break down

英 [breɪk daʊn]

美 [breɪk daʊn]

（机器或车辆）出毛病，损坏; （讨论、关系或系统）失败，破裂，失灵; 分解; 将…分成若干部分; （使）（物质）分解; 感情失控（痛哭起来）; 捣毁; 拆除; 消除，破除（障碍或偏见）

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• PHRASAL VERB （机器或车辆）出毛病，损坏
  If a machine or a vehiclebreaks down, it stops working.
  1. Their car broke down.
     他们的车子出故障了。
• PHRASAL VERB （讨论、关系或系统）失败，破裂，失灵
  If a discussion, relationship, or systembreaks down, it fails because of a problem or disagreement.
  1. Talks with business leaders broke down last night...
     昨晚与商界领导人的谈判破裂了。
  2. Paola's marriage broke down.
     葆拉的婚姻破裂了。
• PHRASAL VERB 分解；将…分成若干部分
  Tobreak downsomething such as an idea or statement means to separate it into smaller parts in order to make it easier to understand or deal with.
  1. The report breaks down the results region by region...
     报告将调查结果按地区分成若干部分。
  2. These rules tell us how a sentence is broken down into phrases.
     这些规则告诉我们一个句子是怎样分解成若干短语的。
• PHRASAL VERB-ERG （使）（物质）分解
  When a substancebreaks downor when somethingbreaksitdown, a biological or chemical process causes it to separate into the substances which make it up.
  1. Over time, the protein in the eggshell breaks down into its constituent amino acids...
     时间久了，蛋壳中的蛋白质就会分解为其构成成分氨基酸。
  2. The oil is attacked by naturally occurring microbes which break it down.
     原油受到了自然产生的分解油类物质的微生物的侵蚀。
• PHRASAL VERB 感情失控（痛哭起来）
  If someonebreaks down, they lose control of themselves and start crying.
  1. Because he was being so kind and concerned, I broke down and cried...
     他如此体贴关心，令我忍不住失声痛哭。
  2. The young woman broke down in tears.
     这名年轻妇人痛哭流涕。
• PHRASAL VERB 捣毁；拆除
  If youbreak downa door or barrier, you hit it so hard that it falls to the ground.
  1. An unruly mob broke down police barricades and stormed the courtroom...
     一伙暴徒捣毁了警察设置的路障冲进法庭。
  2. Firemen were called after his father failed to break the door down.
     他的父亲没能把门砸开，后来就把消防员叫来了。
• PHRASAL VERB 消除，破除（障碍或偏见）
  Tobreak downbarriers or prejudices that separate people or restrict their freedom means to change people's attitudes so that the barriers or prejudices no longer exist.
  1. His early experience enabled him to break down barriers between Scottish Catholics and Protestants.
     他早年的经历使他能够消除苏格兰天主教徒和新教徒之间的隔阂。
• See also:breakdownbroken-down

英英释义

verb

• collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
  Synonym:collapse
• separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
  Synonym:decomposebreak up
• stop operating or functioning
  1. The engine finally went
  2. The car died on the road
  3. The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
  4. The coffee maker broke
  5. The engine failed on the way to town
  6. her eyesight went after the accident
  Synonym:failgo badgive waydiegive outconk outgobreak
• make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of
  1. analyze a specimen
  2. analyze a sentence
  3. analyze a chemical compound
  Synonym:analyzeanalysedissecttake apart
• make ineffective
  1. Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination
  Synonym:crush
• cause to fall or collapse
• lose control of one's emotions
  1. When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely
  2. When her baby died, she snapped
  Synonym:lose itsnap
• fall apart
  1. the building crumbled after the explosion
  2. Negotiations broke down
  Synonym:crumblecrumpletumblecollapse

双语例句

• Talks with business leaders broke down last night
  昨晚与商界领导人的谈判破裂了。
• We're trying to break down barriers between young people from both communities.
  我们正试图消除两个不同社区的年轻人之间的隔阂。
• Over time, the protein in the eggshell breaks down into its constituent amino acids
  时间久了，蛋壳中的蛋白质就会分解为其构成成分氨基酸。
• The young woman broke down in tears.
  这名年轻妇人痛哭流涕。
• When marriages break down children are swept into the vortex of their parents 'embittered emotions.
  当婚姻破裂时，孩子们也被卷进父母感情日益恶化的漩涡中。
• Pull yourself together. Don't have a nervous break down on me now.
  控制你的情绪，别让我紧张得快崩溃了。
• These rules tell us how a sentence is broken down into phrases.
  这些规则告诉我们一个句子是怎样分解成若干短语的。
• But let's go through these three possibilities and break down the advantages and disadvantages.
  但是让经过这三个可能性和打破利弊。
• The oil is attacked by naturally occurring microbes which break it down.
  原油受到了自然产生的分解油类物质的微生物的侵蚀。
• Marriages usually break down as a result of the shortcomings of both partners
  婚姻常因为配偶双方的缺点而破裂。