| 单词 | breakthrough |
| 释义 | breakthrough (once / 2222 pages) 1n 2n An amazing discovery or a huge amount of progress can be called a breakthrough. The discovery of penicillin in 1928 was a breakthrough for modern medicine. A personal breakthrough might be overcoming your fear of spiders once and for all. A bigger breakthrough, one that affects many people, is the invention of indoor plumbing. There's a sense of suddenness and drama associated with most breakthroughs. The word started out with a military meaning of literally "breaking through a barrier" in 1918. By the 1930s, it came to have the second meaning of "abrupt solution." WORD FAMILYbreakthrough: breakthroughs USAGE EXAMPLESThe industrial plant appears especially significant as it offers a breakthrough by capturing CO2 without subsidy. BBC(Jan 03, 2017) Other Nixon scholars called Mr. Farrell’s discovery a breakthrough. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Her breakthrough video, Station, was shot, without permission, at a local railway station, with Nadia dancing nonchalantly on the tracks as a train pulled in. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n making an important discovery Hyper discovery, find, uncovering the act of discovering something 2n a productive insight 2Syn|Hyper discovery, find brainstorm, brainwave, insight the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation n a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense Hyper incursion, penetration an attack that penetrates into enemy territory |
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