break out

英 [breɪk aʊt]

美 [breɪk aʊt]

（战争、战斗或疾病）爆发; 越狱; 逃跑; 摆脱（单调刻板的状况）; 布满（汗水）; 出（疹子）

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柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB （战争、战斗或疾病）爆发
  If something such as war, fighting, or diseasebreaks out, it begins suddenly.
  1. He was 29 when war broke out...
     战争爆发时他才29岁。
  2. I was in a nightclub in Brixton and a fight broke out.
     当时我在布里克斯顿的一家夜总会里，那里发生了一场斗殴。
• See also:The two men broke out of their cells and cut through a perimeter fence.breakout
• PHRASAL VERB 摆脱（单调刻板的状况）
  If youbreak out ofa dull situation or routine, you manage to change it or escape from it.
  1. It's taken a long time to break out of my own conventional training...
     我花了很长时间才摆脱掉自身所受的传统训练的羁绊。
  2. If her marriage becomes too restrictive, she will break out and seek new horizons.
     如果她的婚姻对她约束太多，她会挣脱出来寻找新的天地。
• PHRASAL VERB 布满（汗水）；出（疹子）
  If youbreak out ina rash or a sweat, a rash or sweat appears on your skin.
  1. A person who is allergic to cashews may break out in a rash when he consumes these nuts...
     对腰果过敏的人吃了这些坚果后身上可能会出疹子。
  2. A line of sweat broke out on her forehead and she thought she might faint.
     她的额头上冒出一串汗珠，她以为自己可能会晕过去。

英英释义

verb

• become raw or open
  1. He broke out in hives
  2. My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries
  3. Such boils tend to recrudesce
  Synonym:eruptrecrudesce
• start abruptly
  1. After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc
  Synonym:erupt
• begin suddenly and sometimes violently
  1. He broke out shouting
• take from stowage in preparation for use
• move away or escape suddenly
  1. The horses broke from the stable
  2. Three inmates broke jail
  3. Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
  Synonym:breakbreak away

双语例句

• Armed conflict may break out at any moment.
  武装冲突有一触即发之势。
• The forecast that war would break out proved true.
  战争会爆发的预测被证实了。
• Even though things have gone wrong, you needn't break out into such a fury.
  即使事情出了毛病，你也犯不着发那么大的火啊。
• The guerrilla fighter managed to break out of the room where he was imprisoned.
  那位游击队员终于从囚禁他的屋子里逃了出来。
• A line of sweat broke out on her forehead and she thought she might faint.
  她的额头上冒出一串汗珠，她以为自己可能会晕过去。
• Several leading western intellectuals asked me whether war would break out between China and Japan.
  几位著名西方学者问我中国和日本之间是否会爆发战争。
• If her marriage becomes too restrictive, she will break out and seek new horizons.
  如果她的婚姻对她约束太多，她会挣脱出来寻找新的天地。
• When the war break out, the two countries break off their diplomatic relation.
  战争爆发后，两国间断绝了外交关系。
• Dark clouds were gathering in the skies over Europe. War was soon to break out.
  欧洲上空乌云密布，战争即将爆发。
• It's taken a long time to break out of my own conventional training
  我花了很长时间才摆脱掉自身所受的传统训练的羁绊。