六级The message to young people who might not otherwise be able to afford to break into the business is, "You can purchase this $3 million piece of land here, because I'm guaranteeing you today you'll have 1, 000 Bison on it."

对年轻人来说，如果不是这样的话，他们可能无法进入这个行业，“你可以在这里购买这片价值300万美元的土地，因为我向你保证，今天你会有1000头野牛。”

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

这个理论的有趣之处在于，如果你只有三分之一或三分之二，你会得到什么？你有什么？如果三分之二不同，又有什么不同？这种理论的有趣之处在于，它产生了许多不同的组合，当你将它们分解并开始仔细观察时，它们会非常有趣。

2016年12月听力原文

六级We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbour's trip to India.

在听说一个邻居去印度旅行后，我们违背了不坐飞机的诺言。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考Researchers in spain and england recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene, which accounts for 40% of plastics.

西班牙和英国的研究人员最近发现，大蜡蛾的蠕虫可以分解聚乙烯，聚乙烯占塑料的40%。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action only sure that it will do so sometime.

人们永远无法确定它是否即将采取行动，只能确定它会在某个时候采取行动。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

考研Quotas get action: they "open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling, " according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.

配额获得了行动：根据雷丁的说法，配额“打开了平等之路，打破了玻璃天花板”，这一结果在法国和其他有法律约束力的规定让女性担任最高商业职位的国家都可以看到。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级In addition, you can take a cognitive break every 90 minutes to charge your batteries.

此外，你可以每90分钟休息一次，给电池充电。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研This will help to grow your internal network, in addition to being a nice break in the work day.

这将有助于扩大您的内部网络，此外，这将是一个很好的休息，在工作日。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

当我们成年后，童年时期的饮食模式很难打破，这可能意味着抑郁母亲的孩子最终会英年早逝。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

在60岁左右，“肌肉真的开始崩溃，”老龄化研究人员凯瑟琳·斯塔尔说，“正因为如此，老年人对蛋白质的需求实际上增加了。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级He cannot afford to have a coffee break.

他喝不起咖啡休息。

2013年6月听力原文

四级The animal made it to the roof of the building, after it took a long break on a 17th floor window edge.

这只动物在17楼的窗户边休息了很长时间后爬上了楼顶。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级If after work you lie around on your bed and get irritated by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states.

如果下班后你躺在床上，对手机上的政治评论感到恼火，或者在考虑如何装修房子的决定时感到压力，那么你的大脑并没有从高度的精神唤醒状态中得到休息。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbor's trip to India.

在听说邻居去印度旅行后，我们违背了不坐飞机的诺言。

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

高考Breaking up firms like Google into five small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again.

把像谷歌这样的公司拆分成五个小公司不会停止自我改造：随着时间的推移，其中一个公司会再次变得伟大。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo ( ' , 禁忌 ).

与人类价值观背道而驰的机器人最令人担忧的是，人类无法进行充分的测试，他们已经制造出一套系统，可以打破某种禁忌（“，禁忌 ).

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo.

与人类价值观背道而驰的机器人最令人担忧的是，人类无法进行充分的测试，他们已经制造出了一种可以打破某种禁忌的系统。

2016年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

高考For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within.

对于前几代人来说，大学是摆脱父母控制的决定性转折点；指导和支持需要同龄人和内部的帮助。

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills.

Bertocchini对此表示同意，并希望她的研究小组的发现有朝一日能帮助利用这种酶在垃圾填埋场分解塑料。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级So why are American women so far ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?

那么，为什么美国女性在突破玻璃天花板方面远远领先于瑞典女性呢？

2014年6月阅读原文

四级Break the tension with smiles and humor to reinforce the idea that this is friendly discourse and that all are working toward a common goal.

用微笑和幽默打破紧张气氛，强化这是友好的对话，所有人都朝着一个共同的目标努力。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Break the tension with smiles and humor to reinforce the idea that this is friendly discourse and that all are working toward a common goal.

