| 单词 | tear |
| 释义 | 1. crying2. damaging or moving tear (tɪəʳ ) crying Word forms: tears 1. countable noun [usually plural] B1 Tears are the drops of salty liquid that come out of your eyes when you are crying. Her eyes filled with tears. I just broke down and wept with tears of joy. I didn't shed a single tear. 2. plural noun B1+ You can use tears in expressions such as in tears, burst into tears, and close to tears to indicate that someone is crying or is almost crying. He was in floods of tears on the phone. She burst into tears. She was conscious of being very near to tears. 3. See also crocodile tears 4. blood, sweat, and tears phrase If you refer to something as involving blood, sweat, and tears, you mean that it is a very hard thing to do and requires a lot of effort. Why do apparently sane people go through all the blood, sweat, tears and heartache involved in getting a PhD? tear (teəʳ ) damaging or moving Word forms: tears , tearing , tore , torn 1. verb B1 If you tear paper, cloth, or another material, or if it tears, you pull it into two pieces or you pull it so that a hole appears in it. She very nearly tore my overcoat. [VERB noun] Mary Ann tore the edge off her napkin. [VERB noun preposition] He took a small notebook from his jacket pocket and tore out a page. [VERB noun with adverb] Too fine a material may tear. [VERB] Nancy quickly tore open the envelope. [VERB noun with adjective] He noticed that fabric was tearing away from the plane's wing. [VERB preposition/adverb] He went ashore leaving me to start repairing the torn sail. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: run, rip, ladder, snag Tear up means the same as tear2. She tore the letter up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Don't you dare tear up her ticket. [VERB PARTICLE noun] ...a torn up photograph. [VERB-ed PARTICLE] 2. countable noun B2 A tear in paper, cloth, or another material is a hole that has been made in it. I peered through a tear in the van's curtains. [+ in] Synonyms: hole, split, rip, run 3. verb B2 If something tears your flesh or skin, it cuts it badly. Canine teeth are for piercing and killing prey, and tearing flesh. [VERB noun] He had stumbled down and torn the skin from his knees. [VERB noun preposition] Synonyms: pull apart, claw, lacerate, sever 4. verb If you tear one of your muscles or ligaments, or if it tears, you injure it by accidentally moving it in the wrong way. He tore a muscle in his right thigh. [VERB noun] If the muscle is stretched again, it could even tear. [VERB] ...torn ligaments. [VERB-ed] 5. verb To tear something from somewhere means to remove it roughly and violently. She tore the windscreen wipers from his car. [VERB noun preposition] He tore down the girl's photograph, and crumpled it into a ball. [VERB noun with adverb] Synonyms: pull, seize, rip, grab 6. verb If a person or animal tears at something, they pull it violently and try to break it into pieces. Female fans fought their way past bodyguards and tore at his clothes. [VERB + at] 7. verb If you tear somewhere, you move there very quickly, often in an uncontrolled or dangerous way. The door flew open and Miranda tore into the room. [VERB preposition/adverb] Without looking to left or to right, he tore off down the road. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: rush, run, charge, race 8. passive verb If you say that a place is torn by particular events, you mean that unpleasant events which cause suffering and division among people are happening there. ...a country that has been torn by civil war and foreign invasion since its independence. [be VERB-ed + by] Synonyms: divide, split, break apart, rupture -torn combining form ...the riot-torn areas of the city. 9. See also torn, wear and tear 10. to tear a strip off phrase [VERB inflects] If you tear a strip off someone or if you tear them off a strip, you speak to them angrily and criticize them severely. [British, informal] He heard Nora tearing a strip off an orderly for not returning the food bins to the kitchen soon enough. The police arrived to tear him off a strip. 11. to tear someone to pieces phrase [VERB inflects] If someone tears you to pieces, pulls your work to pieces, or picks your work to pieces, they criticize you or your work very severely. [informal] He made numerous errors of fact and was torn to pieces during the subsequent question time. Every error is captured, every decision picked to pieces. 12. to tear someone to shreds phrase [VERB inflects] If you tear someone to shreds or rip them to shreds, you criticize them very thoroughly and severely. [emphasis] Phrasal verbs: tear apart 1. phrasal verb If something tears people apart, it causes them to quarrel or to leave each other. The quarrel tore the party apart. [VERB noun PARTICLE] War and revolution have torn families apart. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If something tears you apart, it makes you feel very upset, worried, and unhappy. Don't think it hasn't torn me apart to be away from you. [VERB noun PARTICLE] tear away phrasal verb If you tear someone away from a place or activity, you force them to leave the place or stop doing the activity, even though they want to remain there or carry on. Fame hasn't torn her away from her beloved Liverpool. [V n P + from] We want to encourage students to tear themselves away from textbooks. [V pron-refl P + from] I stared at the man, couldn't tear my eyes away. [VERB noun PARTICLE] tear down phrasal verb If you tear something down, you destroy it or remove it completely. Angry citizens have torn down the statue of the politician. [VERB PARTICLE noun] I imagine they'll be tearing the building down sooner or later. [VERB noun PARTICLE] tear into phrasal verb If you tear into someone, you criticize them very angrily and strongly. [informal] I had a real row with him. I tore into him. [VERB PARTICLE noun] tear off phrasal verb If you tear off your clothes, you take them off in a rough and violent way. Totally exhausted, he tore his clothes off and fell into bed. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Fuentes tore off his hat and flung it to the ground. [VERB PARTICLE noun] tear up 1. phrasal verb If something such as a road, railway, or area of land is torn up, it is completely removed or destroyed. Dozens of miles of railway track have been torn up. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] The company came under furious attack from environmentalists for tearing up the forests. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. tear2 [sense 1] Idioms: tear someone limb from limb if someone threatens to tear you limb from limb, they are extremely angry with you and threaten you with violence Police were lucky they found him before I did because they would have been arresting me. I would have torn him limb from limb. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers tear a strip off someone or tear someone off a strip to speak angrily or seriously to someone because they have done something wrong We were sent to the headmaster's office and he tore strips off both of us. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: tear a tendon The only way it would happen would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that. Times, Sunday Times A scan last night revealed the 25-year-old had torn a tendon in his calf. The Sun But first she needs surgery on her shoulder after she tore some tendons during rehearsals. The Sun Then he tore the tendon again in his left foot. Times, Sunday Times He tore a tendon on the night before the race but decided to run and was among the leaders until he pulled out after 17 miles. Times, Sunday Times Basal tears wash our eyes when we blink, and reflex tears form when something irritates our eyes. Times, Sunday Times Tears form in his eyes and there's a raw strain in his voice. Times, Sunday Times The mechanisms by which retinal holes or tears form are not fully understood yet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Tears well in her eyes as she mentions him. Times, Sunday Times Tears well up in many of their eyes. Times, Sunday Times His voice cracks and tears well up in his eyes. Times, Sunday Times I was surprised, just then, to feel tears well up under my sunglasses. ST Tears well up in her eyes as she speaks of those early days of the disaster. Mail and Guardian He paused to wipe a tear from his eye and looked away for a moment. Houston Chronicle At one point, she appeared to wipe a tear from her eye. The Sun Terribly embarrassed about this, she began to wipe the tears and the perfume off his feet with her hair. Christianity Today She wiped the tears from her eyes with her sleeve. Times, Sunday Times When she cried, someone else had to wipe her tears and hold a tissue to her nose. Christianity Today Translations: Chinese: 眼泪, 破处, 扯 Japanese: 涙 from eye, 破れ目 split, 破る |
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