then cleaned up and the body sends cells specially designed to break down the large muscle fiber fragments.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The large base he leads resembles a snowed-in college campus on holiday break, with the capacity to sleep more than 10 times the 13 people who were staying on through the Antarctic winter.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbour's trip to India.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Other initiatives fail to break down the data, too.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

So why are American women so far ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

As for breaking through the glass ceiling in business,American women are well in the lead

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Meanwhile, tax breaks for children are modest.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Thirst grows for living unplugged More people are taking breaks from the connected life amid the stillness and quiet of retreats like the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvania

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

It might be tempting, therefore, to think that the old barriers have been broken down and equal opportunity achieved.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Only four out of the 54 people interviewed had completely broken with their sisters and brothers and only one of the four felt comfortable with the break.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

I have to get to Manchester today and my own car has broken down.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Only four out of the 54 people interviewed had completely broken with their sisters and brothers and only one of the four felt comfortable with the break

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Most of them had broken with their sisters and brothers.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

He cannot afford to have a coffee break.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

People from broken homes and North American Indians are two examples.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

People from broken homes often lack stable lives

出自-2013年6月听力原文

That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

They broke up more often than same-race roommates

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

The handle of the suitcase is broken.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

It will have little impact on sea level when it breaks up.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

If after work you lie around on your bed and get irritated by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

I'll start with a brief review of the reasons for the change that we really need to make a clean break to restart growth.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

In addition, you can take a cognitive break every 90 minutes to charge your batteries.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The message to young people who might not otherwise be able to afford to break into the business is, "You can purchase this $3 million piece of land here, because I'm guaranteeing you today you'll have 1, 000 Bison on it."

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbor's trip to India.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Approaching the vehicle, they saw that a woman was trying to get out of the broken window.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Breaking up firms like Google into five small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

But compared with previous studies, she finds the speed of breaking down in this one exciting.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Code breaking never lags (落后) far behind code making.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened (蔓上成熟的) promise, I've refused to buy winter tomatoes for years.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

He broke down as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

He couldn't return it when it was broken.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

Her friends came to help her when the war broke out.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 完形填空 原文

Hi, what will you do with your broken cellphone?

2017年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

I was now fascinated by the idea of poetry, words that had the power to make or break a person's world.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

It is very hard to break a code without the code book.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 选项

It should be during the lunch break.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

It was built incorrectly and broke in the kiln.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 答案 选项

Jennifer Debruyn, a microbiologist at the university of tennessee, who was not involved in the study, says it is not surprising that such worms can break down polyethylene.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Joe fell and broke his leg.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Norton sound was covered with ice, which could sometimes break up without warning.

2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

Oh my! My car broke down, and I have to meet my aunt at the railway station before noon.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

On the surface it seems as ridiculous as following the directions on soup mixes, but the lucky-break wait well serves those who are willing to do it.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action only sure that it will do so sometime.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

One of the projects was to build a clay pot, but I built mine incorrectly, so it broke in the kiln.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

Our class needs to go to the computer room during the morning break on the 18th.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

Perhaps the most powerful type of waiting is the lucky-break wait.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Recent studies show that we are far more productive at work if we take short breaks regularly.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Researchers in spain and england recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene, which accounts for 40% of plastics.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Russia is another country with population problems that could break its economic promise.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

See, your computer has broken down again! It doesn't make sense to buy the cheapest brand of computer just to save a few dollars.

2015年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Since that first repair job, a broken air-conditioner, a non-functioning washer and a non-toasting toaster have been fixed.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

So, if we have this capability but somehow life seems to keep us stuck, how do we break these patterns?

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Stop people from breaking traffic rules.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Such situations have led to calls for the tech giants to be broken up.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

That season, I broke all of Miller's records while he watched the home games from the bench.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 完形填空 原文

The bus hit a lamp post and it broke the glass on the front door before Harvold managed to bring the bus to a stop.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 完形填空 原文

The meetings will start at 10:00 am, and end at 3:00 pm, with a short lunch break.

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Then she easily broke it into two pieces.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

They rose in the ranks not by being friendly but by smoking cigarettes, breaking rules and playing jokes on others, among whom I soon found myself.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Unlike the forced wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

When a new day breaks, the walls have given up their heat and are now cold enough to cool the house during the hot day; at the same time, they warm up again for the night.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

When some refuse vaccination and seek a free ride, immunity breaks down and everyone is in even bigger danger.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

When the container is full, you can suck the refreshment out through the tube, and won't have to break down the still every time you need a drink.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

You start with English as usual, then business studies and after the break, history and art.