用微笑和幽默打破紧张气氛，强化这是友好的对话，所有人都朝着一个共同的目标努力。

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

考研Sometimes I feel in his late works a will to break all signs of continuity.

有时，我觉得在他后期的作品中，有一种打破所有连续性迹象的意愿。

2014年考研翻译原文

高考Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits.

重新学习观察我们周围世界的艺术是相当简单的，尽管这需要练习，需要改掉一些坏习惯。

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Although Kodak anticipated the inevitable rise of digital photography, its corporate（企业的） culture was too rooted in the successes of the past for it to make the clean break necessary to fully embrace the future

尽管柯达预见到数码摄影不可避免的崛起，但其公司(企业的） 文化过于植根于过去的成功，以至于它无法完全拥抱未来

2013年6月阅读原文

高考They rose in the ranks not by being friendly but by smoking cigarettes, breaking rules and playing jokes on others, among whom I soon found myself.

他们不是因为友好，而是因为吸烟、违反规则和开别人的玩笑，我很快发现自己就是这些人中的一员。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface.

与浮冰架不同，浮冰架破裂时对海平面几乎没有影响，冰盖固定在基岩上，会吹向海面。

2010年12月听力原文

高考Russia is another country with population problems that could break its economic promise.

俄罗斯是另一个人口问题可能会破坏其经济承诺的国家。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

四级When the body realizes the muscles are hurt, the response is to increase blood flow to the area and increase body heat, damaged cells are then cleaned up and the body sends cells specially designed to break down the large muscle fiber fragments.

当身体意识到肌肉受伤时，反应是增加流向该区域的血液流量，增加体温，然后清除受损细胞，身体发送专门设计的细胞，以分解大块肌肉纤维碎片。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

高考You start with English as usual, then business studies and after the break, history and art.

你照常从英语开始，然后是商科，休息后是历史和艺术。

2016年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

高考As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

只要存在代码，人们就试图打破它们。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

四级In agrarian ( ' , 农业的 ), pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

在农业方面(",，农业的 ), 前工业化时期的欧洲，你想早起，开始与日出工作，休息一下，吃最大的饭菜，然后你回去工作，太平洋大学历史教授Ken Albala说。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.

如果粮食状况继续恶化，整个国家将以越来越快的速度崩溃。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Presumably, you keep your doors locked at night and while you're away, so the thief will still need to break in.

想必，你会在晚上和外出的时候锁上门，所以小偷仍然需要破门而入。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研When women do break through to the summit of corporate power—as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.

当女性确实像谢丽尔·桑德伯格（Sheryl Sandberg）最近在Facebook上所做的那样冲破企业权力的顶峰时，她们吸引了大量的关注，正是因为她们仍然是这一规则的例外。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级In agrarian, pre-industrial Europe, "you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work," says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

在工业化前工业化的欧洲，“你想早起，开始和日出工作，休息一下，吃最大的饭菜，然后你回去工作，”太平洋大学历史教授Ken Albala说。

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级The large base he leads resembles a snowed-in college campus on holiday break, with the capacity to sleep more than 10 times the 13 people who were staying on through the Antarctic winter.

他领导的这个大型基地就像大学校园假期里的一场大雪，它的睡眠能力是在南极度过冬季的13个人的10倍多。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级They break routines, because autopilot is death.

他们打破常规，因为自动驾驶就是死亡。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级She never knows if the egg will break before the design is completed.

在设计完成之前，她永远不知道鸡蛋是否会破裂。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.

去年获胜的美国数学奥林匹克队的主教练保申洛（Po Shen Loh）说，挑战在于，如果某些类型的人在做某事，其他人很难进入其中。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.

由于粮食短缺，许多国家的社会秩序正在崩溃。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Often, people break laws simply because the laws are there.

