A breaker is a big sea wave that turns over and falls as it comes towards the shore, with white foam along the top. Out in deep water a wave just rolls along; when it reaches shallow water near the beach, the bottom of the wave slows down, the top keeps going, and the wave tips over — it breaks. A wave doing that is a breaker.

A breaker is a big sea waveBreaker是指一個大海浪that turns over and falls as it comes towards the shore往岸邊靠近時會翻捲並倒下with white foam along the top頂端帶著白色泡沫Out in deep water a wave just rolls along在深水裡，浪就只是往前滾動when it reaches shallow water near the beach當它到達海灘附近的淺水區the bottom of the wave slows down浪的底部會變慢the top keeps going上面卻繼續往前and the wave tips over浪就會翻倒it breaks也就是breaks（碎掉）A wave doing that is a breaker這樣的浪就叫做breaker

You mostly meet the word in the plural, describing what the sea looks like: 'huge breakers crashing on the rocks', 'the breakers rolled in all afternoon'. It has a slightly literary, picture-painting feel — it is common in stories, poems, and travel writing, and less common in everyday speech, where people just say 'big waves'. Surfers do use it, though.

You mostly meet the word in the plural你大多會看到這個字用複數形式describing what the sea looks like用來描述海面的樣子'huge breakers crashing on the rocks'「huge breakers crashing on the rocks」（巨浪拍打在礁石上）'the breakers rolled in all afternoon'「the breakers rolled in all afternoon」（碎浪整個下午不斷湧來）It has a slightly literary, picture-painting feel帶有一點文學、畫面感很強的語感it is common in stories, poems, and travel writing常見於故事、詩和遊記and less common in everyday speech在日常口語裡比較少見where people just say 'big waves'人們通常就直接說「big waves」Surfers do use it, though不過衝浪的人確實會用這個字

Two other meanings will cross your path. A circuit breaker (often shortened to just 'breaker') is the switch in your electricity box that cuts the power when there is too much current — 'the breaker tripped again'. And a breaker can be a machine or a person that breaks things up: a rock breaker, a code breaker, a strike breaker.

Two other meanings will cross your path還有兩個其他意思你會遇到A circuit breaker電路裡的circuit breaker（斷路器）(often shortened to just 'breaker')（常常簡稱breaker）is the switch in your electricity box that cuts the power when there is too much current是電箱裡在電流過大時會切斷電源的開關'the breaker tripped again'「the breaker tripped again」（斷路器又跳了）And a breaker can be a machine or a person that breaks things up而breaker也可以是把東西弄破的機器或人a rock breaker, a code breaker, a strike breaker像是碎石機、破解密碼的人、罷工破壞者

All of these are the same idea underneath — the thing that does the breaking — but the wave meaning is the one that stands most on its own, because there the wave breaks itself.

All of these are the same idea underneath這些底層都是同一個概念the thing that does the breaking也就是「做出破壞這件事的東西」but the wave meaning is the one that stands most on its own但海浪這個意思最能獨立存在because there the wave breaks itself因為在那裡，是浪自己弄破自己