broken
英 ['brəʊk(ə)n]
美 ['brokən]
- adj. 破碎的；壞掉的
- v. 折斷；打碎；損壞（break的過去分詞）
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，但到後來，那些受傷的地方會變得更堅強。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
- 2. His jaw was broken after he was hit on the head.
- 他的頭部受重擊之後下頜骨折了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Everything breakable had been broken and scattered chaotically about the room.
- 房間裏能打碎的東西都打碎了，一片狼藉。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. They've torn down wooden fences and broken branches off trees.
- 他們拆掉了木柵欄，並砍去了一些樹枝。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The landscape is broken only by a string of villages.
- 這片風景中隻有一排村莊。
來自柯林斯例句