And,he was proud of being the first African-American to break the color barrier in a major opera house.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

So in some sense, the first law would suggest you can sort of break even.

初看起来，热力学第一定律,可以保证这个过程是可行的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The first and the sharpest break with this common human experience came in ancient Greece.

最早与人类社会这个普遍传统,相悖且最为鲜明的例子就是古希腊

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

A month earlier,twenty-six year old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

a strained relation between speech and meter.] I like to drag and break the intonation across the meter as waves first comb and then break stumbling on the shingle .

在说话和节奏之间的这种紧密联系],我喜欢，又是同样的词，拖长和打破,节拍中的语调,就像波浪先平静然后在屋顶上跌跌撞撞地破裂,我想我现在在写诗，它看起来是。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He was the first witness in a probe examining the government's decision to send naval commandos to intercept six ships trying to break Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

or at least one mechanism, I shouldn't say -- the only one-- one mechanism for doing that is going to be to add functions is that it's going to provide both of these things, so the first thing it's going to do is, it's going to let us break up into modules.

我们处理这些的机制--至少一种机制,我不会说只有一种,一种机制是在我们的语言中增加函数,函数的关键是它要提供分解和抽象,所以第一件要做的事，就是将代码分解为模块。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选