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新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

bust

英  [bʌst]
    

[ADJ, NOUN, VERB]

    ADJ. 形容词
  • 1. 破产的

    A company or fund that is bust has no money left and has been forced to close down.

    双语例句

    例：

    It is taxpayers who will pay most of the bill for bailing out bust banks.

    是纳税人支付大部分的费用以帮助破产银行摆脱困境。

    NOUN. 名词

  • busts

    1. [C 可数名词] 突袭行动

    A bust is a police raid or arrest.

    双语例句

    例：

    Six tons of cocaine were seized last week in Panama's biggest drug bust.

    上周在巴拿马最大的毒品突袭行动中查获了6吨可卡因。

    2. [C 可数名词] 半身像

    A bust is a statue of the head and shoulders of a person.

    双语例句

    例：

    a bronze bust of Thomas Jefferson.

    一座托马斯·杰斐逊的半身铜像。

    3. [C 可数名词] （女性的）胸部

    You can use bust to refer to a woman's breasts, especially when you are describing their size.

    双语例句

    例：

    Good posture helps your bust look bigger.

    好的姿势可以使你的胸部看起来更丰满。

    PHRASE. 习语

  • go bust

    1. 倒闭

    If a company goes bust, it loses so much money that it is forced to close down.

    双语例句

    例：

    a Swiss company which went bust last May.

    去年5月倒闭的一家瑞士公司。

    VERB. 动词

  • busts , busting , bust , busted

    1. [T 及物动词] 打碎

    If you bust something, you break it or damage it so badly that it cannot be used.

    双语例句

    例：

    They will have to bust the door to get him out.

    他们将不得不砸碎门把他弄出来。

    2. [T 及物动词] 逮捕

    If someone is busted, the police arrest them.

    双语例句

    例：

    They were busted for possession of cannabis.

    他们因藏有大麻而被逮捕。

    3. [T 及物动词] 突袭

    If police bust a place, they go to it in order to arrest people who are doing something illegal.

    双语例句

    例：

    Police busted an underground network of illegal sports gambling.

    警察突袭了一个非法体育赌博的地下网络。

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