Workers have been busy picking up broken branches, some as thick as fifteen centimeters.

VOA: special.2010.02.23

Well, presumably because whatever cognitive structures it takes in your brain to underwrite the ability to P-function, those cognitive structures have been broken, so they no longer work.

大概是因为,无论你大脑中的什么认知结构,使得人格功能性成为可能，这种认知结构都被破坏了，它们不再继续工作。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

Since that time many records for the trip have been made and broken.

VOA: special.2009.03.18