英语词汇“to break even”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Phrases

P1. to break bulk (cf. sense 2e): ‘to open the hold and take out goods thence’ ( Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. 1692); to destroy the completeness of a cargo by taking out a portion, to begin to unload.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > be transported by water [verb (intransitive)] > unload > partially

to break bulk1575

1575 in Hist. Glasgow (1881) 117 Breking bowk [of a cargo].

1587 St. Paper Office Domest. Corr. To bring them [ships] into this realme without breaking bulke.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 195 All Merchants ships being laden, haue alwaies..beene permitted to breake bulke below, or at Tilburie-Hope.

1668 A. Marvell Let. 18 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 73 An Impeachment..against S^r W: Penn for breaking bulke in the East India Prizes.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 106. ⁋2 Whether he would break Bulk, and sell his Goods by Retail.

1792 E. Burke On Negro Code in Wks. (1842) II. 424 The faithful execution of his part of the trust at the island where he shall break bulk.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. v. 51 He was breaking casks out of the hold.

1883 Times 24 Mar. 6 The whole [cargo of tea] can be sampled and sold the moment the steamer breaks bulk.

P2. to break new ground: to make progress (esp. in knowledge) by using previously uninvestigated material on a subject, or by exploring a new aspect of or approach to a subject.

ΚΠ

a1631 J. Donne To Ben Jonson in Compl. Poems (1872) II. i. 99 Nor is such follower of those ancients found As thou, who, following, darest break new ground.

1857 Littell's Living Age 2 May 316 The drama he seems to have given up... Why not break new ground in literary biography?

1878 Catholic World Nov. 164 Wherever we go now, if we leave Paris we shall be breaking new ground.

1899 Econ. Jrnl. 9 213 In breaking new ground statistically, it is almost always the facts of once date that must serve.

1928 Nation & Athenæum 7 Jan. 537/2 Montesquieu..had been the first to break the new ground.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 359/1 Our artists have found in greyish crackled porcelain a background for painting that inspires them to break new ground.

1970 Guardian 27 Feb. 8/5 Those were days of high adventure: every programme was a first..breaking new ground.

1993 Locus Oct. 27/2 This novel suffers seriously from sequelitis, covering very little new ground and getting overly emotional about the past.

P3. to break (the) ground (cf. 5a):

a. To dig through the surface of ground, especially when covered with turf; to plough up ground for the first time, or after it has lain long in pasture. See also to break up 6 at Phrasal verbs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (of person) [verb (intransitive)] > plough for first time

to break (the) ground1712

1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 76 The Fee for breaking the soil [for a grave] belongs to them.

1888 N.E.D. at Break Mod. (U.S.) It takes three farm-horses of good weight to break prairie-land.

b. Of an army: To begin digging trenches.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > build rampart [verb (intransitive)] > dig trenches

to break (the) ground1678

to dig in1917

1678 London Gaz. No. 1320/3 We hear the French are breaking ground, as if they intended a formal Siege.

1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 200 The enemy broke ground before Ciudad Rodrigo on the night before last.

c. figurative. To commence operations, take the first steps, do pioneer work.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > make a beginning in some enterprise

beginc1200

to break the ice?1553

to break (the) ground1709

to set (or start) the ball rolling1770

to strike the first blow1849

1709 London Gaz. No. 4555/3 Last Night we broke Ground.

1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 792 They have broken no ground from which they have not been driven.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 3 Could I..thus, as it were, not exhaust my subject, but so much as break ground on it!

1857 T. De Quincey R. Bentley (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay VI. 56 One of these who first broke ground as a pioneer in the great field of Natural Philosophy.

d. Nautical. ‘Break-ground. Beginning to weigh, or to lift the anchor from the bottom.’ Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.

ΚΠ

1751 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria Rediviva 116 If..the Ship..breaks Ground, and arrives at her Port.

e. Boxing. (See quot. 1897.)

ΚΠ

1889 E. B. Michell Boxing in W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 154 The proper style of breaking ground or shifting, or slipping, is by movements to the right.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 139/1 Break ground, to take up a fresh position to the right or left.

P4. to break the ice: see ice n. Phrases 2.