2016年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

It’s like the teacher who breaks up the troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better-behaved classmates.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Sometimes I feel in his late works a will to break all signs of continuity.

出自-2014年考研翻译原文

We don’t have to learn how to be mentally healthy ;it it built into us that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend a broken bone.

出自-2016年考研翻译原文

Quotas get action: they "open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling, " according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This will help to grow your internal network, in addition to being a nice break in the work day.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Tronick believes that just because a child isn't learning from the screen doesn't mean there's no value to it -- particularly if it gives parents time to have a shower, do housework or simply have a break from their child.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

When women do break through to the summit of corporate power—as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. some abrupt occurrence that interrupts;

    "the telephone is an annoying interruption"

    "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"

  • 2. an unexpected piece of good luck;

    "he finally got his big break"

  • 3. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;

    "they built it right over a geological fault"

  • 4. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);

    "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"

  • 5. a pause from doing something (as work);

    "we took a 10-minute break"

    "he took time out to recuperate"

  • 6. the act of breaking something;

    "the breakage was unavoidable"

  • 7. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

  • 8. breaking of hard tissue such as bone;

    "it was a nasty fracture"

    "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"

  • 9. the occurrence of breaking;

    "the break in the dam threatened the valley"

  • 10. the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool

  • 11. (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving;

    "he was up two breaks in the second set"

  • 12. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity;

    "it was presented without commercial breaks"

  • 13. a sudden dash;

    "he made a break for the open door"

  • 14. any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare;

    "the break in the eighth frame cost him the match"

  • 15. an escape from jail;

    "the breakout was carefully planned"

Verb
  • 1. terminate;

    "She interrupted her pregnancy"

    "break a lucky streak"

    "break the cycle of poverty"

  • 2. become separated into pieces or fragments;

    "The figurine broke"

    "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"

  • 3. destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments;

    "He broke the glass plate"

    "She broke the match"

  • 4. render inoperable or ineffective;

    "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!"

  • 5. ruin completely;

    "He busted my radio!"

  • 6. act in disregard of laws and rules;

    "offend all laws of humanity"

    "violate the basic laws or human civilization"

    "break a law"

  • 7. move away or escape suddenly;

    "The horses broke from the stable"

    "Three inmates broke jail"

    "Nobody can break out--this prison is high security"

  • 8. scatter or part;

    "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour"

  • 9. force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up;

    "break into tears"

    "erupt in anger"

  • 10. prevent completion;

    "stop the project"

    "break off the negociations"

  • 11. enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act;

    "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"

    "They broke into my car and stole my radio!"

  • 12. make submissive, obedient, or useful;

    "The horse was tough to break"

    "I broke in the new intern"

  • 13. fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns;

    "This sentence violates the rules of syntax"

  • 14. surpass in excellence;

    "She bettered her own record"

    "break a record"

  • 15. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;

    "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"

    "The actress won't reveal how old she is"

    "bring out the truth"

    "he broke the news to her"

  • 16. come into being;

    "light broke over the horizon"

    "Voices broke in the air"

  • 17. stop operating or functioning;

    "The engine finally went"

    "The car died on the road"

    "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"

    "The coffee maker broke"

    "The engine failed on the way to town"

    "her eyesight went after the accident"

  • 18. interrupt a continued activity;

    "She had broken with the traditional patterns"

  • 19. make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing;

    "The ranks broke"

  • 20. curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves;

    "The surf broke"

  • 21. lessen in force or effect;

    "soften a shock"

    "break a fall"

  • 22. be broken in;

    "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress"

  • 23. come to an end;

    "The heat wave finally broke yesterday"

  • 24. vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity;

    "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas"

  • 25. cause to give up a habit;

    "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes"

  • 26. give up;

    "break cigarette smoking"

  • 27. come forth or begin from a state of latency;

    "The first winter storm broke over New York"

  • 28. happen or take place;

    "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months"

  • 29. cause the failure or ruin of;

    "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"

    "This play will either make or break the playwright"

  • 30. invalidate by judicial action;

    "The will was broken"

  • 31. discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;

    "The business partners broke over a tax question"

    "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"

    "My friend and I split up"

