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A：This will be your office here.
这就是你的办公室。
B：A corner office? Really? Wow, this is great!
一间办公室，真的吗？太棒了！
A：We try to give everyone in the upper management team a nice office. After all, you will be spending a lot of time in here.
我们尽力为高层管理团队中的每个成员安排一间比较好的办公室。毕竟你要在那里呆很长时间。
B：I suppose so. It’s great.
我也这样认为。真不错。
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A：On Monday, we’ll give you the keys to the company car. You can use it for personal use, but make sure to keep track of the gas you use. We’ll reimburse you for the upkeep and the gas you use for business.
我们周一会给你公司汽车的钥匙。你可以作为私车使用，但一定要记下用油量。我们会为你报销汽车的保养费和汽车作为公用时的油费。
B：Is there a coffee machine around here?
这附近有咖啡机吗？
A：Yes, we have a coffee machine and some other beverages in the break room.
有，休息室里有咖啡机和其他饮料。
B：Where’s that again?
休息室在哪里呢？
A：It’s just down the hall, the fourth door on your right.
在大厅下面，你右边的第四间。
B：Got it.
知道了。
A：You can always call me if you need anything and I will get it for you. That’s one of my duties as your personal assistant.
如果你有什么需要可以随时叫我，我会帮你解决。作为你的私人助理，这是我的部分职责。
1. 分解：这样便会使到分裂时出现困难,分解(break down)时会释放大量「怒气」,是为放热(exothermic)反应. 当一女子和一位男士相爱时,发现另一位条件更好的男子,而令到原来的男友成为好的离开组合(leaving group),亲核取代反应(nucleophilic substitution)便能发生.
2. 破坏：这种球如果在在高黏度、长油的情形下,可能表现的比较好,但是在球道的平整性不佳,油层薄且稀、再加上空调不足所造成前段油层迅速被后带(Carry down)甚至被破坏(Break down)、与球瓶的重量较轻....等因素都是会造成这种顶级球的反应过度(Overreacting),
1. （机器或车辆）出毛病，损坏
If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
e.g. Their car broke down.
他们的车子出故障了。
2. （讨论、关系或系统）失败，破裂，失灵
If a discussion, relationship, or system breaks down, it fails because of a problem or disagreement.
e.g. Talks with business leaders broke down last night...
昨晚与商界领导人的谈判破裂了。
e.g. Paola''s marriage broke down.
葆拉的婚姻破裂了。
3. 分解；将…分成若干部分
To break down something such as an idea or statement means to separate it into smaller parts in order to make it easier to understand or deal with.
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e.g. The report breaks down the results region by region...
报告将调查结果按地区分成若干部分。
e.g. These rules tell us how a sentence is broken down into phrases.
这些规则告诉我们一个句子是怎样分解成若干短语的。
4. （使）（物质）分解
When a substance breaks down or when something breaks it down, a biological or chemical process causes it to separate into the substances which make it up.
e.g. Over time, the protein in the eggshell breaks down into its constituent amino acids...
时间久了，蛋壳中的蛋白质就会分解为其构成成分氨基酸。
e.g. The oil is attacked by naturally occurring microbes which break it down.
原油受到了自然产生的分解油类物质的微生物的侵蚀。
5. 感情失控（痛哭起来）
If someone breaks down, they lose control of themselves and start crying.
e.g. Because he was being so kind and concerned, I broke down and cried...
他如此体贴关心，令我忍不住失声痛哭。
e.g. The young woman broke down in tears.
这名年轻妇人痛哭流涕。
6. 捣毁；拆除
If you break down a door or barrier, you hit it so hard that it falls to the ground.
e.g. An unruly mob broke down police barricades and stormed the courtroom...
一伙暴徒捣毁了警察设置的路障冲进法庭。
e.g. Firemen were called after his father failed to break the door down.
他的父亲没能把门砸开，后来就把消防员叫来了。
7. 消除，破除（障碍或偏见）
To break down barriers or prejudices that separate people or restrict their freedom means to change people''s attitudes so that the barriers or prejudices no longer exist.
e.g. His early experience enabled him to break down barriers between Scottish Catholics and Protestants.
他早年的经历使他能够消除苏格兰天主教徒和新教徒之间的隔阂。
8. see also: breakdown;broken-down
verb
1. collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
Synonym: collapse
2. separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
3. stop operating or functioning
e.g. The engine finally went
The car died on the road
The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
The coffee maker broke
The engine failed on the way to town
her eyesight went after the accident
Synonym: failgo badgive waydiegive outconk outgobreak
4. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of
break down into components or essential features
e.g. analyze a specimen
analyze a sentence
analyze a chemical compound
Synonym: analyzeanalysedissecttake apart
5. make ineffective
e.g. Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination
Synonym: crush
6. cause to fall or collapse
7. lose control of one''s emotions
e.g. When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely
When her baby died, she snapped
8. fall apart
e.g. the building crumbled after the explosion
Negotiations broke down