| 单词 | breach |
| 释义 | breach I. 1. a. (1) < by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands — John Locke > (2) < a breach of duty > < a breach of church observances > b. archaic c. d. e. < prison breach > 2. a. < causing a breach of the skin or bloodshed — G.G.Coulton > < turning over the picture of the ark with too much haste, I unhappily made a breach in its ingenious fabric — Charles Lamb > b. < once more unto the breach, dear friends, … or close the wall up with our English dead — Shakespeare > < the fatal breach in the scholastic wholeness — H.O.Taylor > c. < although a thousand fall, there are always some to go into the breach — R.L.Stevenson > < stepping into the breach when his leader died > d. 3. a. < a trivial misunderstanding causing a breach between friends > < a gesture which healed a breach between the two branches of the family — Current Biography > b. < imperil that success by any breach in the continuity of worship — Compton Mackenzie > < the breaches of agrarian routine — F.M.Stenton > c. < the traditional breach between the artist and the Puritan — S.P.Sherman > 4. a. b. obsolete c. obsolete 5. Synonyms: < a breach of faith > < a breach of discipline > < a breach of the peace > infraction is more often used than breach for the breaking of a law or for an action contravening an obligation < an infraction of a traffic regulation > < an infraction of school rules > < an infraction of a citizen's guaranteed rights > violation adds the notion of overt disregard of law or the rights of others and often suggests the exercise of force < a violation of traffic rules > < a violation of fundamental principles of good government > < renewed hostilities constitute an unequivocal violation of a peace treaty > transgression applies to any act that goes beyond the limits of a law, rule, or order, usually a moral law or commandment < mistakes of this sort are resisted as any aesthetic transgression might be resisted — as being somehow incongruous — Edward Sapir > < what my father made clear to us as the very crux of our transgressions was that we had discredited our bringing up — Mary Austin > < a penalty pronounced upon Eve for her transgression in the garden of Eden — J.C.Krantz > trespass also implies an overstepping of prescribed ground but suggests encroachment upon another's rights, comfort, or property < visitors had best avoid trespass on the lowlands lying west of the Roosevelt mansion — Morris Kaplan > < trespass across tribal frontiers is dangerous unless previous relations are friendly and the arrival is frankly announced — C.D.Forde > < the nature and degree of any trespass upon academic integrity — W.A.Dorrance > infringement is sometimes interchangeable with infraction < an infringement of the law > Often it implies trespass rather than violation and is the usual term in reference to encroachment upon a legally protected right or privilege < an infringement of a patent > < an infringement upon a citizen's civil rights > contravention implies a going contrary to the law or an act in defiance of what is regarded as right, lawful, or obligatory < acts in direct contravention of the provisions of a treaty > < in flagrant contravention of commonly accepted academic principles and practices — Key Reporter > < so many judgments of common sense in contravention to the prevailing theories of our age — Reinhold Niebuhr > Synonyms: < the widening breach between himself and his mother — Thomas Hardy > < flaws in the great structure, which were to widen into breaches — John Buchan > break signifies a breach but carries the idea of strain as a cause < a break between the formerly friendly countries over the disposition of foreign aid > split may imply a complete and usually irreparable breach < he became involved in the split of the Socialist party into the “broad” and “narrow” factions — Current Biography > < too wide a split in the party's ranks to agree on an acceptable candidate > schism implies a clear-cut division of one group, often religious, into two groups, usually opposed, and a consequent discord and dissension between them < their families were on opposite sides of a schism that had occurred within the Society of Friends — Current Biography > < to confirm its divisions, and to render apparently irreparable the schism in our culture — Hilaire Belloc > < when the schism between craft and industrial unionism resulted in the formation of the CIO — American Guide Series: Tennessee > rent implies the literal sense of an opening, as in a fabric, made by tearing, even in its extended meaning suggesting the violence of the action and the jagged result < the violent squabble over the chairmanship caused a very visible rent in the generally amicable relations of the club members > < a rent in the social fabric — Gilbert Millstein > rupture is like breach but carries more clearly the sense of a break in relations between people or groups, sometimes suggesting an actual break not clearly apparent < the rupture of diplomatic relations — New York Times > < a disagreement between father and son led to a nine-year rupture of their relations — Current Biography > < there was no violent rupture of relations; the physicians and surgeons must simply have drifted apart again — Harvey Graham > rift, carrying the idea of a breach by some natural process as the cracking of the earth, often suggests a small breach likely to get larger < this little rift it was that had widened to a now considerable breach — H.G.Wells > < relations between the two groups were harmonious until politics caused a rift — American Guide Series: Texas > II. transitive verb 1. a. < siege artillery would have been needed to breach the walls of the city — C.S.Forester > < breaching a dam > b. < breach the wall of racial segregation > < breaching his distant reserve > c. < where the chalk of the South Downs is breached by the inlet — L.D.Stamp > d. 2. < the Supreme Court … held that our contract had not been impaired but breached — Hodding Carter > < breaching disastrously the whole structure of ideas by which … they live and govern — Walter Millis > intransitive verb < they saw a whale spouting and breaching — Charles Kingsley > |
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