They reported back that no laws had actually been broken.

他们汇报说并没有真正发生违法的事。

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"It looks as if a big branch had been broken off," said Colin.

“看起来，好像有一根大的树枝折断了。”科林说。

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It might be tempting, therefore, to think that the old barriers have been broken down and equal opportunity achieved.

因此，人们可能会很容易地认为旧的障碍已经打破，平等的机会已经实现。

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Both records have since been broken, and Larry Olmsted says he has no plans to try to recapture them.

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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。

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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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I've been broken-hearted and broken some hearts, I've tried running hard from my pain.

NPR: Judy Collins, From Both Sides Now

The key support going back to late 2012, line c, has now been broken.

FORBES: Is This the Pause That Refreshes?

But now, at long last, the spell cast by arms control has been broken.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Politics and the Test Ban Treaty, By George F. Will, Newsweek, 20 October 1999