burst /bɜːst/ CET4 TEM4 ( bursting, bursts )

• 1. 

  V-T/V-I If something bursts or if you burst it, it suddenly breaks open or splits open and the air or other substance inside it comes out. 使爆裂; 爆裂

  例：

  The driver lost control when a tire burst.

  一只轮胎爆裂时司机失去了控制。

  例：

  It is not a good idea to burst a blister.

  把水疱弄破不是个好主意。

• 2. 

  V-T/V-I If a dam bursts, or if something bursts it, it breaks apart because the force of the river is too great. 使溃决; 溃决

  例：

  A dam burst and flooded their villages.

  一个大坝决堤，淹没了他们的村子。

• 3. 

  V-T If a river bursts its banks, the water rises and goes on to the land. 决 (堤)

  例：

  Monsoons caused the river to burst its banks.

  雨季使这条河决堤。

• 4. 

  V-I When a door or lid bursts open, it opens very suddenly and violently because someone pushes it or there is great pressure behind it. (门、盖子等) 猛然打开

  例：

  The door burst open and an angry young nurse appeared.

  门突然开了，一个生气的年轻护士出现了。

• 5. 

  V-I To burst into or out of a place means to enter or leave it suddenly with a lot of energy or force. 闯

  例：

  Gunmen burst into his home and opened fire.

  持枪歹徒闯入他家，开了枪。

• 6. 

  V-I If you say that something bursts onto the scene, you mean that it suddenly starts or becomes active, usually after developing quietly for some time. 突然活跃起来 [journalism]

  例：

  He burst onto the fashion scene in the early 1980s.

  20世纪80年代初他突然在时尚界活跃起来。

• 7. 

  N-COUNT A burst of something is a sudden short period of it. (突然的) 一阵

  例：

  ...a burst of machine-gun fire.

  …一阵机枪射击。