通常，人们违反法律仅仅是因为法律存在。

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

考研Tronick believes that just because a child isn't learning from the screen doesn't mean there's no value to it -- particularly if it gives parents time to have a shower, do housework or simply have a break from their child.

Tronick认为，仅仅因为孩子没有从屏幕上学习并不意味着它没有任何价值——特别是如果它给父母时间洗澡、做家务或只是和孩子休息一下的话。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Take a weekend break, a day-trip, get out there and do it: for the scenery, for the way through the woods, for the birds, for the bees.

周末休息，一天的旅行，到那里去做：为了风景，为了穿过树林的路，为了鸟儿，为了蜜蜂。

2010年12月阅读原文

四级In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

尽管采取了这些临时措施，但在许多其他国家，食品价格飙升和饥饿蔓延正开始破坏社会秩序。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考Code breaking never lags (落后) far behind code making.

破译代码从不落后(落后) 远远落后于代码制作。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

四级The one that used to get me was that swans could break your leg with a blow of the wing.

曾经让我着迷的是天鹅可以用翅膀击碎你的腿。

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

高考It is very hard to break a code without the code book.

没有密码本就很难破解密码。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 选项

高考But compared with previous studies, she finds the speed of breaking down in this one exciting.

但与之前的研究相比，她发现这项研究的崩溃速度令人兴奋。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考I was now fascinated by the idea of poetry, words that had the power to make or break a person's world.

我现在被诗歌的概念迷住了，这些词有能力创造或打破一个人的世界。

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考It should be during the lunch break.

应该在午餐休息时间。

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

高考Jennifer Debruyn, a microbiologist at the university of tennessee, who was not involved in the study, says it is not surprising that such worms can break down polyethylene.

田纳西大学的微生物学家Jennifer Debruyn没有参与这项研究，他说，这种蠕虫可以破坏聚乙烯，这不足为奇。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Norton sound was covered with ice, which could sometimes break up without warning.

诺顿湾被冰覆盖，有时会在没有警告的情况下破裂。

2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

高考Our class needs to go to the computer room during the morning break on the 18th.

我们班需要在18日上午休息时去电脑室。

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

高考She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks.

她向女孩们展示了很难弄断绑着的筷子。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考So, if we have this capability but somehow life seems to keep us stuck, how do we break these patterns?

所以，如果我们有这种能力，但生活似乎让我们陷入困境，我们如何打破这些模式？

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Stop people from breaking traffic rules.

阻止人们违反交通规则。

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

高考The meetings will start at 10:00 am, and end at 3:00 pm, with a short lunch break.

会议将于上午10:00开始，下午3:00结束，并有短暂的午休时间。

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

高考Unlike the forced wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.

与强迫等待不同，等待也是自愿的，等待幸运的休息并不一定意味着它会发生。

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考When the container is full, you can suck the refreshment out through the tube, and won't have to break down the still every time you need a drink.

当容器装满时，你可以通过吸管吸出茶点，而不必每次你需要饮料时都把蒸馏器打碎。

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级That means defeating the lock somehow, or breaking a window.

这意味着以某种方式打破锁，或者打破窗户。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级But steamships didn't lose their sails until the 1880s, because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down.

但直到19世纪80年代，轮船才失去了帆，因为早期的船用发动机有一个坏习惯。

2014年6月阅读原文

四级Although Kodak anticipated the inevitable rise of digital photography, its corporate（企业的） culture was too rooted in the successes of the past for it to make the clean break necessary to fully embrace the future.

尽管柯达预见到数码摄影不可避免的崛起，但其公司(企业的） 文化过于植根于过去的成功，以至于它无法完全拥抱未来。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级On the other hand,there have been hundreds of thefts and cases of deliberate damaging of public property, which usually involves breaking windows or lights or writing on walls.

另一方面，有数百起盗窃案和蓄意破坏公共财产的案件，通常涉及打碎窗户、灯或在墙上写字。

2012年6月阅读原文

四级In fact, when you break a role or law, you lose control over your life and give others the power to impose punishment that you have no control over.

