动词词组 BREAK 4

词组讲解

1. break one's heart ** 使伤心

解 习语；词义溯源：打碎某人的［心（heart）］

例 The children have been looking forward to this for weeks. If you don't take them to

Disneyland, you'll break their hearts. Can't you delay your trip until next week? Surely your

manager would understand—he has children too and he knows how terrible it is for the kids if you

have to cancel something like this.

2. break sb. or sth. down / break down sb. or sth. ***制服，压倒；毁坏，破坏；出毛

病；分解，分析

解 短语动词；词义溯源：［向下（down）］破坏（某人或某物）

例 The Egyptians had spent weeks building massive walls of sand around their positions. The

Israelis took only hours to break them down with the ingenious use of water cannons¹. War after

war, the ingenuity² of the Israeli military proved to be the small nation's key to survival.

3. break sb. or sth. up / break up ***（使）捧腹大笑；打碎；崩溃；分开（成套的物

品）；结束，停止

解 〈口〉短语动词；词义溯源：［完全（up）］打碎、拆开

例 Nobody expected the Soviet³ Union to break up so rapidly and thoroughly⁴. Even NATO

found the pace astonishing and tried to help the Soviets⁵ slow the dissolution to a manageable pace.

4. break the ice ** 破冰，打破沉默，打破僵局

解 习语；词义溯源：打碎［冰冷感、冷漠、冷淡（ice）］

例 Ilike to have everybody introduce themselves in the first class to sort of break the ice.

Once everybody knows who the others are, the tension of unfamiliarity⁶ eases considerably⁷ and

everyone feels free to talk.

5. break the news to sb. ** 把坏消息告诉某人

解 习语；词义溯源：向某人透露［消息（news）］

例 During the war, special agents were trained to visit the homes of dead and missing soldiers

to break the news to the family. It was no easy task telling a mother she had lost her son in an

unpopular war in some distant land. Still, somebody had to do it.

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