英语词典 · 单词释义
broken
英 ['brəʊk(ə)n] 美 ['brokən]
这里集中整理“broken”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- adj. 破碎的；坏掉的
- v. 折断；打碎；损坏（break的过去分词）
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词源 · 例句 · 用法英文词源
- broken (adj.)
- late 14c., past participle adjective from break (v.). Broken record in reference to someone continually repeating the same thing is from 1944, in reference to scratches on records that cause the needle to jump back and repeat.
When Britain's Minister of State, Selwyn Lloyd[,] became bored with a speech by Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in UN debate, he borrowed a Dizzy Gillespie bebop expression and commented: "Dig that broken record." While most translators pondered the meaning, a man who takes English and puts it into Chinese gave this translation: "Recover the phonograph record which you have discarded." ["Jet," Oct. 15, 1953]
双语例句
- 1. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger at the broken places.
- 生活总是让我们遍体鳞伤，但到后来，那些受伤的地方会变得更坚强。
来自金山词霸 每日一句
- 2. His jaw was broken after he was hit on the head.
- 他的头部受重击之后下颌骨折了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Everything breakable had been broken and scattered chaotically about the room.
- 房间里能打碎的东西都打碎了，一片狼藉。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. They've torn down wooden fences and broken branches off trees.
- 他们拆掉了木栅栏，并砍去了一些树枝。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The landscape is broken only by a string of villages.
- 这片风景中只有一排村庄。
来自柯林斯例句