Breach
[briːtʃ] or [britʃ]
解释:
(noun.) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation.
(noun.) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification).
吉恩编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
(n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
(n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
(n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
(n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
(n.) A bruise; a wound.
(n.) A hernia; a rupture.
(n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
(v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
(v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
编辑:斯坦利
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Break, fracture, rupture, opening, chasm, gap, crack, flaw, fissure, rent, rift.[2]. Infraction, violation, infringement, non-observance.[3]. Quarrel, difference, variance, disagreement, dissension, schism, misunderstanding, alienation, disaffection, rupture, falling out.
布里茨校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Rupture, divulsion, gap, quarrel, violation, nonperformance
ANT:Integrity, conservation, healing, reconciliation, inviolateness, fulfillment
埃利奥特录入
解释:
n. a break or opening as in the walls of a fortress: a breaking of law &c. violation of contract covenant promise &c.: a quarrel: a broken condition or part of anything a break: a gap in a fortification—hence 'to stand in the breach ' often used figuratively: a break in a coast-line bay harbour creek (Judges v. 17).—v.t. to make a breach or opening in a wall &c.—Breach of promise often used simply for breach of promise of marriage; Breach of the peace a violation of the public peace by riot or the like.
鲍里斯校对
例句:
- France, Germany, Italy and Spain, were interposed, walls yet without a breach, between us and the plague. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- This healed the breach between the two, never after reopened. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Time we were off, my dear sir; breach of promise trial-court is generally full in such cases. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- It is then the interest of the enemies of this potentate to secure and publish this letter, so as to make a breach between his country and ours? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- I have a right to complain of it as almost a breach of confidence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- And then he put it to me, whether it would not be a breach of professional confidence on his part to say more. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Coming in for Pocket-Breaches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- And to have entered into the nature of diseases would only have added to his breaches of medical propriety. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Pocket-Breaches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- When he wrote of the _Social Contract_, he did so rather to excuse breaches of the covenant than to emphasize its necessity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Veneering's object is to let Pocket-Breaches know that his friend on his right (Podsnap) is a man of wealth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
校对:佩德罗