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单词 shatter
释义
shattershat‧ter /ˈʃætə $ -ər/ ●●○ verb Word Origin
WORD ORIGINshatter
Origin:
1300-1400 Probably from an unrecorded Old English sceaterian
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
shatter
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyshatter
he, she, itshatters
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyshattered
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave shattered
he, she, ithas shattered
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad shattered
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill shatter
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have shattered
Continuous Form
PresentIam shattering
he, she, itis shattering
you, we, theyare shattering
PastI, he, she, itwas shattering
you, we, theywere shattering
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been shattering
he, she, ithas been shattering
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been shattering
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be shattering
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been shattering
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Don't try to drive nails into the bricks, they may shatter.
  • Our lives were completely shattered by the accident.
  • Protesters shattered a glass door and tossed red dye around the entrance.
  • Storefront windows shattered and roofs blew off during the hurricane.
  • The bullet shattered a bone in her left forearm.
  • The explosion shattered office windows 500 metres away.
  • The force of the crash shattered the windshield.
  • The glass had shattered, but the photograph itself was undamaged.
  • The nine-year-old boy was hit by a car and shattered his skull on the pavement.
  • Trees fell down and windows shattered during the storm.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered, the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz.
  • And Nina, crouched in a chair, weak and pale as though any movement might shatter her thinly held composure.
  • Sadly, that dream may soon be shattered.
  • That morning it was a matter of blinding, shattering, choking importance.
Thesaurus
THESAURUSto become broken
verb [intransitive] to become damaged and separate into pieces: · Plastic breaks quite easily.
verb [intransitive] to break after being hit with a lot of force: · The bowl smashed as it hit the floor.
verb [intransitive] to break into a lot of small pieces: · The glass shattered all over the pavement.
verb [intransitive] if something cracks, a line appears on the surface, which means that it could later break into separate pieces: · The ice was starting to crack.
verb [intransitive] if a tyre, balloon, pipe etc bursts, it gets a hole and air or liquid suddenly comes out of it: · She blew up the balloon until it burst.
verb [intransitive] to break in a straight line: · The damp had caused the wood to split.
verb [intransitive] to break into a powder or a lot of small pieces: · The cork just crumbled in my hand.
Longman Language Activatorto break into a lot of pieces
· One of the mugs rolled off the table and broke into bits on the stone floor.· Investigators are not sure what caused the plane to break into pieces and plunge into the ocean.
if a large object breaks up , it breaks into a lot of pieces especially as a result of natural forces, or serious damage: · The ice breaks up quicker near the shore.· Two of the missiles apparently broke up in flight.· The comet was formed when a planet broke up at some time in the distant past.
British go to pieces American to break into a lot of small pieces, especially because of being weak, old, or badly made: · The book had been read again and again, until it finally fell to pieces.· I picked the bag up, and it went to pieces in my hands.· The trunk was full of old dresses, some of which were falling to pieces.
to break easily into pieces, especially because of being badly made or very old: · I only bought these shoes last week, and they're falling apart already.· His jacket started coming apart at the seams.
if something disintegrates , it breaks into a lot of small pieces so that it is completely destroyed or so that it completely changes its form: · A 50-foot section of the roadway began to disintegrate after only a few cars had passed over it.· The plane disintegrated in midair.· The mummified man's clothes had disintegrated almost completely, but appeared to be mainly of leather and fur.
if something, especially glass, shatters , it breaks suddenly into a lot of very small pieces because it has been dropped or hit: · The glass had shattered, but the photograph itself was undamaged.· Storefront windows shattered and roofs blew off during the hurricane.· Don't try to drive nails into the bricks, they may shatter.
to noisily break into pieces as a result of being dropped or hit: · I heard something smash. What broke?smash to pieces/bits: · The bottle rolled off the table and smashed to pieces on the floor.
if something such as wood splinters , it breaks into thin, sharp pieces: · These types of wood splinter more easily than redwood or cedar.· The coating helps prevent the glass from splintering if it is hit by a rock while you are driving.
to break easily into a powder or into small pieces, especially as a result of being old or dry: · The autumn leaves crumbled in my fingers.· Some of the tiles are crumbling around the edges.
if something such as a tyre or a pipe bursts , the force of the air, water etc inside makes it break into many pieces: · The Concorde disaster was caused by a tyre bursting.· Thousands of gallons of oil flowed into the river when an oil pipeline burst.
especially American if a tyre blows , it breaks open suddenly and all the air comes out of it: · One of the tires blew and they skidded into the center divider.
to break something into a lot of pieces
to break something into a lot of small pieces, especially in a violent way, by dropping, throwing, or hitting it: · Firefighters smashed a bedroom window and rescued a two-year-old girl.· Her camera was smashed by soldiers when she tried to take photographs.smash something to pieces/to bits: · The boat hit the rocks and was smashed to pieces by the waves.
to break something, especially glass, into a lot of very small pieces: · The explosion shattered office windows 500 metres away.· Protesters shattered a glass door and tossed red dye around the entrance.
to break something, especially food, into very small pieces: · Beat the eggs, crumble the cheese, and mix together.· Mrs. Suggs crumbled the bread into hot milk.
to break a bone in your body
· I broke my leg last time I went skiing.· She slipped on the floor, it'd just been washed, and broke her hip.· They thought he'd broken his back, but the X-ray showed it was okay.
to partly break a bone : · She slipped and cracked a rib.· Freeman cracked his skull in the accident.
to break or partly break a bone in your body - used especially by doctors: · My grandmother fell down the stairs and fractured her ankle.· He fractured both his legs in the car accident.
to break a bone in someone's body into a lot of small pieces, especially by shooting or hitting them: · The nine-year-old boy was hit by a car and shattered his skull on the pavement.· The bullet shattered a bone in her left forearm.
especially American, informal to break one of the bones in your body: · She fell and busted her knee.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2nouns
· Their hopes had been shattered by the outbreak of war.
