某種好東西也空了
把「戶頭空了、還不出來」搬到錢以外的東西上：一個人、一個政黨、一部作品，被說成在某種好品質上已經沒有存量可以拿出來。
completely lacking a quality · adjective · C1
Completely without a particular good quality, such as new ideas or fair behaviour.
徹底缺乏的
核心畫面
Picture the point where the money simply runs out: the bills come in, you turn out every pocket, and there is nothing left to pay them with. Not short this month, not waiting for the salary — empty, with debts still standing. The English word puts a broken piece of furniture inside that picture (bank + rupt, 'the bench broken'), which is why it always sounds final rather than temporary: the thing you did business on has come apart. Once you have that picture, the other uses follow easily. The state can be given to a person, a company or a country, someone can push another party into it, and the same emptiness can be said of qualities instead of money.
可以想成錢真的用完的那一刻：帳單寄來了，把每個口袋都翻出來，卻沒有東西可以拿去付。不是這個月手頭緊，也不是在等薪水入…更多收起
可以想成錢真的用完的那一刻：帳單寄來了，把每個口袋都翻出來，卻沒有東西可以拿去付。不是這個月手頭緊，也不是在等薪水入帳——是空了，而債還在那裡。這個英文字的畫面裡還擺著一件壞掉的家具（bank＋rupt，「檯子斷了」），所以它聽起來一向是終局，而不是暫時的難關：你做生意靠的那張檯子已經散了。抓住這個畫面，其他用法就好接了——這個狀態可以落在一個人、一家公司或一個國家身上，也可以是某一方把另一方推進去的，而同樣的「空」還能拿來說品質，不只說錢。From the word’s history
The adjective enters English in the 1560s from Italian 'banca rotta', literally 'a broken bench': 'banca' is the moneylender's bench or shop, and 'rotta' is Latin 'rupta', the feminine past participle of 'rumpere' = 'to break' (the same root as rupture and interrupt). It points, at least as a figure of speech, to an old custom of breaking the bench of a trader who could no longer pay. The noun ('insolvent person') is recorded from the 1530s and the verb ('make insolvent') from the 1550s. The non-money sense, 'lacking some essential quality', is already there by the 1580s.
這個形容詞在 1560 年代從義大利文 banca rotta 進入英文，字面就是「斷掉的檯子」：banca 指錢莊、放款人擺的那張長檯，rotta 來自拉丁文 rupta，是 rumpere「打破」的過去分詞（rupture 破裂、interrupt 打斷都是同一個根）。它指向的是一個舊說法——付不出錢的商人，檯子會被打斷。名詞「破產者」1530 年代就有紀錄，動詞「使破產」則在 1550 年代。至於跟錢無關的那個意思「徹底缺了某種好東西」，1580 年代也已經在用了。知道 bank＋rupt 這個組合，就比較好記住這個字為什麼帶著「散掉、回不去」的味道，而不只是「沒錢」。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'bankrupt'
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Also in this word
unable to pay debts · adjective · B1
Unable to pay the money you owe.
破產的
make bankrupt · verb · B2
To make a person, business, or country unable to pay their debts, or very poor.
使破產
a bankrupt (person) · noun · C1
A person who a court has officially said cannot pay their debts.
破產者
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bankruptadj/ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/
- 1
businessfinanceIn a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.
- a bankrupt merchant
- "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
- 2
Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.
- a morally bankrupt politician
- a creatively bankrupt endeavor
bankruptverb/ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/
- 1
To force into bankruptcy.
- The cost of the Mendip line had, however, bankrupted the S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway], and it was leased to the two larger companies for 999 years in 1875, and named the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.
- 2
card-gamesgamesto get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule
bankruptnoun/ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/
- 1
One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.
- 2
obsoletelawA trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。