The engine had a broken crankshaft.

发动机的曲轴断了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The company has consistently denied it had knowingly broken arms embargoes.

该公司始终否认故意违反了武器禁运规定。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Youths had broken into the bar and smashed the place up.

一群年轻人闯进酒吧，把里面砸了个乱七八糟。

《牛津词典》

Brian Jungen was influenced to make the work after seeing old broken chairs that had been thrown away in the street.

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He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing he had forgotten had happened to him.

他有种感觉,觉得他看见的一切都是之前发生过的,他已经忘记的,某件大而无用的事掉落的碎片。

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She gave up presently as if a cloud had approached the sun or the smog thickened and so broken the religious instant, whatever it might have been.

现在她放弃了，就像乌云蔽日,烟雾笼罩,这个宗教瞬间也破碎了，不管它之前是这么样子。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In January 1975, Benn insisted his letter had not broken the Cabinet decision as he had merely explained the situation, rather than arguing a case, and had not broken the manifesto pledges on renegotiation.

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Whether or not Milken had broken the rules of securities trading was far less important than how he had broken the patterns of capital formation.

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An independent expert, Sir David Bell, had ruled that the First Minister had not broken the ministerial code with regard to the issue of legal advice on Scotland in Europe.

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