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

Let's say your colleague at work has just been broken up with, by her boyfriend.

假设你有个公司的同事刚刚和她的男友分手。

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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

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