| 单词 | disrupt |
| 释义 | disrupt (once / 839 pages) v To disrupt is to interrupt or throw something into disorder. If you don't turn your phone off before a play, it might ring and disrupt the actors and the audience. Disrupt goes back to the Latin root disrumpere, "to break apart." When you disrupt, you break someone's concentration, break up a routine, or break apart a system or order, as when bad weather disrupts the travel plans of people in airports. Even if your headphones keep the music in your ears only, singing out loud can disrupt those around you. A larger interruption would be if a war were to erupt. That would disrupt the peace of an entire region and its people. WORD FAMILYdisrupt: disrupted, disrupting, disruption, disruptive, disrupts+/disruption: disruptions/disruptive: disruptively USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s better to acquire disruptive technology than to be disrupted by that technology.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) On Thursday, Mr. Obama announced a series of sanctions against Russia for its attempts to disrupt the November election. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Police raids to disrupt suspected holiday terror plots led to several shootouts in which five militants were killed and 20 arrested. Wall Street Journal(Jan 01, 2017) 1v make a break in Syn|Hypo|Hyper break up, cut off, interrupt cut, cut off cease, stop punctuateinterrupt periodically breakinterrupt the flow of current in put aside, put awayturn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily break, intermit, pausecease an action temporarily barge in, break in, butt in, chime in, chisel in, cut in, put inbreak into a conversation burst in on, burst uponspring suddenly hecklechallenge aggressively come in, inject, interject, interpose, put in, throw into insert between other elements block, jaminterfere with or prevent the reception of signals stop, stop overinterrupt a trip take off, take time offtake time off from work; stop working temporarily interruptinterfere in someone else's activity breathe, catch one's breath, rest, take a breathertake a short break from one's activities in order to relax take fivetake a break for five minutes take tentake a ten minute break barrage jamjam an entire frequency spectrum point jamjam a narrow band of frequencies spot jamjam a single frequency blanket jamjam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications callmake a stop in a harbour lay over, stop overinterrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight break, break off, discontinue, stop prevent completion 2v throw into disorder This event disrupted the orderly process 3v interfere in someone else's activity Syn|Hypo|Hyper interrupt cut in interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner cut shortcause to end earlier than intended barge in, break in, butt in, chime in, chisel in, cut in, put in break into a conversation |
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