喜樂美語

核心畫面

Pressure building up inside something until it suddenly breaks open and what was held in comes rushing out all at once. Every other sense — the sudden movement, the short loud burst of sound, the burst of feeling — keeps this same shape: too much held in, then a sudden release.

可以想成裡面的壓力越積越大，大到某一刻突然『砰』地破開，憋在裡頭的東西一下子全衝了出來。burst 後面所有的意思都…更多收起可以想成裡面的壓力越積越大，大到某一刻突然『砰』地破開，憋在裡頭的東西一下子全衝了出來。burst 後面所有的意思都保留這個形狀：先是憋著、滿著、忍著，然後在一瞬間突然爆發、釋放出來——不管衝出來的是水、是人、是聲音，還是一股情緒。

原始詞典資料14 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。

burstverb/bɜːst/

  • 1

    To break from internal pressure.

    • I blew the balloon up too much, and it burst.
  • 2

    To cause to break from internal pressure.

    • I burst the balloon when I blew it up too much.
  • 3

    obsoleteTo cause to break by any means.

    • You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?
    • He burst his lance against the sand below.
  • 4

    To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.

    • I printed the report on form-feed paper, then burst the sheets.
  • 5

    To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.

    • 1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr. Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
  • 6

    To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.

    • The flowers burst into bloom on the first day of spring.
    • ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.
  • 7

    To produce as an effect of bursting.

    • to burst a hole through the wall
    • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
  • 8

    To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.

    • The sharp report of a gun burst the silence, and a moment later the gate swung open.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Of neurons: to exhibit an activation pattern where periods of rapid action potential spiking are followed by quiescent periods much longer than typical interspike intervals.

burstnoun/bɜːst/

  • 1

    An act or instance of bursting.

    • The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
  • 2

    A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.

    • I read it in two bursts.
    • "It's my wedding-day," cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!"
  • 3

    A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.

  • 4

    governmentmilitarypoliticsThe explosion of a bomb or missile.

    • a ground burst; a surface burst
  • 5

    archaicA drinking spree.

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。