Break
[breɪk] or [brek]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an escape from jail; 'the breakout was carefully planned'.
(noun.) a sudden dash; 'he made a break for the open door'.
(noun.) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; 'it was presented without commercial breaks'; 'there was a gap in his account'.
(noun.) (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving; 'he was up two breaks in the second set'.
(noun.) the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool.
(noun.) an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion); 'then there was a break in her voice'.
(noun.) an unexpected piece of good luck; 'he finally got his big break'.
(noun.) the occurrence of breaking; 'the break in the dam threatened the valley'.
(verb.) fall sharply; 'stock prices broke'.
(verb.) crack; of the male voice in puberty; 'his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir'.
(verb.) render inoperable or ineffective; 'You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!'.
(verb.) become separated into pieces or fragments; 'The figurine broke'; 'The freshly baked loaf fell apart'.
(verb.) happen; 'Report the news as it develops'; 'These political movements recrudesce from time to time'.
(verb.) prevent completion; 'stop the project'; 'break off the negotiations'.
(verb.) come into being; 'light broke over the horizon'; 'Voices broke in the air'.
(verb.) find the solution or key to; 'break the code'.
(verb.) find a flaw in; 'break an alibi'; 'break down a proof'.
(verb.) undergo breaking; 'The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages'.
(verb.) be released or become known; of news; 'News of her death broke in the morning'.
(verb.) pierce or penetrate; 'The blade broke her skin'.
(verb.) break a piece from a whole; 'break a branch from a tree'.
(verb.) go to pieces; 'The lawn mower finally broke'; 'The gears wore out'; 'The old chair finally fell apart completely'.
(verb.) ruin completely; 'He busted my radio!'.
(verb.) separate from a clinch, in boxing; 'The referee broke the boxers'.
(verb.) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; 'break into tears'; 'erupt in anger'.
(verb.) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; 'The surf broke'.
(verb.) emerge from the surface of a body of water; 'The whales broke'.
(verb.) scatter or part; 'The clouds broke after the heavy downpour'.
(verb.) move away or escape suddenly; 'The horses broke from the stable'; 'Three inmates broke jail'; 'Nobody can break out--this prison is high security'.
(verb.) interrupt a continued activity; 'She had broken with the traditional patterns'.
(verb.) cause the failure or ruin of; 'His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage'; 'This play will either make or break the playwright'.
(verb.) give up; 'break cigarette smoking'.
(verb.) cause to give up a habit; 'She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes'.
(verb.) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; 'The flat plain was broken by tall mesas'.
(verb.) weaken or destroy in spirit or body; 'His resistance was broken'; 'a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death'.
(verb.) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; 'He broke the glass plate'; 'She broke the match'.
(verb.) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing; 'The ranks broke'.
(verb.) invalidate by judicial action; 'The will was broken'.
(verb.) diminish or discontinue abruptly; 'The patient's fever broke last night'.
(verb.) exchange for smaller units of money; 'I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy'.
(verb.) be broken in; 'If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress'.
(verb.) interrupt the flow of current in; 'break a circuit'.
(verb.) become punctured or penetrated; 'The skin broke'.
(verb.) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; 'Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children'.
(verb.) make the opening shot that scatters the balls.
(verb.) come forth or begin from a state of latency; 'The first winter storm broke over New York'.
(verb.) change directions suddenly.
(verb.) happen or take place; 'Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months'.
(verb.) come to an end; 'The heat wave finally broke yesterday'.
(verb.) destroy the completeness of a set of related items; 'The book dealer would not break the set'.
凯茜錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
(v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.
(v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
(v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.
(v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.
(v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.
(v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
(v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.
(v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.
(v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.
(v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.
(v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.
(v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.
(v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.
(v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
(v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
(v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.
(v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.
(v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.
(v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm.
(v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.
(v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
(v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.
(v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
(v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.
(v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.
(v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
(v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption.
(v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.
(v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building.
(v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.
(v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.
(v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.
(v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.
(v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
(v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.
(n.) See Commutator.
格雷戈里錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Rend, sever, part, dispart, fracture, tear asunder.[2]. Shatter, shiver, smash, batter, dash to pieces.[3]. Enfeeble, enervate, weaken, impair.[4]. Tame, make tractable, make docile.[5]. Make bankrupt.[6]. Discard, dismiss, discharge, degrade, cashier.[7]. Violate, infringe, transgress, set at nought.[8]. Lessen the force of (as a fall).[9]. Interrupt, cease, intermit, cut short.[10]. Disclose, open, unfold, lay open.
v. n. [1]. Be shattered, be shivered, be dashed to pieces.[2]. Burst, explode.[3]. Open, dawn, appear.[4]. Become bankrupt.[5]. Decline, low health or strength.
n. [1]. Breach, opening, gap, fissure, rent, rift, chasm, rupture, fracture.[2]. Interruption, pause, CÆSURA.[3]. Dawn, dawning.