P5. to break square, or squares [of uncertain origin: compare 2e] : to interrupt or violate the regular order; commonly in the proverbial phrase, it breaks no square, i.e. does no harm, makes no mischief, does not matter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > violate regularity [verb (intransitive)]

to break square, or squares1570

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1152/2 The missyng of a few yeares in this matter, breaketh no great square in our story.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 116 There are but fewe that breake not square oftener in eating and drinking too much then to litle.

1633 G. Herbert Discharge in Temple vii Man and the present fit! if he provide [i.e. look into the future], He breaks the square.

1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 173 Would so small a matter have broken any squares?

1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iii. 38 'Tis no matter; this shall break no squares betwixt us.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. v. 35 This fault, in Trim, broke no squares with 'em.

P6. to break wind: to void wind from the stomach or bowels. [But compare brake v.⁵ to void from the stomach.]

ΚΠ

1540 D. Lindsay Satyre 7624 I lay braikand like ane brok.

1540 D. Lindsay Satyre 4367 Sche blubbirt, bokkit, and braikit still.]

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Belke, or bolke, or breake wynde vpwarde.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 171 He would give folke leave to breake winde downward and let it goe even with a crack at the very bourd.

a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 45 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) He lying along, belcheth or breaketh wind.

1791 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto III 43 Had the Thund'rer but broke wind.

P7. to break even:

a. intransitive. In Faro (see quot. 1909). U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [verb (intransitive)] > specific bet in faro

to break even1909

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. (at cited word) To break even, in faro, to bet that each card will win or lose an even number of times on the deal.

b. To emerge from a transaction, enterprise, etc., with balancing gains and losses. Originally U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (intransitive)] > other types of money dealing

to bargain and sell1768

hedge1909

to break even1914

to wash its face1946

disinvest1961

reintermediate1979

pitch1980

divest1984

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn ii. 33 To go bumming around like you do and never have to worry about how the firm's going to break even.

1920 Flight 12 508/2 What must we earn to ‘break even’?

1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting ii. 12 He and I broke even in our three four-rounds bouts.

