首页英语词典breakbreak英英释意

break

英[breɪk] 美[brek]
  • v. 打破;折断;弄坏;削弱
  • vt. (使)破;打破(纪录);(常指好天气)突变;开始
  • vi. (嗓音)突变;突破;破晓;(价格)突然下跌
  • n. 破裂;间断;(持续一段时间的状况的)改变;间歇
  • n. (Break)人名;(英)布雷克

英英释意


1. some abrupt occurrence that interrupts;
"the telephone is an annoying interruption"
"there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"
2. an unexpected piece of good luck;
"he finally got his big break"
3. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
"they built it right over a geological fault"
4. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);
"they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
5. a pause from doing something (as work);
"we took a 10-minute break"
"he took time out to recuperate"
6. the act of breaking something;
"the breakage was unavoidable"
7. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
8. breaking of hard tissue such as bone;
"it was a nasty fracture"
"the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
9. the occurrence of breaking;
"the break in the dam threatened the valley"
10. the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
11. (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving;
"he was up two breaks in the second set"
12. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity;
"it was presented without commercial breaks"
13. a sudden dash;
"he made a break for the open door"
14. any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare;
"the break in the eighth frame cost him the match"
15. an escape from jail;
"the breakout was carefully planned"