喜樂美語

核心畫面

Something that was once whole is now in pieces, or no longer holds together the way it should.

可以想成「本來好好的、完整的一個東西，現在裂了、碎了、或不再連在一起」：原本該是一整塊、該順順運作的，現在中間斷開了…更多收起可以想成「本來好好的、完整的一個東西，現在裂了、碎了、或不再連在一起」：原本該是一整塊、該順順運作的，現在中間斷開了。從這個「完整被打破」的畫面出發，broken 既可以講實際摔碎的杯子，也可以講壞掉的機器、斷掉的骨頭，甚至碎掉的心。

原始詞典資料19 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。

Brokenname

  • 1

    derogatoryslangTorres Strait Creole.

brokenadj/ˈbɹəʊ.kn̩/

  • 1

    Fragmented; in separate pieces.

    • One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.
    • Local people say there were Russian and Chechen forces here.[…]Over here on the wall, one interesting detail- a single word, which someone has written in broken English: "Sori".
  • 2

    Fragmented; in separate pieces.

    • My arm is broken!
    • The ground was littered with broken bones.
  • 3

    Fragmented; in separate pieces.

    • A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken.
  • 4

    Fragmented; in separate pieces.

  • 5

    Fragmented; in separate pieces.

    • Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.
  • 6

    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesFragmented; in separate pieces.

    • Tomorrow: broken skies.
  • 7

    Fragmented; in separate pieces.

    • A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]
  • 8

    Breached; violated; not kept.

    • broken promises of neutrality
    • broken vows
另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Non-functional; not functioning properly.

    • I think my doorbell is broken.
  • 10

    Non-functional; not functioning properly.

  • 11

    informalNon-functional; not functioning properly.

    • This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.
  • 12

    Non-functional; not functioning properly.

    • 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.
    • Don't say it in Russian / Don't say it in German / Say it in broken English
  • 13

    Non-functional; not functioning properly.

    • 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.
    • He said, "Son, when you grow up / Would you be the savior of the broken / The beaten, and the damned?"
  • 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

    hobbieslifestylesportsOverpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.

    • This item is incredibly broken. I win almost every run I get to use it.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。