broken
英 ['brəʊk(ə)n]
美 ['brokən]
- adj.
- v. 壊れる；砕ける；損傷する（breakの過去分詞）
英語の語源
- broken (adj.)
- late 14c., past participle adjective from break (v.). Broken record in reference to someone continually repeating the same thing is from 1944, in reference to scratches on records that cause the needle to jump back and repeat.
When Britain's Minister of State, Selwyn Lloyd[,] became bored with a speech by Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in UN debate, he borrowed a Dizzy Gillespie bebop expression and commented: "Dig that broken record." While most translators pondered the meaning, a man who takes English and puts it into Chinese gave this translation: "Recover the phonograph record which you have discarded." ["Jet," Oct. 15, 1953]
例文
- 1. The world breaks everyone，and afterward，many are stronger at the broken places.
- 生活はいつも私たちを傷だらけにしてくれますが、その後、傷を負った場所はもっと強くなります。
毎日一言
- 2.His jaw was broken after he was hit on the head.
- 彼は頭を強打した後、下顎を骨折した。
- 3.Everything breakable had been broken and scattered chaotically about the room.
- 部屋の中で砕けるものはすべて砕けて、めちゃくちゃになった。
- 4.They 've torn down wooden fences and broken branches off trees.
- 彼らは木の柵を取り外し、枝を切り落とした。
- 5.The landscape is broken only by a string of villages.
- この風景には村が一列に並んでいるだけです。
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