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- v. 打破；折斷；弄壞；削弱
- vt. （使）破；打破（紀錄）；（常指好天氣）突變；開始
- vi. （嗓音）突變；突破；破曉；（價格）突然下跌
- n. 破裂；間斷；（持續一段時間的狀況的）改變；間歇
- n. (Break)人名；(英)布雷克
考試真題
- They break routines, because autopilot is death.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- She never knows if the egg will break before the design is completed.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- I've broken eggs at every stage of the process—from the very beginning to the very, very end.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- I felt empowered because I broke through my own limitations, she recalls.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo ( ' , 禁忌 ).
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In agrarian ( ' , 農業的 ), pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The most likely type of burglary ( ' , 入室盜竊) by far is the unsophisticated crime of opportunity, usually involving a broken window or some forced entry.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- That means defeating the lock somehow, or breaking a window.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Some began to stop taking bathroom breaks, worried that if their productivity fell they would be fired.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Presumably, you keep your doors locked at night and while you're away, so the thief will still need to break in.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- He'll need to be jamming you at this point, as a broken window or opened door would normally release the alarm.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Break the tension with smiles and humor to reinforce the idea that this is friendly discourse and that all are working toward a common goal.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- Although Kodak anticipated the inevitable rise of digital photography, its corporate（企業的） culture was too rooted in the successes of the past for it to make the clean break necessary to fully embrace the future.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- The traditional textbook model is and has been broken for quite some time.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- Thanks to men like Curtice, "the bonds of scarcity" had been broken and America was rolling "to an all-time high of prosperity"
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- Tax breaks bring the cost down, especially in California, but in many states ZEHs can be prohibitively expensive.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- So it's only when the economy is healthy again that we'll begin to see just how many broken families have been created.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- On the other hand,there have been hundreds of thefts and cases of deliberate damaging of public property, which usually involves breaking windows or lights or writing on walls.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- In fact, when you break a role or law, you lose control over your life and give others the power to impose punishment that you have no control over.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
- so that we don't break any rules
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
- psychiatrist (心理醫生) at the University of California, San Diego, said older people are more likely to suffer from broken sleep, while younger people are better at sleeping efficiently straight through the night.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- I've experienced roommate conflicts between interracial students that have both broken down stereotypes and reinforced stereotypes," said one Penn resident advisor (RA).
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- the consequence of a broken marriage
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- Five ways to find harmony with the natural world Walk: Break the rhythm of permanently being under a roof
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- If it's a loss [where] you're not getting to work, and family relationships are breaking down as a result, then it's too much
出自-2010年6月閱讀原文
- She walked to the local grocery store to buy broken biscuits which were much cheaper, and to get a free bone for her much loved dog.
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
- Social divisions will break down if people get to know each other
出自-2012年6月聽力原文
- I wonder if I broke something.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- Imagine that someone in your neighborhood broke the law, and the judge put the whole neighborhood under suspicion
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- Break the tension with smiles and humor to reinforce the idea that this is friendly discourse and that all are working toward a common goal.
2015年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- But she has to make the prison break in her own car.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- In agrarian, pre-industrial Europe, "you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work," says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.
2016年6月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Often, people break laws simply because the laws are there.
2016年6月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- The animal made it to the roof of the building, after it took a long break on a 17th floor window edge.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo.
2016年6月四級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- The one that used to get me was that swans could break your leg with a blow of the wing.
2017年6月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- When the body realizes the muscles are hurt, the response is to increase blood flow to the area and increase body heat, damaged cells are then cleaned up and the body sends cells specially designed to break down the large muscle fiber fragments.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The large base he leads resembles a snowed-in college campus on holiday break, with the capacity to sleep more than 10 times the 13 people who were staying on through the Antarctic winter.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.
出自-2016年12月聽力原文
- We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbour's trip to India.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Other initiatives fail to break down the data, too.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- So why are American women so far ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- As for breaking through the glass ceiling in business,American women are well in the lead
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
- Meanwhile, tax breaks for children are modest.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Thirst grows for living unplugged More people are taking breaks from the connected life amid the stillness and quiet of retreats like the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvania
出自-2012年12月閱讀原文
- It might be tempting, therefore, to think that the old barriers have been broken down and equal opportunity achieved.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- Only four out of the 54 people interviewed had completely broken with their sisters and brothers and only one of the four felt comfortable with the break.
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
- I have to get to Manchester today and my own car has broken down.
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
- Only four out of the 54 people interviewed had completely broken with their sisters and brothers and only one of the four felt comfortable with the break
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
- Most of them had broken with their sisters and brothers.
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
- We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys.
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
- He cannot afford to have a coffee break.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- People from broken homes and North American Indians are two examples.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- People from broken homes often lack stable lives
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.
出自-2012年6月聽力原文
- They broke up more often than same-race roommates
出自-2012年6月聽力原文
- Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- The handle of the suitcase is broken.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- It will have little impact on sea level when it breaks up.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 熱衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl
2017年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.
2019年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- If after work you lie around on your bed and get irritated by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states.
