It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

它意味着原子可以被随意破坏。

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And the winds in fury seize them in unbreakable embrace, hurtling down the emerald masses to be shattered on the cliffs.

看吧，狂风紧紧抱起一层层巨浪，恶恨恨地将它们甩到悬崖上，把这些大块的翡翠摔成尘雾和碎末。

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Have you ever been right in the middle of something –a complicated email, a tricky paragraph of a report, a hunt for some vital figures –only for your concentration to be shattered?

当你正忙于某事——一封不好写的邮件，报告中棘手的那一段，搜寻着某个很重要的人物——这样的时候，要是注意力能不被分散就再好不过了（而事实常与愿违）。

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And I think about all of the opportunities that are still beyond reach for too many young women, and too many of our sisters and brothers,and mothers and aunts -- all of the glass ceilings that have yet to be shattered."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

The Telegraph says their happiness was to be shattered soon after the shot.

BBC: Newspaper review: Jobless figures make grim reading

That cozy world is about to be shattered: Next year new laws will prohibit the cloning of medicines patented after 1995.

FORBES: By the Numbers

Among the people of the Great War period, one senses that there really were illusions to be lost and faiths to be shattered.

WSJ: Goodbye to All That