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英 [breɪk] 美[brek]

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v. 打破；折断；弄坏；削弱
vt. （使）破；打破（纪录）；（常指好天气）突变；开始
vi. （嗓音）突变；突破；破晓；（价格）突然下跌
n. 破裂；间断；（持续一段时间的状况的）改变；间歇
n. (Break)人名；(英)布雷克

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They break routines, because autopilot is death.

She never knows if the egg will break before the design is completed.

I've broken eggs at every stage of the process—from the very beginning to the very, very end.

I felt empowered because I broke through my own limitations, she recalls.

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 ).

Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.

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.

In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

In agrarian ( ' , 农业的 ), 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.

If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.

The most likely type of burglary ( ' , 入室盗窃) by far is the unsophisticated crime of opportunity, usually involving a broken window or some forced entry.

That means defeating the lock somehow, or breaking a window.

Some began to stop taking bathroom breaks, worried that if their productivity fell they would be fired.

Presumably, you keep your doors locked at night and while you're away, so the thief will still need to break in.

He'll need to be jamming you at this point, as a broken window or opened door would normally release the alarm.

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.

But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.

Although Kodak anticipated the inevitable rise of digital photography, its corporate（企业的） culture was too rooted in the successes of the past for it to make the clean break necessary to fully embrace the future.

The traditional textbook model is and has been broken for quite some time.

Thanks to men like Curtice, "the bonds of scarcity" had been broken and America was rolling "to an all-time high of prosperity"

Tax breaks bring the cost down, especially in California, but in many states ZEHs can be prohibitively expensive.

So it's only when the economy is healthy again that we'll begin to see just how many broken families have been created.

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.

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.

so that we don't break any rules

psychiatrist (心理医生) 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.

I've experienced roommate conflicts between interracial students that have both broken down stereotypes and reinforced stereotypes," said one Penn resident advisor (RA).

the consequence of a broken marriage

Five ways to find harmony with the natural world Walk: Break the rhythm of permanently being under a roof

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

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.

Social divisions will break down if people get to know each other

I wonder if I broke something.

Imagine that someone in your neighborhood broke the law, and the judge put the whole neighborhood under suspicion

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.

But she has to make the prison break in her own car.

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.

Often, people break laws simply because the laws are there.

The animal made it to the roof of the building, after it took a long break on a 17th floor window edge.

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.

The one that used to get me was that swans could break your leg with a blow of the wing.

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.

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.

In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.

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.

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.

We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbour's trip to India.

Other initiatives fail to break down the data, too.

So why are American women so far ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?

As for breaking through the glass ceiling in business,American women are well in the lead

Meanwhile, tax breaks for children are modest.

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

It might be tempting, therefore, to think that the old barriers have been broken down and equal opportunity achieved.

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.

I have to get to Manchester today and my own car has broken down.

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

Most of them had broken with their sisters and brothers.

We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys.

He cannot afford to have a coffee break.

People from broken homes and North American Indians are two examples.

People from broken homes often lack stable lives

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.

They broke up more often than same-race roommates

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.

The handle of the suitcase is broken.

It will have little impact on sea level when it breaks up.

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 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

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.

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.

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.

In addition, you can take a cognitive break every 90 minutes to charge your batteries.

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."

We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbor's trip to India.

Approaching the vehicle, they saw that a woman was trying to get out of the broken window.

As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills.

Breaking up firms like Google into five small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again.

But compared with previous studies, she finds the speed of breaking down in this one exciting.

Code breaking never lags (落后) far behind code making.

Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened (蔓上成熟的) promise, I've refused to buy winter tomatoes for years.

For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within.

He broke down as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.

He couldn't return it when it was broken.

Her friends came to help her when the war broke out.

Hi, what will you do with your broken cellphone?

I was now fascinated by the idea of poetry, words that had the power to make or break a person's world.

It is very hard to break a code without the code book.

It should be during the lunch break.

It was built incorrectly and broke in the kiln.

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.

Joe fell and broke his leg.

Norton sound was covered with ice, which could sometimes break up without warning.

Oh my! My car broke down, and I have to meet my aunt at the railway station before noon.

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.

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.

One of the projects was to build a clay pot, but I built mine incorrectly, so it broke in the kiln.

Our class needs to go to the computer room during the morning break on the 18th.

Perhaps the most powerful type of waiting is the lucky-break wait.

Recent studies show that we are far more productive at work if we take short breaks regularly.

Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits.

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.

Russia is another country with population problems that could break its economic promise.

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.

She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks.

Since that first repair job, a broken air-conditioner, a non-functioning washer and a non-toasting toaster have been fixed.

So, if we have this capability but somehow life seems to keep us stuck, how do we break these patterns?

Stop people from breaking traffic rules.

Such situations have led to calls for the tech giants to be broken up.

That season, I broke all of Miller's records while he watched the home games from the bench.

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.

The meetings will start at 10:00 am, and end at 3:00 pm, with a short lunch break.

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.

Then she easily broke it into two pieces.

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.

Unlike the forced wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.

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.

When some refuse vaccination and seek a free ride, immunity breaks down and everyone is in even bigger danger.

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.

You start with English as usual, then business studies and after the break, history and art.

It’s like the teacher who breaks up the troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better-behaved classmates.

Sometimes I feel in his late works a will to break all signs of continuity.

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.

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.

This will help to grow your internal network, in addition to being a nice break in the work day.

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.

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.