Shatter
['ʃætə] or ['ʃætɚ]
解释:
(verb.) break into many pieces; 'The wine glass shattered'.
(verb.) cause to break into many pieces; 'shatter the plate'.
(verb.) damage or destroy; 'The news of her husband's death shattered her life'.
整理:奥拉--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
(v. t.) To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
(v. t.) To scatter about.
(v. i.) To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
(n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
达伦编辑
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Shiver, break in pieces, dash into fragments.[2]. Disorder, derange, make insane.
整理:理查德
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Split, dissipate, disrupt, derange, break_in_pieces, rend, demolish, shiver,dismember, disintegrate
ANT:Construct, organize, collocate, fabricate, compose, rear, constitute
手打:马吉
解释:
v.t. to break or dash to pieces: to crack: to disorder: to render unsound.—v.i. to break into fragments.—n. a fragment: impaired state.—adjs. Shatt′er-brained -pā′ted disordered in intellect; Shatt′ery brittle.
录入:米歇尔
例句:
- Within the last decade or so shells have been invented with the design simply to shatter or fracture the plate by which the way is broken for subsequent shots. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Too much, and she would shatter herself, she would fill the fine vial of her soul too quickly, and it would break. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- No more is needed to completely shatter the last remnant of my superstitious belief in the divinity of Issus. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- In work of this nature it had been customary, as above stated, to depend upon a high explosive, such as dynamite, to shatter and break the ore to lumps of one hundred pounds or less. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Judaism is indeed the reconstructed political ideal of many shattered peoples--mainly Semitic. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- After Ireland came Scotland, where Cromwell shattered a Royalist army at the Battle of Dunbar (1650). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He has taken to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his nervous system is shattered. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The man's skull had been shattered by a blow from a poker delivered from behind. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- We pass on now to the story of one futile commencement, one glorious shattered beginning of human unity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Almost at the instant of impact I turned my bows upward, and then with a shattering jolt we were in collision. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Suddenly there was an explosion, shattering the chemical apparatus and probably alarming the whole building. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Not least among the blessings is a shattering of the good-and-bad-man theory: the assassination of tyrants or the adoration of saviors. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It was a quite typical instance of that silly firmness which shatters empires. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- For this purpose a dynamite cartridge is exploded at the lower end of the well, which shatters the rock, and, in opening up new channels of flow for the oil, renews the yield. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
手打:梅格