bust
美 [bʌst] 
英 [bʌst]
- n.（石或金属的）半身像；（尤指衣服或尺寸）女子的胸部
- v.打破；摔碎；突击搜查（或搜捕）；降低军阶
- adj.破碎；毁坏；破产
- 网络胸围；胸像；半身雕像
词形变化
复数：busts 现在分词：busting 过去式：busted 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
| I bust my camera. 我把照相机摔坏了。 |
| The lights are busted. 灯泡被砸碎了。 |
| Come out, or I'll bust the door down! 出来，不然我就砸门了！ |
2. | ~ sb/sth (for sth) 突击搜查（或搜捕）to suddenly enter a place and search it or arrest sb |
| He's been busted for drugs. 他因涉嫌毒品而遭到拘捕。 |
3. | ~ sb （使）降级，降低军阶to make sb lower in military rank as a punishment |
1. | （石或金属的）半身像a stone or metal model of a person's head, shoulders and chest |
2. | （尤指衣服或尺寸）女子的胸部，胸围(used especially when talking about clothes or measurements) a woman's breasts or the measurement around the breasts and back |
| What is your bust measurement, Madam? 您的胸围是多少，太太？ |
3. |
（警方的）突击搜捕，突击搜查an unexpected visit made by the police in order to arrest people for doing sth illegal |
4. | 蹩脚的东西；没价值的事物a thing that is not good |
| As a show it was a bust. 作为一场演出，那可不怎么样。 |
2. | 破产failed because of a lack of money |
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| We lost our money when the travel company went bust . 旅行社破产，我们的钱都赔了进去。 |
习惯用语
bust a gut (doing sth/to do sth)
努力（做某事）to make a great effort to do sth
… or bust
（表示将全力以赴）used to say that you will try very hard to get somewhere or achieve sth
| For him it's the Olympics or bust. 他将竭尽全力参加奥运会。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Stripped to the waist her chest is covered only by a pair of braces, with her bust looking noticeably fuller that usual.
赤裸着上身，仅仅用两条肩带遮住胸脯，她的胸部看起来明显比以前丰满了。
At the time, Mr. Bernanke was trying to be reassuring. But what he said then nonetheless foreshadowed the bust to come.
在那时，伯南克正努力连任，但是他说的话却预示着这场灾难的到来。
The man who said he had abolished "boom and bust" has presided over the longest, deepest recession since the second world war.
昔日称他已经消除了“经济繁荣与萧条的交替循环”的人，而今得负责应对二战以来时间最长、程度最深的经济衰退。
Had banks been forced to hold more capital, the boom might have been more constrained, and there would be less of a bust.
要是银行曾被强制持有更多的资金，行情或许本不会疯涨，那么后续的麻烦也会小些。
"Right now, only the very smartest developers are aware of the potential here. We're about to see that bust wide open, " he said.
他说；“现在，只有非常聪明的开发者才会知道其潜力。我们期待看到更大的市场。”
When Lehman Brothers went bust, lots of people said that if it had been Lehman Sisters things might have turned out differently.
雷曼兄弟（LehmanBrothers）倒闭时，就有许多人说，如果是雷曼姐妹，结果可能会完全不同。
The countries which did not experience the long boom in prices seen in the Anglo-Saxon world are now apparently avoiding the bust.
有些国家现在很明显躲过了这次经济萧条，他们没有经历过在盎格鲁-撒克逊世界里所见到的长期价格上涨。
But at least the mega-deals do not look as if they are in imminent danger of going bust.
但是至少这些大的并购案看起来并不像处于迫在眉睫的失败危险之中。
Had the bank gone bust, it would have led to huge uncertainty, and large potential losses, on a variety of contracts.
如果贝尔破产，将导致摩根大通很多合同的不确定及巨额损失。
A training ground bust-up with a young reserve team players lies at the heart of Albert Riera's banishment from the Liverpool team.
里埃拉被驱逐出利物浦队的真相是：在训练场与预备队年轻队员打架。
He was considered a bust in Atlanta, failing to measure up to expectations after the team signed him to a six-year contract.
韦伯斯特曾经是亚特兰大队的希望，然而在与该队签订了六年合同之后，他并没有达到人们的期望。
At a factory down the road, the response to queries was more brusque. "We've already gone bust, " said a man, and hung up.
在同一条马路上的另一个厂那里，我们得到一个男人更粗暴的回答：“我们已经破产了！”接着电话就给挂断了。
Would you be prouder of me, if I'd contributed two and a half million dollars to buy Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer?
如果我花两百五十万美元去买伦勃朗的‘亚里士多德注视荷马半身像’你会对我感到更加自豪吗？
China could be the next country to go bust, if its headlong rush to build ever-taller skyscrapers is a guide to its future economic health.
如果只顾一味地建造更高的摩天大楼，中国可能是下一个面临破产的国家。摩天大楼是未来经济是否健康的一个指标。
They also argue that there was no chance that the support would have been withdrawn and Northern Rock allowed to go bust.
他们还认为，撤回这种支持以及允许北岩银行破产都可能没有机会了。
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, every economic boom has been followed by an economic bust.
自工业革命以来，每一次经济繁荣之后都将伴随一场经济萧条。
What they had not foreseen was that the explosion in subprime mortgage lending in the US would be the catalyst for such a sudden bust.
他们未曾预料到的是，美国次级抵押贷款的爆炸式增长，会成为这样一场突如其来的危机的催化剂。
No one is sure how much chaos would ensue if a big counter party like Bear went bust.
