When a bone is broken in more than two places or gets crushed, the name for it is a comminuted fracture.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

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

Let's say that your boyfriend or girlfriend has just broken up with you,

假设你的男朋友或者女朋友刚刚跟你分手，

I feel like 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Plant expert Doug Welsh says when you prune a rosebush, crape myrtle or shade tree, first remove dead, broken or diseased parts.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

And they've included too much or too little in the system, and it looks to them that the second law is broken and they've created more energy than is being brought in.

他们在系统中,包含了过多或过少的物质，从而在他们看来,第二定律貌似是被打破了,他们创造了比最初引入的更多的能量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Still,broken bones should be treated quickly because they can restrict blood flow or cause nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

If there are three possibilities--dead, alive, or suspended-- to be dead, we could still say you've got to be broken, incapable of P-functioning.

如果有三种可能，生存，死亡或者假死-,要死亡的话，你必须是被破坏的状态，无法拥有人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What about John Worster, the Catholic priest? "I make a New Year's resolution every year and usually by the third or fourth of January it's already been broken,so.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Nutrients get broken down into several classes and these are the constituents of food that your body uses for one purpose or another.

营养素这个问题需要花几节课来讨论,它们是食物的组成要素,供给身体吸收,支持身体机能运转

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Shin makes art from broken umbrellas, old clothing or computer parts.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

We will give many lectures, ten or fifteen minutes of lectures, and that will be broken up by desktop experiments where the students collaborate with each other, doing experiments.

我们会讲很多小讲座，十或十五分钟一个，这些讲座中会间隔地穿插,桌面实验,学生可以一起合作，做实验。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

So now, if I click the green flag, the program seems broken or--I don't know.

因此，如果你现在点击蓝色符号，程序可能会中断。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"They are all hurtling around in space at 36,000 kilometers per hour and so even a 1mm piece of space junk can destroy or damage a satellite because it all comes from either dead satellites, satellites which have broken up, satellites which had fuel left in them and exploded."

VOA: standard.2010.07.24

In our business, you got to be inventing new things because software doesn't wear out, it doesn't break, or at least if it breaks it was broken when you finished it, it doesn't break over time the way physical goods do.

在我们行业，你需要不断发明新事物,因为软件并不会磨损，不会坏，或者至少如果坏了,也是在你运行完之后，它并不像物理上的东西会随着时间磨损。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

And the cortex can be broken up into different parts or lobes.

大脑皮层可以被分为几种不同的脑叶

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's this line, "And with forc'd fingers rude" - this is called a broken line or a half-line, and this broken line has been read, I think, rightly as Milton's indication to his reader that he's not even up to the task of writing a sonnet at this point.

是这句，“我不得已伸出我这粗鲁的手指“,-这叫做断裂句，或者半句，将这句理解为,弥尔顿向读者暗示他此时甚至,还不能写好十四行诗是正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

My program or this computer seems to be broken.

我的程序或这台电脑是不是坏了？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选