- 1v/ˈʃætər/ · /ˈʃætə/break into tiny pieces碎裂 / 粉碎
To break suddenly into a lot of very small pieces, or to make something break in this way.
文法及物、不及物兩種都可以：後面可以接受詞，也可以不接。
「shatter」跟 break 的差別在碎的程度和速度：break 只說壞了，shatter 是「啪」一聲整個散成一堆小碎片，最典型的就是玻璃。所以選 shatter，等於順便告訴聽的人「撿不回來了、而且要小心碎片」。它可以自己當主詞（The glass shattered.），也可以由人或東西去打碎它（A ball shattered the window.），兩種用法一樣常見。中文「碎滿地」的那個畫面就是它。
示範例句 · Example
The bowl slipped from Ren's hands and shattered on the kitchen floor.
中文翻譯那個碗從任的手中滑掉，然後在廚房地板上碎裂了。
常見搭配
shatter into pieces
碎成一片片
to break into many small pieces
The plate hit the floor and shattered into tiny pieces.
glass shatters
玻璃碎裂
glass breaks into small sharp pieces
When glass shatters, it leaves jagged edges.
shatter a window
打碎窗戶
to break a window into many pieces
A falling branch shattered the window.
shatterproof glass
防碎玻璃
glass made so that it will not break into sharp pieces
The bus uses shatterproof glass for safety.
- 2v/ˈʃætər/ · /ˈʃætə/shatter hopes or beliefs粉碎 / 擊碎
To completely destroy something that is not a physical object, such as someone's hopes, dreams, beliefs, confidence, or way of life.
文法及物動詞：動作後面要接受詞。
這是 shatter 從「玻璃碎掉」延伸出來的一層：被碎掉的是希望、信心、夢想、生活。它比 end 或 ruin 更重——不是慢慢變糟，是一下子整個碎掉、拼不回去。所以英文說 shattered her dreams，聽的人會感覺到「本來好好的，一瞬間沒了」。常見受詞就那幾個：hopes、dreams、confidence、illusions。
常見搭配
shatter somebody's dreams
粉碎某人的夢想
to make what someone hoped for impossible
The injury shattered his Olympic dream.
shatter somebody's confidence
擊碎某人的信心
to destroy someone's belief in themselves
When she failed the test, it shattered her confidence.
shatter somebody's illusions
打破某人的幻想
to make someone see that what they believed was wrong
The trip shattered my illusions about city life.
shatter a myth
打破一個迷思
to show clearly that a widely held idea is wrong
The study shattered the myth that cats cannot be trained.
- 3v/ˈʃætər/ · /ˈʃætə/shatter the silence打破（寂靜）
If a sudden loud noise shatters the silence or the peace, it breaks it so that everyone hears the noise at once.
這一層把「安靜」當成一片玻璃：一個突然的巨響「啪」一下把它打碎。跟 break the silence 比起來，shatter 更強、更突然，而且發出聲音的通常不是人，是雷、警報、汽車喇叭這類東西。所以 break the silence 常指有人終於開口，shatter the silence 常指一聲巨響砸進來。用了 shatter，讀的人會知道那個安靜是被硬生生打斷的，不是自然結束的。
常見搭配
shatter the silence
打破寂靜
if a loud noise shatters the silence, it suddenly ends it
A shout shattered the silence of the empty street.
shatter the peace
打破寧靜
to suddenly end a calm, quiet time
Roadworks shattered the peace of the whole neighbourhood.
shatter the quiet
劃破安靜
to suddenly interrupt a quiet moment with noise
A dog's bark shattered the quiet of the early morning.
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Shattername
- 1
A surname.
shatterverb/ˈʃætə/
- 1
To violently break something into pieces.
- The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
- a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass
- 2
To destroy or disable something.
- 3
To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- 4
To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- to be shattered in intellect
- to have shattered hopes
- 5
agriculturebusinesslifestyleOf seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
- Harvesting is done much as with alfalfa, but alsike seed is small and shatters if it is not handled carefully.
- 6
obsoleteTo scatter about.
- Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
- 7
To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- Bulletlike rain shattered down. Instantly, Willy was soaked to the skin. Then her right foot skidded out before her, and she felt her balance begin to go. Inevitably and with shocking swiftness came the moment when her body obeyed gravity[…]
- The heavens opened up, and the rain shattered down. She trailed a finger down the window, following drops of water as they splashed and wept down the pane.
shatternoun/ˈʃætə/
- 1
archaicA fragment of anything shattered.
- to break a glass into shatters
- it will fall upon the glass of the sconce, and break it into shatters
- 2
A (pine) needle.
- My usual habit is, as soon as I get my wheat trodden out, and my corn secured in the fall, to litter my farm yard (and if my cultivation is far off, I select some warm spot near the field) with leaves and pine shatters, (preferring the former) ...
- They are preserved in cellars, or out of doors in kilns. The method of fixing them is to raise the ground a few inches, where they are to be placed, and cover with pine shatters to the depth of six inches or more.
- 3
A scattering, a smattering; a quantity of something scattered, like a sprinkling of seeds or a shower of rain.
- There's a tidy shatter of sin already in the Fee, says Parson. Ah, says I, but us can't all be saints like yourself, Parson.
- [He] steps out into the rain. It takes his eyes a moment to adjust, to get used to the misty glow of the moon above them, to take in the wild look of their yard, and the shatter of rain. The insects have escaped it at least, hidden beneath the cover of grass and foliage, beneath the low-hanging branches of the jacarandas and poincianas. Birds huddle there as well,[…]
- 4
slangA form of concentrated cannabis.
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