breakthrough

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An advance through and past enemy lines.
  2. Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
    — Albert Einstein is credited with making some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern physics.
  3. The penetration of the opposition's defence.
    — But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.
  4. The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends.
  5. The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment. attributive,sometimes
    — She was on two antiepileptics for five years but then had a breakthrough seizure.
形容词 adj.
  1. Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle. not-comparable
    — a breakthrough technological advance
  2. Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease. not-comparable
    — Breakthrough infections (urine infections that develop in children on antibiotics) can occasionally occur, and if they do, different preventative antibiotics can be given or sometimes surgery to fix the leaky valve can be undertaken.

词形变化

breakthru alternative,US,nonstandard breakthroughs plural breakthru alternative,US,nonstandard

词汇关系

衍生词
breakthrough bleeding

词源

词源 1
From break + through. Compare German Durchbruch and Dutch doorbraak (“breakthrough”, literally “through-break”).
词源 2
From break + through. Compare German Durchbruch and Dutch doorbraak (“breakthrough”, literally “through-break”).
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