喜樂美語
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    /ˈbreɪkθruː/

    an important new discovery or step forward in something you are studying or working on, especially one that comes after you have been trying for a long time.

    突破；重大進展

    複數 breakthroughs

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

You can hold it as the moment the wall finally gives: you have been pushing at the same problem for a long time, getting nowhere, and then one discovery breaks through and the way forward opens up. The word carries both parts — the long stuck stretch before, and the sudden opening.

可以想成一堵牆終於被推破的那一刻：同一個問題你已經卡了很久，怎麼弄都過不去，然後某個發現一來，牆破了，前面的路突然通…更多收起可以想成一堵牆終於被推破的那一刻：同一個問題你已經卡了很久，怎麼弄都過不去，然後某個發現一來，牆破了，前面的路突然通了。這個字有意思的地方在於它同時帶著兩段——前面那段推不動的漫長時間，和後面那一下豁然開朗。所以 breakthrough 不會用在隨手就想到的小點子上，它的分量來自之前卡住的時間。

原始詞典資料7 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。

breakthroughadj/ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/

  • 1

    Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

    • a breakthrough technological advance
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    immunologymedicinesciencesInvolving 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.

    • 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.
    • There is also growing evidence that while Omicron may cause many breakthrough cases among previously infected or previously vaccinated populations, the morbidity and mortality associated with the disease among them will be lower, they added.

breakthroughnoun/ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/

  • 1

    governmentmilitarypoliticsAn 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.
    • In [Raymond] Kurzweil’s future, biotechnology and nanotechnology give us the power to manipulate our bodies and the world around us at will, at the molecular level. Progress hyperaccelerates, and every hour brings a century’s worth of scientific breakthroughs.
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    hobbieslifestylesportsThe 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.
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    businessconstructionmanufacturingThe 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.

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    medicinesciencesThe emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.

    • She was on two antiepileptics for five years but then had a breakthrough seizure.
    • He was managing his discomfort with common painkillers, but one morning he had breakthrough pain causing him to miss work.

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。