broken

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɹəʊ.kn̩/    美 /ˈbɹoʊ.kɪn/|/ˈbɹoʊ.kən/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. past participle of break form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  1. Fragmented; in separate pieces.
    — One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.
  2. Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
    — My arm is broken!
  3. Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Split or ruptured.
    — A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken.
  4. Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
  5. Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Interrupted; not continuous.
    — Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.
  6. Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
    — Tomorrow: broken skies.
  7. Fragmented; in separate pieces.; Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
    — A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]
  8. Breached; violated; not kept.
    — broken promises of neutrality
  9. Non-functional; not functioning properly.
    — I think my doorbell is broken.
  10. Non-functional; not functioning properly.; Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
  11. Non-functional; not functioning properly.; Badly designed or implemented. informal
    — This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
  12. Non-functional; not functioning properly.; Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
    — His conversation was in French with Mailey and Roxton, who both spoke the language well, but he had to fall back upon broken English with Malone, who could only utter still more broken French in reply.
  13. Non-functional; not functioning properly.; Not having gone in the way intended; saddening. US,colloquial
    — Oh man! That is just broken!
  14. Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
    — The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken.
  15. Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
  16. Uneven.
    — All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.
  17. Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
    — This item is incredibly broken. I win almost every run I get to use it.

词形变化

more broken comparative most broken superlative

词汇关系

近义词
banjaxed broken bum busted fractured ruptured
反义词
intact
上位词
deteriorated fragmentary
下位词
heartbroken housebroken jailbroken burst cracked crazed destroyed divided riven shattered split smashed wrecked
衍生词
a broken clock is right twice a day breach break broke broken arrow broken-backed broken bar broken bird broken bones Broken Bow broken breast broken Britain broken by design broken chord broken clock is right twice a day broken clouds broken consort Broken Dam broken diagonal broken down broken English broken field brokenhanded broken-handed Broken Head broken heart brokenhearted broken-hearted broken heart syndrome broken-heart syndrome Broken Hill broken home broken in brokenly broken man broken-mouthed brokenness broken number broken pipe broken plural broken power law broken record broken reed broken rhyme broken skin broken sleep broken source broken tail broken telephone broken time broken vertical bar broken vessel broken wind broken-winded broken window broken windows broken windows policing broken windows theory broken window theory broket half-broken house-broken if it ain't broken, don't fix it Landolt broken ring Night of Broken Glass nonbroken shipbroken the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last trans broken arm syndrome unbroken walk on broken glass
相关词
damaged leaking out of order piece drunk

词源

词源 1
From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). Cognate with Dutch gebroken (“broken”), German Low German broken (“broken”), German gebrochen (“broken”). Morphologically broke + -n.
词源 2
From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). Cognate with Dutch gebroken (“broken”), German Low German broken (“broken”), German gebrochen (“broken”). Morphologically broke + -n.
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