词组讲解
1. Break a leg! * 祝演出成功;祝好运
解 俚语;词义溯源:行屈膝礼;Good luck的俚语表达方式,主要用于祝福即将登台的
演员演出成功,可以联想一下,当演出圆满结束时,观众对演员报以热烈的掌声,演员行
屈膝礼谢幕
例 Before I left the house last night, my brother, Song Yi, told me to “break a leg” at the
2. break down ***(机器、汽车等)出故障,抛锚;(反抗、交涉、计划等)失败;
(健康、精神等)垮掉
解 短语动词;词义溯源:因[停顿、摔倒、衰弱(down)]而破碎
例 It's a good idea to always keep a blanket, extra water and some kind of
expedient5 food and
snacks in the trunk of your car. If your car breaks down on one of these lonely roads, it could be
hours before another car passes.
3. break even **打成平手;得失相当;不盈不亏
解 习语;词义溯源:成为[同样的、对等的、均衡的(even)]状态
例 As long as we can continue to only break even, there's no way we can give anybody in the
company a pay raise. I know you worked very hard to keep us from losing money last year, but
I'm certainly not happy with making no profit either. Make us a profit and then we can talk about
pay raises.
4. break ground for sth. / break ground **动工;开垦;开始(新的事业)
解 习语;词义溯源:[为(for)]某事而破[土(ground)]
例 Ithink construction of the shopping mall project in Subang Jaya started last month. I'm
pretty sure I saw something in the daily newspaper when I was in Kuala Lumpur that said they had
broken ground for it. There was a picture of a ground-breaking ceremony on the front page.
5. break in on sb. or sth. / break in ***突然闯入;插话
解 短语动词;词义溯源:[朝着(on)]某人或某物闯[入(in)]
例 I'll never forget the night the President was killed. I was watching a TV program when an
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