事实上，当你违反了一个角色或法律，你就失去了对自己生活的控制，并给了别人施加你无法控制的惩罚的权力。

2011年12月阅读原文

四级so that we don't break any rules

这样我们就不会违反任何规则

2011年12月阅读原文

四级Five ways to find harmony with the natural world Walk: Break the rhythm of permanently being under a roof

找到与自然世界和谐的五种方法步行：打破永久呆在屋檐下的节奏

2010年12月阅读原文

四级If it's a loss [where] you're not getting to work, and family relationships are breaking down as a result, then it's too much

如果这是一种损失，你无法工作，家庭关系因此而破裂，那么这就太多了

2010年6月阅读原文

四级Social divisions will break down if people get to know each other

如果人们互相了解，社会分裂就会瓦解

2012年6月听力原文

四级But she has to make the prison break in her own car.

但是她必须用自己的车越狱。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.

在某些情况下，水是如此的稀缺，以至于农民们打开了污水管，将废物输送到当地河流中。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Other initiatives fail to break down the data, too.

其他计划也未能分解数据。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级As for breaking through the glass ceiling in business,American women are well in the lead

至于在商业领域突破玻璃天花板，美国女性遥遥领先

2014年6月阅读原文

六级Only four out of the 54 people interviewed had completely broken with their sisters and brothers and only one of the four felt comfortable with the break.

在接受采访的54人中，只有4人与自己的兄弟姐妹完全分手，4人中只有1人对这种分手感到满意。

2014年6月听力原文

六级Only four out of the 54 people interviewed had completely broken with their sisters and brothers and only one of the four felt comfortable with the break

在接受采访的54人中，只有4人与自己的兄弟姐妹完全分手，4人中只有1人对这种分手感到满意

2014年6月听力原文

六级We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys.

我们可以把山拆开；我们可以排干河流，淹没山谷。

2013年12月听力原文

六级I'll start with a brief review of the reasons for the change that we really need to make a clean break to restart growth.

首先，我将简要回顾一下我们真正需要进行彻底改革以重新启动增长的原因。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级Extreme athletes expend lots of energy breaking down and repairing and building muscles.

极限运动员消耗大量能量分解、修复和锻炼肌肉。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研Breaking down problems into bite-sized chunks and using code to solve them becomes normal.

把问题分解成小块，然后用代码来解决，这是很正常的。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Let's take a coffee break, shall we?

我们休息一下喝杯咖啡吧，好吗？

2013年6月听力原文

六级He cannot afford to have a coffee break

他喝不起咖啡休息

2013年6月听力原文

四级The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

该公司在过去的五年中开发了厚度仅为四分之一英寸的太阳能电池板，其强度足以承受繁重的公路交通，而不会破坏或使道路变得更滑。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级He used a strangely potent ingredient in a food supplement He created a drink containing alcohol without breaking law He became notorious because of the coca drink he developed.

他在食品补充剂中使用了一种奇怪的强效成分

2017年12月英语六级考试真题（卷一）

六级And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple’s help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on ( 热 衷 于 ) privacy, the may have been able to break into the device by itself.

为了了解一部iPhone的内容，政府表示需要法院命令和苹果的帮助来编写新代码；在早期版本的iPhone中，在苹果在（热 衷 于 ) 隐私

2017年12月英语六级考试真题（卷三）

六级“The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it’s difficult for other people to break into it,” said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year’s winning Math Olympiad team.

“挑战在于，如果某些类型的人在做某件事，其他人很难进入其中，”去年获得冠军的奥数队主教练Po Shen Loh说。

2017年6月六级真题（卷二）

六级” If after work you lie around on your bed and get irritated by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states.

