broken

英 ['br??k(?)n] 美['brok?n]

CET4TEM4CET6低頻詞基本詞匯

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]

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，但到后來(lái)，那些受傷的地方會(huì)變得更堅(jiān)強(qiáng)。

3. Everything breakable had been broken and scattered chaotically about the room.: 房間里能打碎的東西都打碎了，一片狼藉。

4. They've torn down wooden fences and broken branches off trees.: 他們拆掉了木柵欄，并砍去了一些樹(shù)枝。

5. The landscape is broken only by a string of villages.: 這片風(fēng)景中只有一排村莊。