德洛丽丝校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Fracture, rupture, shatter, shiver, destroy, tame, curb, demolish,tear_asunder, rend, burst, sever, smash, split, subdue, violate, infringe
ANT:Heal, piece, conjoin, protect, conserve, encourage, rally, observe, obey
手打:撒迪厄斯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to part by force: to shatter: to crush: to tame or wear out: to violate or outrage as a law a bargain &c.: to check by intercepting as a fall: to interrupt as silence or the monotony of anything or in 'to break one off a habit:' to make bankrupt: to degrade from rank as an officer.—v.i. to part in two: to burst forth: to open or appear as the morning: to become bankrupt: to crack or give way as the voice: to dissolve as frost: to collapse in foam as a wave: to fall out as with a friend:—pa.t. brōke; pa.p. brōk′en.—n. the state of being broken: an opening: a pause or interruption: (billiards) a consecutive series of successful strokes also the number of points attained by such: the dawn.—ns. Break′age the action of breaking or its consequences: an interruption; Break′-down a dance vigorous rather than graceful in which much noise is made by the feet of the one performer; Break′er a wave broken on rocks or the shore.—adj. Break′-neck likely to cause a broken neck.—ns. Break′-prom′ise Break′-vow one who makes a practice of breaking his promise or vow; Break′water a barrier to break the force of the waves.—Break a jest to utter a jest unexpectedly; Break a lance with to enter into a contest with a rival; Break away to go away abruptly as from prison &c.: to be scattered as clouds after a storm; Break bulk to open the hold and take out a portion of the cargo; Break cover to burst forth from concealment as a fox; Break down to crush down or level: to collapse to fail completely; Break forth to burst out issue; Break ground to commence digging or excavation: to begin; Break in to train to labour as a horse; Break in in upon or into to enter violently or unexpectedly to interpose abruptly in a conversation &c.; Break loose to extricate one's self forcibly: to break through all restraint; Break news to make anything known esp. of bad news with caution and delicacy; Break off to separate by breaking put an end to; Break out to appear suddenly: to break through all restraint; Break sheer (said of a ship riding at anchor) to be forced by wind or tide out of a position clear of the anchor; Break the heart to destroy with grief; Break the ice (fig.) to get through first difficulties: Break up to break open; Break upon the wheel to punish by stretching a criminal on a wheel and breaking his bones; Break wind to void wind from the stomach; Break with to fail out as friends may do.
n. a large wagonette: a carriage frame all wheels and no body used in breaking in horses.
錄入:提托
娱乐性解釋/意思:
Breakage is a bad dream. To dream of breaking any of your limbs, denotes bad management and probable failures. To break furniture, denotes domestic quarrels and an unquiet state of the mind. To break a window, signifies bereavement. To see a broken ring order will be displaced by furious and dangerous uprisings, such as jealous contentions often cause.
布莱恩錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- It's a pity he should break his neck himself, and disappoint the sight-seers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But it was good to break that off a little. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Again, a minute bit of bark has been upturned by the scraping hand, and the direction of the break indicates the direction of the passage. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Your army will cheerfully suffer many privations to break up Hood's army and render it useless for future operations. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They are but few, I hope; but I have seen (in this world here where I find myself, and even at the little Break of Day) that there are such people. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Was there left now nothing but to break off from the happy creative being, was the time up? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He was father's partner, and father broke with him, and now he revenges himself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- No, guardian, I returned, fearful of the light that dimly broke upon me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She knows I'm a going to tell,' here his delight broke out again, 'and has made off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- When Mrs. Sykes is afraid of the house being attacked and broke open--as she is every night--I get quite excited. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This work proved too hard, his health broke down, and he was compelled to give up the position. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Bloody insurrections repeatedly broke out, always traceable ultimately to the pressure of taxation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The ice, you see, was broken between us--and I thought I would take care, on the next occasion, that Mr. Betteredge was out of the way. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The animal was not there at all, only the heavy, broken beauty. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And you would find the habit was broken. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- His speech had been whispered, broken, and indistinct; but by a great effort he had made it plain enough to be unmistakeable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- For Frederick had broken down now, and all his theories were of no use to him. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The effect instantly ceases when the current is interrupted by breaking connection with either pole of the battery. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I will try to be worthy, he said, breaking off before he could say of you as well as of her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Men cannot live by thought alone; the world of sense is always breaking in upon them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The 'young gal' likewise occasioned me some uneasiness: not so much by neglecting to wash the plates, as by breaking them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He knew how near to breaking was the vessel that held his life. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He did not care if in breaking Germany Europe was broken; his mind did not go far enough beyond the Rhine to understand that possibility. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The want of relation in the ideas breaks the relation of the impressions, and by such a separation prevents their mutual operation and influence. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- His services, with rare exceptions, grow less valuable as he advances in age and nervous strain breaks him down. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But no love shines on her brow, Nor breaks she a marriage-vow, Love is colder. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- But don't look sad, my little girl; it breaks my heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A great bank, half a mile out, nigh the mouth of the bay, breaks the force of the main ocean coming in from the offing. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- At No. 3 a tin dipper, which has been immersed in liquid air, has become so cold and crystalline that it breaks like glass when dropped. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
整理:莉莲