As a verbnoun.动词, break can have many meaningsnoun.意义, but today we're only going to look at three. Number one, it means to separateverb.使分离 into pieces. Oh, I sat on my glasses, but thankfullyadv. they didn't breakverb.打破. Two, break means that something doesn't operateverb.操作 or doesn't functionverb.运行 properlyadv.适当地. Why is my laptopnoun.膝上型轻便电脑 not working? Don't tell me it's brokenverb.打破. And meaning number three, it means to surpassverb.超越 or do better than something elseadv.其它. Have you seen that new horrornoun.惊骇 film? It brokeverb.打破 all the box office recordsnoun.记录.
As an adjectivenoun.形容词, "breakingverb.打破" is very often used together with the word "news" to mean that the news is very, very recentadj.新近的. I get breakingverb.打破 news notifications on my phone. And finallyadv.最后, as a nounnoun.名词, "break" means to stop working for a short time. It's time for a break. Hi, I'm Tom, and today I'm going to show you how to use tagnoun.标签 questions.
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