broken
英 ['br??k(?)n]
美 ['brok?n]
- adj. 破碎的；壞掉的
- v. 折斷；打碎；損壞（break的過(guò)去分詞）
英文詞源
- 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]
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger at the broken places.
- 生活總是讓我們遍體鱗傷，但到后來(lái)，那些受傷的地方會(huì)變得更堅(jiān)強(qiáng)。
來(lái)自金山詞霸 每日一句
- 2. His jaw was broken after he was hit on the head.
- 他的頭部受重?fù)糁笙骂M骨折了。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. Everything breakable had been broken and scattered chaotically about the room.
- 房間里能打碎的東西都打碎了，一片狼藉。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. They've torn down wooden fences and broken branches off trees.
- 他們拆掉了木柵欄，并砍去了一些樹(shù)枝。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. The landscape is broken only by a string of villages.
- 這片風(fēng)景中只有一排村莊。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句