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destroy，wreck，do great damage to，do harm to，breach；

[例句] 风力涡轮机个头大、噪音响，还会破坏周边风景。 Wind turbines are large and noisy and they disfigure the landscape.

[例句] 所有的门都用砖堵了起来，防止破坏分子闯入。 All the doors have been bricked up to deter vandals.

break，fracture，burst，split，breach ；

[例句] 他一定已经知道我父母的婚姻即将破裂。 He must have been aware that my parents' marriage was breaking up.

[例句] 这场危机可能会使这一关系有破裂的危险。 The crisis could well place the relationship at risk.

go bankrupt，go broke，go bankruptcy，fall through，bankruptcy ；

[例句] 我破产了，莉薇，而且我欠了几百万美元的债。 I'm broke, Livy, and I owe a couple of million dollars.

[例句] 我们是否会破产还很难说。 It was touch and go whether we'd go bankrupt.

tattered，broken，smash [break] sth. to pieces，crush，break up ；

blow up，blast，burst，demolish (by explosives)，dynamite；

lockjaw，tetanus ；

[例句] 他们已经在努力消灭疟疾、破伤风等疾病。 They are already battling to eradicate illnesses such as malaria and tetanus.

[例句] 我接种了破伤风疫苗。 I was vaccinated against tetanus.

destructiveness，destructive effect ；

[例句] 我们必须避免出现20世纪80年代那样具有破坏性的繁荣萧条交替循环的局面。 We must avoid the damaging boom-bust cycles which characterised the 1980s.

[例句] 妄想有时也具有潜在的破坏性。 Delusions are sometimes insidiously destructive.

break through，make a breakthrough，surmount，break，breach；

[例句] 这家公司看来很有把握在中国取得重大突破。 The company looks poised to make a significant breakthrough in China.

[例句] 在一通大吹大擂中，他们宣布自己取得了突破。 They announced, amid much ballyhoo, that they had made a breakthrough.

damaged，worn，torn，damage，dilapidation ；

[例句] 20世纪60年代建造的高低不一的公寓楼群正在逐渐破损坍塌。 The high and low-rise apartment blocks built in the 1960s are crumbling.

[例句] 那笔钱甚至都不够赔偿破损费。 Those figures might not even cover the cost of breakages.

dawn，daybreak，daylight ；

[例句] 天破晓时阴沉沉的,下了一两场阵雨. The day started out grey with a shower or two.

[例句] 我们出发时天刚破晓. The day was dawning when we set out.

do away with，get rid of，abolish，eradicate，explode ；

[例句] 安·布拉德利破除迷信，给出了医学事实。 Ann Bradley dispels the old wives' tales and gives the medical facts.

[例句] 历史学家迈克尔·贝施洛斯破除了几个不实传言。 Historian Michael Beschloss debunks a few myths.

break，smash ；

[例句] 所有新时尚都是从打破现有常规开始的。 All new fashion starts out as a reaction against existing convention.

[例句] 一声尖叫打破了这可怕的沉寂。 The unearthly silence was broken by a shrill screaming.

be shattered，fall through，evaporate，be disillusioned，be dashed to the ground；

[例句] 遭遇1比3的失利后，他们的冠军梦就此破灭。 They had their championship hopes dashed by a 3-1 defeat.

[例句] 甚至连欧洲之梦都开始破灭了。 Even the European dream is beginning to turn sour.

icebreaker，[电影]Brise-glace；

[例句] 原子破冰船穿过冰山之间向前航行. The atomic icebreaker reeved the icebergs.

[例句] 使用此作为破冰船! Use this as an icebreaker!

old and shabby，worn-out，dilapidated ；

[例句] 他逃走时只穿着莎笼和破旧的衬衫。 He fled wearing only a sarong and a tattered shirt.

[例句] 他母亲老了，衣着破旧，显然尝尽了苦难。 His mother was old, badly dressed and obviously downtrodden.

tattered，ragged，[口]junk，scrap，frazzle ；

[例句] 她已经设法将内利身上沾满血污的破烂衣衫脱掉了。 She'd managed to strip the bloodied rags away from Nellie's body.

[例句] 神仙教母的魔法使灰姑娘的破烂衣衫变成了一件漂亮的长外衣. The fairy godmother's magic charm turned Cinderella's rags into a beautiful gown.

rag，clout，tatters ；

[例句] 他正在用一块满是油污的破布擦手。 He was wiping his hands on an oily rag.

[例句] 上好的纸多半是用破布制造的. The highest quality paper is made mostly from rags.

break through [down]，breach，burst (open) ；

[例句] 女粉丝冲破保安的阻拦，撕扯他的衣裳。 Female fans fought their way past bodyguards and tore at his clothes.

[例句] 阳光冲破了云层。 Sunlight had broken through the clouds.

break，perforation，tresis，wear out，wear through ；

[例句] 现在的衣服好像很快就穿破了. Clothing seems to wear out in no time nowadays.

[例句] 他的衬衫穿破了. His shirt was frayed.

ruined，dilapidated，tumbledown ；

[例句] 房子里空无一人，破败不堪。 The house was unoccupied and in a bad state of disrepair.

[例句] 这幢房子死气沉沉、风格过时并且破败不堪。 The house was dull, old-fashioned and in bad condition.