(使)分离; (使)脱离; 停止; 断交
1. 中止:话说,今天是去报名参加第二次(the second time)汽车培训的,上次的培训因为学校的开学而中止(break off),这点我很遗憾,但是一个学期以来没事就有无证驾驶经历的我,在应付倒桩这种小case的时候,甚是轻松.
2. 断绝,结束:break into 闯入 | break off 断绝,结束 | break out )逃出
3. (使)折断;中断;断绝:break into 闯进;突然...起来 | break off (使)折断;中断;断绝 | break one''s word 失信,食言
4. 中断,中止:break into 强行闯进 | break off 中断,中止 | break out (战争等)爆发;使逃脱,使逃走
1. 折断;(使)断开
If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
e.g. The two wings of the aircraft broke off on impact...
飞机的两个机翼遭受撞击折断了。
e.g. Grace broke off a large piece of the clay...
格雷斯掰下来一大块土。
2. 突然中止;突然停顿
If you break off when you are doing or saying something, you suddenly stop doing it or saying it.
e.g. Llewelyn broke off in mid-sentence...
卢埃林一句话说了一半突然停下来。
e.g. The commander of the German task force radioed that he was breaking off the action.
德国特遣部队指挥官用无线电发报称他将中止这次行动。
3. 终止,结束(关系)
If someone breaks off a relationship, they end it.
e.g. The two West African states had broken off relations two years ago...
这两个西非国家两年前已经中断了外交关系。
e.g. He doesn''t seem to have the courage to break it off with her.
他似乎没有勇气和她断绝关系。
verb
1. prevent completion
e.g. stop the project
break off the negotiations
Synonym: breakdiscontinuestop
2. interrupt before its natural or planned end
e.g. We had to cut short our vacation
Synonym: cut shortbreak short
3. break a small piece off from
e.g. chip the glass
chip a tooth
4. break off (a piece from a whole)
e.g. Her tooth chipped
Synonym: chipchip offcome offbreak away
5. break a piece from a whole
e.g. break a branch from a tree