  • 32. assign to a lower position; reduce in rank;

    "She was demoted because she always speaks up"

    "He was broken down to Sargeant"

  • 33. reduce to bankruptcy;

    "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"

    "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"

  • 34. change directions suddenly

  • 35. emerge from the surface of a body of water;

    "The whales broke"

  • 36. break down, literally or metaphorically;

    "The wall collapsed"

    "The business collapsed"

    "The dam broke"

    "The roof collapsed"

    "The wall gave in"

    "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"

  • 37. do a break dance;

    "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner"

  • 38. exchange for smaller units of money;

    "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy"

  • 39. destroy the completeness of a set of related items;

    "The book dealer would not break the set"

  • 40. make the opening shot that scatters the balls

  • 41. separate from a clinch, in boxing;

    "The referee broke the boxers"

  • 42. go to pieces;

    "The lawn mower finally broke"

    "The gears wore out"

    "The old chair finally fell apart completely"

  • 43. break a piece from a whole;

    "break a branch from a tree"

  • 44. become punctured or penetrated;

    "The skin broke"

  • 45. pierce or penetrate;

    "The blade broke her skin"

  • 46. be released or become known; of news;

    "News of her death broke in the morning"

  • 47. cease an action temporarily;

    "We pause for station identification"

    "let's break for lunch"

  • 48. interrupt the flow of current in;

    "break a circuit"

  • 49. undergo breaking;

    "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages"

  • 50. find a flaw in;

    "break an alibi"

    "break down a proof"

  • 51. find the solution or key to;

    "break the code"

  • 52. change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another;

    "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children"

  • 53. happen;

    "Report the news as it develops"

    "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"

  • 54. become fractured; break or crack on the surface only;

    "The glass cracked when it was heated"

  • 55. of the male voice in puberty;

    "his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir"

  • 56. fall sharply;

    "stock prices broke"

  • 57. fracture a bone of;

    "I broke my foot while playing hockey"

  • 58. diminish or discontinue abruptly;

    "The patient's fever broke last night"

  • 59. weaken or destroy in spirit or body;

    "His resistance was broken"

    "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"

同义词辨析

break, rest, pause, interval, recess, cease, stop

这些名词均含有"中止,停止,休息"之意。

  • break: 非正式用词,指突然的或短时间的中止,如工作或活动期间接短暂休息。
  • rest: 指统称的休息。
  • pause: 指短暂的中断或停止,含再进行下去的意味。
  • interval: 指一出戏在幕与幕之间,音乐会上下串场之间或演出中预先安排的休息;也可泛指事件之间的一段时间。
  • recess: 正式用词,指业务活动或工作中短暂的或长时间的休息。
  • cease: 正式用词,侧重逐渐结呸某活动或状态,含永远结束的意味。
  • stop: 普通用词,指迅速或突然中止某行为、活动或状态。

break, burst, crack, crush, fracture, shatter, smash

这些动词均含"打破,弄碎"之意。

  • break: 常用词,含义广泛,多指猛然用力将坚硬物打破或损坏。
  • burst: 指某物因内部外部压力过大而出现严重破裂、爆开或账破。
  • crack: 多指因长期使用或经受压力,物体表现呈现裂纹、裂口或破裂、裂开,但一般没成碎片。
  • crush: 指用力把东西压破或变形。
  • fracture: 比crack的破裂程度更深更严重,常指断裂,医学上指骨折。
  • shatter: 指破裂为许多支离破碎的碎片,多用指易碎事物。
  • smash: 指突然而猛烈地重击某物,使之破碎或完全变形。

break, destroy, ruin, wreck, damage, spoil

这些动词均有"破坏,损坏"之意。

  • break: 普通用词,指某物因被打破或撕破而受到破坏,可指有形或无形的破坏。
  • destroy: 多指彻底地、毁灭性地破坏,含导致无用,不能或很难再修复的意味。
  • ruin: 多指因外部原因而受到严重破坏或毁灭,侧重破坏的彻底性,也可用于引申意义。
  • wreck: 侧重指船只、车辆、房屋等受到严重破坏或完全毁坏,也可指计划、健康受到损害。
  • damage: 多指对无生命物体的损害,造成降低价值、破坏功能等后果。
  • spoil: 强调不仅会削弱力量、精力或价值,而且会导致不可避免的毁灭。

反义词

vt. & vi.毁坏;割伤;分离

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