“如果下班后你躺在床上，被手机上的政治评论激怒，或者在思考如何装修房子的决定时感到压力，你的大脑就没有从高度的精神唤醒状态中得到休息。

2018年12月6级真题第三套

六级At around age 60, “muscles really start to break down,” says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher at Duke University School of Medicine, “and because of that, in addition to the fact that as we get older our body's ability to break down protein is reduced, the protein needs of an older adult actually increases.

杜克大学医学院的衰老研究人员Kathryn Starr说，在60岁左右，“肌肉真的开始分解，正因为如此，除了随着年龄的增长，我们身体分解蛋白质的能力降低之外，老年人对蛋白质的需求实际上也在增加。”。

2019年12月六级真题（第2套）

六级The message to young people who might not otherwise be able to afford to break into the business is," ' You can purchase this $ 3 million piece of land here, because I'm guaranteeing you today you'll have 1 ,000 bison on it. '

对于那些可能无力涉足该行业的年轻人来说，要传达的信息是，“‘你可以在这里购买这片价值300万美元的土地，因为我今天向你保证，你会有1000头野牛。’”

2019年12月六级真题（第3套）

六级The dollar lost strength the way many marriages break up- slowly, and then all at once.

美元就像许多婚姻破裂一样失去了力量——慢慢地，然后一下子。

2008年6月英语六级真题

六级Old-boy networks are breaking down.

老男孩网络正在崩溃。

2008年6月英语六级真题

六级Breaking the cycle of doing what you have always done is one of the most difficult tasks for job seekers.

打破你一直在做的事情的循环是求职者最困难的任务之一。

2007年6月英语六级真题

六级The power of self-honoring can help to break all the falsehoods you were programmed to believe – those that made you feel that you were not good enough, or strong enough, or intelligent enough to do what you truly desire.

自尊的力量可以帮助打破你被编程为相信的所有谎言——那些让你觉得自己不够好、不够强大或不够聪明，无法做你真正想要的事情的谎言。

2007年6月英语六级真题

四级When this project is complete, the rubbish will be processed like this: First, it will pass through sharp metal bas which will tear open the plastic bags in which rubbish is usually packed; then it will pass through a powerful fan to separate the lightest elements from the heavy solids; after that grounders and rollers will break up everything that can be broken.

当这个项目完成时，垃圾将被这样处理：首先，它将穿过锋利的金属基底，这些基底将撕开通常包装垃圾的塑料袋；然后它将通过一个强大的风扇，从重固体中分离出最轻的元素；在那之后，滚地球和压路机会打碎所有可以打碎的东西。

1993年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The best they can tell us is that the space station, weighing 77 tons and as high as a 12 story building, will break into hundreds of pieces that will be scattered across a track 100 miles wide and 4,000 miles long.

他们能告诉我们的最好消息是，这个重达77吨、高达12层楼的空间站将分解成数百块碎片，散落在100英里宽、4000英里长的轨道上。

1994年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Too often we believe what accounts for others’ success is some special secret or a lucky break (机遇).

我们常常相信别人成功的原因是一些特殊的秘密或幸运的突破(机遇).

1995年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Should you break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will make the other person exceedingly uncomfortable, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself.

如果你违反了禁止在电梯里盯着陌生人看的规定，你会让对方非常不舒服，你自己也可能会感到有点奇怪。

1996年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to doubt myself.

然而，一年左右后，我仍然没有休息，开始怀疑自己。

1997年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In the past, making structures quake-resistant meant firm yet flexible materials, such as steel and wood, that bend without breaking.

在过去，使结构抗震意味着坚固而灵活的材料，如钢和木材，可以弯曲而不断裂。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In the event of a storm surge, the shell should break apart and let the waves rush under the house, the architect explained.

建筑师解释说，如果发生风暴潮，外壳应该破裂，让海浪冲到房子下面。

2003年12月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级If somebody knows you have a nuclear weapon in your house, they’re going to think twice about breaking in.

如果有人知道你家里有核武器，他们会三思而后行。

2004年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题