| 单词 | break up |
| 释义 | break up1. phrasal verb When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts. Civil war could come if the country breaks up. [VERB PARTICLE] There was a danger of the ship breaking up completely. [VERB PARTICLE] Break up the chocolate and melt it. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He broke the bread up into chunks and gave Meer a big one. [V n P + into] Tanks are strongly built. It is a complicated and difficult process to break themup. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you break up with your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife, your relationship with that person ends. My girlfriend had broken up with me. [VERB PARTICLE + with] He felt appalled by the whole idea of marriage so we broke up. [VERB PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb If a marriage breaks up or if someone breaks it up, the marriage ends and the partners separate. MPs say they work too hard and that is why so many of their marriages break up. [VERB PARTICLE] Fred has given me no good reason for wanting to break up our marriage. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 4. phrasal verb When a meeting or gathering breaks up or when someone breaks it up, it is brought to an end and the people involved in it leave. A neighbour asked for the music to be turned down and the party broke up. [VERB PARTICLE] Police used tear gas to break up a demonstration. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He charged into the crowd. 'Break it up,' he shouted. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 5. phrasal verb When a school or the pupils in it break up, the school term ends and the pupils start their holidays. [British] It's the last week before they break up, and they're doing all kinds of Christmasthings. [VERB PARTICLE] 6. phrasal verb If you say that someone is breaking up when you are speaking to them on a mobile phone, you mean that you can only hear parts of what they are saying because the signal is interrupted. The line's gone; I think you're breaking up. [VERB PARTICLE] 7. phrasal verb If something breaks someone up, it causes them to lose control and begin to laugh or cry. Kindness breaks me up; it makes me cry. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 8. See also break-up More Synonyms of break up See full dictionary entry for breakbreak-up also breakup Word forms: plural break-ups 1. countable noun [noun NOUN] The break-up of a marriage, relationship, or association is the act of it finishing or coming to an end because the people involved decide that it is not working successfully. Since the break-up of his marriage he had not formed any new relationships. ...the acrimonious break-up of the meeting's first session. [+ of] ...a marital break-up. Synonyms: separation, split, divorce, breakdown More Synonyms of break up 2. countable noun The break-up of an organization or a country is the act of it separating or dividing into several parts. The struggling music group is considering a break-up of its three divisions in anattempt to speed up recovery. [+ of] One in five people believes that a break-up would be favourable. More Synonyms of break up break up in British Englishverb (adverb) 1. to separate or cause to separate 2. to put an end to (a relationship) or (of a relationship) to come to an end 3. to dissolve or cause to dissolve; disrupt or be disrupted the meeting broke up at noon 4. (intransitive) British (of a school) to close for the holidays 5. (intransitive) (of a person making a telephone call) to be inaudible at times, owing to variations in the signal you're breaking up 6. informal to lose or cause to lose control of the emotions the news of his death broke her up 7. slang to be or cause to be overcome with laughter noun break-up 8. a separation or disintegration 9. Canadian a. in the Canadian north, the breaking up of the ice on a body of water that marks the beginning of spring b. this season break-up in British English (ˈbreɪkˌʌp) noun separation or disintegration This caused the break-up of the coalition. the break-up of British Rail for privatization She had no wish to preside over the break-up of the Conservative party. All marriage break-ups are traumatic. Since the break-up of his marriage he had not formed any new relationships. a marital break-up break up in American English1. to separate; disperse : also, esp. as a command, break it up2. to take apart; dismantle and scrap 3. to put a stop to 4. Informal to end a relationship 5. US, Informal to distress or upset greatly 6. US, Informal to laugh or make laugh uncontrollably Examples of 'break up' in a sentence |
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