2018年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- I'll start with a brief review of the reasons for the change that we really need to make a clean break to restart growth.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- In addition, you can take a cognitive break every 90 minutes to charge your batteries.
2018年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- The message to young people who might not otherwise be able to afford to break into the business is, "You can purchase this $3 million piece of land here, because I'm guaranteeing you today you'll have 1, 000 Bison on it."
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbor's trip to India.
2015年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Approaching the vehicle, they saw that a woman was trying to get out of the broken window.
2016年高考英語全國卷1 完形填空 原文
- As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.
2016年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills.
2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Breaking up firms like Google into five small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- But compared with previous studies, she finds the speed of breaking down in this one exciting.
2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Code breaking never lags (落后) far behind code making.
2016年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened (蔓上成熟的) promise, I've refused to buy winter tomatoes for years.
2015年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within.
2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- He broke down as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.
2015年高考英語湖北卷 完形填空 原文
- He couldn't return it when it was broken.
2015年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 選項
- Her friends came to help her when the war broke out.
2017年高考英語浙江卷（6月） 完形填空 原文
- Hi, what will you do with your broken cellphone?
2017年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文
- I was now fascinated by the idea of poetry, words that had the power to make or break a person's world.
2016年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- It is very hard to break a code without the code book.
2016年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 選項
- It should be during the lunch break.
2016年高考英語上海卷 聽力 原文
- It was built incorrectly and broke in the kiln.
2015年高考英語湖南卷 答案 選項
- Jennifer Debruyn, a microbiologist at the university of tennessee, who was not involved in the study, says it is not surprising that such worms can break down polyethylene.
2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Joe fell and broke his leg.
2014年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文
- Norton sound was covered with ice, which could sometimes break up without warning.
2016年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文
- Oh my! My car broke down, and I have to meet my aunt at the railway station before noon.
2014年高考英語全國卷1 聽力 原文
- On the surface it seems as ridiculous as following the directions on soup mixes, but the lucky-break wait well serves those who are willing to do it.
2017年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action only sure that it will do so sometime.
2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- One of the projects was to build a clay pot, but I built mine incorrectly, so it broke in the kiln.
2015年高考英語湖南卷 閱讀表達 原文
- Our class needs to go to the computer room during the morning break on the 18th.
2016年高考英語上海卷 聽力 原文
- Perhaps the most powerful type of waiting is the lucky-break wait.
2017年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Recent studies show that we are far more productive at work if we take short breaks regularly.
2016年高考英語全國卷2 語法填空 原文
- Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits.
2018年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Researchers in spain and england recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene, which accounts for 40% of plastics.
2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Russia is another country with population problems that could break its economic promise.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 任務型閱讀 原文
- See, your computer has broken down again! It doesn't make sense to buy the cheapest brand of computer just to save a few dollars.
2015年高考英語天津卷 單項填空 原文
- She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks.
2015年高考英語安徽卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- Since that first repair job, a broken air-conditioner, a non-functioning washer and a non-toasting toaster have been fixed.
2016年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- So, if we have this capability but somehow life seems to keep us stuck, how do we break these patterns?
2015年高考英語福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Stop people from breaking traffic rules.
2017年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 選項
- Such situations have led to calls for the tech giants to be broken up.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- That season, I broke all of Miller's records while he watched the home games from the bench.
2016年高考英語全國卷3 完形填空 原文
- The bus hit a lamp post and it broke the glass on the front door before Harvold managed to bring the bus to a stop.
2017年高考英語浙江卷（11月） 完形填空 原文
- The meetings will start at 10:00 am, and end at 3:00 pm, with a short lunch break.
2015年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文
- The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it.
2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Then she easily broke it into two pieces.
2015年高考英語安徽卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- They rose in the ranks not by being friendly but by smoking cigarettes, breaking rules and playing jokes on others, among whom I soon found myself.
2019年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Unlike the forced wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.
2017年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- When a new day breaks, the walls have given up their heat and are now cold enough to cool the house during the hot day; at the same time, they warm up again for the night.
2015年高考英語全國卷2 語法填空 原文
- When some refuse vaccination and seek a free ride, immunity breaks down and everyone is in even bigger danger.
2017年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- When the container is full, you can suck the refreshment out through the tube, and won't have to break down the still every time you need a drink.
2017年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- You start with English as usual, then business studies and after the break, history and art.
2016年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文
- It’s like the teacher who breaks up the troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better-behaved classmates.
出自-2012年考研閱讀原文
- Sometimes I feel in his late works a will to break all signs of continuity.
出自-2014年考研翻譯原文
- We don’t have to learn how to be mentally healthy ;it it built into us that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend a broken bone.
出自-2016年考研翻譯原文
- Quotas get action: they "open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling, " according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.
2013年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- This will help to grow your internal network, in addition to being a nice break in the work day.
2020年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Tronick believes that just because a child isn't learning from the screen doesn't mean there's no value to it -- particularly if it gives parents time to have a shower, do housework or simply have a break from their child.
2017年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- When women do break through to the summit of corporate power—as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.
2013年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