1958 Listener 2 Oct. 498/1 Today a novel needs to sell 5,000 copies for a publisher to break even.

单词	to break even
释义	> as lemmas to break even Phrases P1. to break bulk (cf. sense 2e): ‘to open the hold and take out goods thence’ ( Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. 1692); to destroy the completeness of a cargo by taking out a portion, to begin to unload. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > be transported by water [verb (intransitive)] > unload > partially to break bulk1575 1575 in Hist. Glasgow (1881) 117 Breking bowk [of a cargo]. 1587 St. Paper Office Domest. Corr. To bring them [ships] into this realme without breaking bulke. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 195 All Merchants ships being laden, haue alwaies..beene permitted to breake bulke below, or at Tilburie-Hope. 1668 A. Marvell Let. 18 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 73 An Impeachment..against S^r W: Penn for breaking bulke in the East India Prizes. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 106. ⁋2 Whether he would break Bulk, and sell his Goods by Retail. 1792 E. Burke On Negro Code in Wks. (1842) II. 424 The faithful execution of his part of the trust at the island where he shall break bulk. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. v. 51 He was breaking casks out of the hold. 1883 Times 24 Mar. 6 The whole [cargo of tea] can be sampled and sold the moment the steamer breaks bulk. P2. to break new ground: to make progress (esp. in knowledge) by using previously uninvestigated material on a subject, or by exploring a new aspect of or approach to a subject. ΚΠ a1631 J. Donne To Ben Jonson in Compl. Poems (1872) II. i. 99 Nor is such follower of those ancients found As thou, who, following, darest break new ground. 1857 Littell's Living Age 2 May 316 The drama he seems to have given up... Why not break new ground in literary biography? 1878 Catholic World Nov. 164 Wherever we go now, if we leave Paris we shall be breaking new ground. 1899 Econ. Jrnl. 9 213 In breaking new ground statistically, it is almost always the facts of once date that must serve. 1928 Nation & Athenæum 7 Jan. 537/2 Montesquieu..had been the first to break the new ground. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 359/1 Our artists have found in greyish crackled porcelain a background for painting that inspires them to break new ground. 1970 Guardian 27 Feb. 8/5 Those were days of high adventure: every programme was a first..breaking new ground. 1993 Locus Oct. 27/2 This novel suffers seriously from sequelitis, covering very little new ground and getting overly emotional about the past. P3. to break (the) ground (cf. 5a): a. To dig through the surface of ground, especially when covered with turf; to plough up ground for the first time, or after it has lain long in pasture. See also to break up 6 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (of person) [verb (intransitive)] > plough for first time to break (the) ground1712 1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 76 The Fee for breaking the soil [for a grave] belongs to them. 1888 N.E.D. at Break Mod. (U.S.) It takes three farm-horses of good weight to break prairie-land. b. Of an army: To begin digging trenches. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > build rampart [verb (intransitive)] > dig trenches to break (the) ground1678 to dig in1917 1678 London Gaz. No. 1320/3 We hear the French are breaking ground, as if they intended a formal Siege. 1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 200 The enemy broke ground before Ciudad Rodrigo on the night before last. c. figurative. To commence operations, take the first steps, do pioneer work. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > make a beginning in some enterprise beginc1200 to break the ice?1553 to break (the) ground1709 to set (or start) the ball rolling1770 to strike the first blow1849 1709 London Gaz. No. 4555/3 Last Night we broke Ground. 1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 792 They have broken no ground from which they have not been driven. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 3 Could I..thus, as it were, not exhaust my subject, but so much as break ground on it! 1857 T. De Quincey R. Bentley (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay VI. 56 One of these who first broke ground as a pioneer in the great field of Natural Philosophy. d. Nautical. ‘Break-ground. Beginning to weigh, or to lift the anchor from the bottom.’ Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. ΚΠ 1751 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria Rediviva 116 If..the Ship..breaks Ground, and arrives at her Port. e. Boxing. (See quot. 1897.) ΚΠ 1889 E. B. Michell Boxing in W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 154 The proper style of breaking ground or shifting, or slipping, is by movements to the right. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 139/1 Break ground, to take up a fresh position to the right or left. P4. to break the ice: see ice n. Phrases 2. P5. to break square, or squares [of uncertain origin: compare 2e] : to interrupt or violate the regular order; commonly in the proverbial phrase, it breaks no square, i.e. does no harm, makes no mischief, does not matter. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > violate regularity [verb (intransitive)] to break square, or squares1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1152/2 The missyng of a few yeares in this matter, breaketh no great square in our story. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 116 There are but fewe that breake not square oftener in eating and drinking too much then to litle. 1633 G. Herbert Discharge in Temple vii Man and the present fit! if he provide [i.e. look into the future], He breaks the square. 1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 173 Would so small a matter have broken any squares? 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iii. 38 'Tis no matter; this shall break no squares betwixt us. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. v. 35 This fault, in Trim, broke no squares with 'em. P6. to break wind: to void wind from the stomach or bowels. [But compare brake v.⁵ to void from the stomach.] ΚΠ 1540 D. Lindsay Satyre 7624 I lay braikand like ane brok. 1540 D. Lindsay Satyre 4367 Sche blubbirt, bokkit, and braikit still.] 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Belke, or bolke, or breake wynde vpwarde. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 171 He would give folke leave to breake winde downward and let it goe even with a crack at the very bourd. a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 45 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) He lying along, belcheth or breaketh wind. 1791 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto III 43 Had the Thund'rer but broke wind. P7. to break even: a. intransitive. In Faro (see quot. 1909). U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [verb (intransitive)] > specific bet in faro to break even1909 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. (at cited word) To break even, in faro, to bet that each card will win or lose an even number of times on the deal. b. To emerge from a transaction, enterprise, etc., with balancing gains and losses. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (intransitive)] > other types of money dealing to bargain and sell1768 hedge1909 to break even1914 to wash its face1946 disinvest1961 reintermediate1979 pitch1980 divest1984 1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn ii. 33 To go bumming around like you do and never have to worry about how the firm's going to break even. 1920 Flight 12 508/2 What must we earn to ‘break even’? 1950 J. Dempsey Championship Fighting ii. 12 He and I broke even in our three four-rounds bouts. 1958 Listener 2 Oct. 498/1 Today a novel needs to sell 5,000 copies for a publisher to break even. extracted from breakv. < as lemmas
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