· Public confidence has been shattered.
(=make it impossible for someone to achieve or get something they want)· He spoke yesterday about the injury which shattered his Olympic dream.
(=make someone realise their beliefs are wrong)· I hate to be the one to shatter your illusions, but you’re wrong.
(=make people realise the idea they have about something is wrong)· The book shattered the image of the contented American housewife.
(=show that an idea was completely wrong)· Economic studies have shattered the myth that population growth is bad for a nation’s economy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· A further crisis has destroyed public confidence in the bank.
· When she failed her degree, it shattered her confidence.
(=break into small pieces)· When glass shatters, it leaves jagged edges.
(=make what someone wants seem impossible)· The ending of the talks has dashed any hopes of peace.
(=they feel very nervous or worried)· Everyone's nerves were frayed by the end of the week.
literary (=suddenly end it)· A cry rent the air, shattering the peace.
(=beat it easily)· She smashed the record by a massive 28 seconds.
(=end the silence)· The sound of a car engine broke the silence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· A home together is a dream that shattered when his job disappeared.· However, his hopes were shattered when Mr Little left to join Leicester and Darlington were back in trouble.· But Annie's plans for a restful break were shattered when she discovered the holiday hideaway has a ghost.· I was shattered when I met you last.· She was shattered when she was told she couldn't have children.· But their lives are shattered when a nutty friend goes on a shooting spree, injuring Luna and killing Wren.
NOUN
· The oil crisis alone could not have shattered the confidence which capitalists felt during most of the golden years.
· However a tragic accident shatters Giuseppe's dreams and the Palucci vendetta is spawned.· He shared an all too familiar story about shattered dreams and growing fear.
· The results were not earth shattering, but people close to the epicenter felt the shocks clearly.
· Shoppers and workers in similar centres in Britain have been showered with glass when panels of toughened glass have suddenly shattered.· The glass tube shattering in a Thermos bottle?· When the camera crew arrived three days later, the shelter was covered in graffiti and all its glass had been shattered.· Of Williams's car there was no sign except the broken red glass of a shattered taillight.· The iron bar struck the frame and the glass simultaneously, shattering the glass, sending shards spraying into the kitchen.· Somewhere behind the east wing of the castle glass shattered.· A series of thuds brought her to her feet. Glass shattered.
· His try shattered Wigan's Cup hopes, last season, as Hull completed a 14-4 Boulevard upset.· A HumptyDumpty smile, shattered and full of hope.
· However the motion of the car shatters any illusion that you are travelling through space!· It would shatter the illusion he was trying to create of having a unique grasp of this new warrant business.· Let us not shatter that illusion for a week or so.· Mourning shatters the illusions of self-sufficiency and breaks through the blindness of self-containment.
· A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life.· There are the shattered lives and relationships, across ethnic and even family lines.· My plan was shattered - my whole life had just been shattered.
· A flick of a switch and the flashing blue lights and two-tone horns shatter the relative peace of the night.· Stephan said, swimming up, shattering peace and calm with meaningless talk.· But shortly before this there occurred an event the consequences of which were to shatter the peace of Aquitaine.· For villagers like the Charlesworth family the motorway, less than a mile from their house, has shattered the peace.
· In the darkness, the big jet skidded into the ground, shattering into pieces on the other side of the ridge.
· A pin dropping in the attic would have shattered the silence.· Her loud wails shattered the silence of the willow grove.· Road-block salvo shatters Bucharest's fragile silence.· Its shrill jangle shattered the intense silence.· After a good few minutes, I shattered this silence by asking what we should do.· A dropped pin would shatter the silence in bars during televised lottery draws.
· The picture windows shattered, and the bar cracked apart where the bullets went in.· G., houses trembled and windows shattered.· Some of the panes in the lower windows had been shattered by flood.· His old window was shattered and blackened.· One Waterfoot fisherman had a lucky escape when his car window was shattered.· The car's windows shattered randomly and pedestrians scattered for the nearest cover.· Then the bricks flew, and the windows shattered, and the mob moved in.
1[intransitive, transitive] to break suddenly into very small pieces, or to make something break in this wayshatter into The plate hit the floor, and shattered into tiny bits. The explosion shattered the building.► see thesaurus at break2[transitive] to completely destroy or ruin something such as someone’s beliefs or life:  A tragic accident shattered her dreams of Olympic glory. A few weeks in a tiny damp room soon shattered his illusions about university life. people whose lives have been shattered by war3shatter the silence/peace if a loud noise shatters the silence or peace, it is suddenly heard:  The silence was shattered by a warning shout.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2nounsshatter somebody’s hopes· Their hopes had been shattered by the outbreak of war.shatter somebody’s confidence· Public confidence has been shattered.shatter a dream (=make it impossible for someone to achieve or get something they want)· He spoke yesterday about the injury which shattered his Olympic dream.shatter somebody’s illusions (=make someone realise their beliefs are wrong)· I hate to be the one to shatter your illusions, but you’re wrong.shatter an image (=make people realise the idea they have about something is wrong)· The book shattered the image of the contented American housewife.shatter a myth (=show that an idea was completely wrong)· Economic studies have shattered the myth that population growth is bad for a nation’s economy.
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