没有人可以肯定将会有多么混乱，如果像贝尔这样大的对手破产。
My next case, three months later, was to make a bust of a girl whose charred skeleton had been found in Pennsylvania after a fire at a farm.
3个月后，我接到了下一个案子，为一个女孩制作胸像。有人在宾夕法尼亚州的一场农场大火之后发现了她已经被烧焦的骨架。
If you put all that together, it is easy to see why an economy burdened by debt and a housing bust is in extra danger.
从以上分析不难看出，债务缠身和房地产泡沫破裂是如何将经济推向非常危险的境地的。
The child has bust up the alarm clock.
这孩子把闹钟弄坏了。
They bust up after five years of marriage.
他们结婚五年后离异了。
As a show it was a bust.
作为一场演出，那可不怎么样。
If he isn't any good, I'll bust him. That's all.
要是他真的不行，以后再撤下来就是了。
We lost our money when the travel company went bust .
旅行社破产，我们的钱都赔了进去。
She bust loose from the deep water.
她脱离了困境。
I don't want to bust into your customs.
我不想干涉贵国的风俗。
I bust my camera.
我把照相机摔坏了。
I was getting ready to bust when she stopped, looked up into my eyes and said "Do you believe in Jesus? "
我正做好爽的准备，她突然停了下来，抬起头来望着我的眼睛说……“你信耶稣吗？”
The Asian financial crisis hit China just as it was making a painful economic adjustment after the bust of a credit boom in the mid-1990s.
亚洲金融危机降临的时候，中国正处于九十年代中期信贷暴涨后艰难的经济调整期。
The best kind of flirtation with a woman is to tease her, to bust her balls, to let her know that she is not on a pedestal.
对女人的最佳调情方法就是逗弄她，开她的玩笑，以让她知道她不是被宠坏的公主。
Mike: Oh, give me a break Carol; if I got to introduce one of my nut bar professors I certainly wouldn't bust a gut over it. Sorry Dad.
迈克：哦，你等一下，卡罗尔，如果让我介绍教我的那些教授，我屁也不会放一个的。对不起，爸爸。
Behold him in the sand up to his belly, he sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now.
此刻流沙已到腹部，流沙又到了胸部，他只剩下上半身了。
"It's going to be a bust, " said Gordon G. Chang, whose book, "The Coming Collapse of China" (Random House), warned in 2001 of such a crash.
“这波建设浪潮的结果将会是大破产，”戈登·G·常，他的著作《中国将要到来的溃败》（兰登书屋）在2001年警告可能出现崩盘。
High-tech employment also hasn't recovered to pre-bust levels, though it's beginning to creep back in parts of Silicon Valley.
高科技员工的就业情况尚未恢复到泡沫破裂前的水平，但在硅谷，部分行业正在开始悄然回升。
For the country is not just bust, it is deeply uncompetitive, and dealing with that will require years of painful reforms.
并不仅仅因为这个国家业已破产，也因为其无可救药的竞争乏力，以及缺乏对于进行为期数年严厉改革的意愿。
But during the process of it, it's so frustrating not to just, you know (Bust out) bust out, yeah. . . -You know, be more demonstrative.
但是在这个过程中，这是非常令人烦恼的你（不能控制自己）不能控制自己，是。-你知道，更有说明性。
SCREEN beauty Nicole Kidman pulled out of a star-studded bash to celebrate the launch of her new movie after a bust-up with a TV crew.
荧屏美女尼科尔基德曼在庆祝其新片的发布会上群星云集，在与一名电视节目工作人员发生争吵后，转身离开了的现场。
And a bust-up in Copenhagen would make it harder to get legislation passed next year.
而哥本哈根会议的分歧又会使来年通过立法更为困难。
Some behaved irresponsibly during the boom times, to be sure, and many have been caught up in the bust.
当然，其中的一些公司在经济景气时期的行为很不负责任，其中一些肯定已经被曝光了。
Iceland went bust because a country of fishermen was deluded into thinking it had become a giant investment bank.
冰岛之所以破产，是因为一群渔民竟然相信自己的国家已经成为一家巨型投资银行。
Now this seems to me an effort to set Lennon up for a drug bust.
现在在我看来，这相当于试图把列侬当一个毒贩关起来。
If we don't meet up with him within the next hour, he'll pull some of that good cleric moji out and bust us all free.
如果我们一个钟头之内没跟他会合，他就会使出些善良牧师的魔咒把我们都给放出来的。
When risky borrowers find it easy to get credit, they are less likely to go bust, which makes them appear less risky.
只要那些危险的借款人能够轻易地获得信用，他们就没有破产之虞，从而看起来不那么危险。
Years of boom, buoyed by cheap foreign-currency loans and a currency pegged to the euro, have turned to a spectacular bust.
拉脱维亚曾经通过廉价的外币贷款以及与欧元挂钩促成了数年的经济繁荣景象，而如今却急转直下，濒临崩溃边缘。
The day before the appointment, the massage firm e-mailed her to say it had gone bust.
在预约日的前一天，按摩公司发邮件给她说公司破产了。
He began this season yelling "championship or bust" as loud as he could, hoping his teammates would listen and follow suit.
从赛季开始时，他就高喊着“不夺冠就是失败”的言论，希望他的队友们可以听见他说的并且以这样的决心一直干下去。
shorting his own company, you can't bust him for that.
做空自己的公司你不能因为这样告他
