Breakdown
['breɪkdaʊn] or ['brek'daʊn]
解释:
(noun.) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories.
(noun.) a cessation of normal operation; 'there was a power breakdown'.
(noun.) a mental or physical breakdown.
手打:菲尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
(n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
(n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
手打:曼弗雷德
例句:
- It's a breakdown blow, and it damages Lydgate as much as Bulstrode. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The schools of the Roman world had been altogether swept away in the general social breakdown. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- After four or five years, in spite of repeated domestic afflicti ons and the breakdown of his own health, he arrived at a successful conclusion. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Not only this, but each car becomes an independently moving unit, not subject to delay by reason of a general breakdown of the power plant or of the line. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The station equipment at Brockton consisted at first of three dynamos, one of which was so arranged as to supply both sides of the system during light loads by a breakdown switch connection. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- There must first be some breakdown and necessity for direction that lets theory into her own. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- His chance came when there was a breakdown of the lines between New York and Albany. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- And while we have had to tell of something like a complete social collapse in the west, there were no such equivalent breakdowns in the east. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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