busts

英 [bʌsts]

美 [bʌsts]

n.  (石或金属的)半身像; (尤指衣服或尺寸)女子的胸部，胸围; (警方的)突击搜捕，突击搜查
v.  打破; 摔碎; 突击搜查(或搜捕); (使)降级，降低军阶
bust的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

The form bust is used as the present tense of the verb, and can also be used as the past tense and past participle. bust的过去式和过去分词可与原形相同。


• VERB 打碎；破坏
  If youbustsomething, you break it or damage it so badly that it cannot be used.
  1. They will have to bust the door to get him out.
     他们将不得不撞破门把他弄出来。
• VERB 逮捕；拘留
  If someoneis busted, the police arrest them.
  1. They were busted for possession of cannabis.
     他们因藏有***被逮捕。
• VERB （警察）搜查
  If policebusta place, they go to it in order to arrest people who are doing something illegal.
  1. ...police success in busting UK-based drug factories.
     警察对英国的毒品加工厂成功实施的突击搜查
  2. Bustis also a noun.
     
  3. Six tons of cocaine were seized last week in Panama's biggest drug bust.
     上周在巴拿马规模最大的毒品搜查行动中查获了6吨***。
• ADJ 破产的；倒闭的
  A company or fund that isbusthas no money left and has been forced to close down.
  1. It is taxpayers who will pay most of the bill for bailing out bust banks.
     是纳税人将支付大部分的账单以解救面临倒闭的银行。
• PHRASE 破产；倒闭
  If a companygoes bust, it loses so much money that it is forced to close down.
  1. ...a Swiss company which went bust last May.
     一家去年5月倒闭的瑞士公司
• N-COUNT 半身像；胸像
  Abustis a statue of the head and shoulders of a person.
  1. ...a bronze bust of the Queen.
     女王的半身铜像
• N-COUNT （女人的）胸部
  You can usebustto refer to a woman's breasts, especially when you are describing their size.
  1. Good posture also helps your bust look bigger.
     优美的姿势也能让你的胸部看起来更丰满。
• tobust a gut→ see:gut

双语例句

• This explains why prices in certain markets are subject to periodic booms and busts, because of a lag between the response in production to a change of price.
  这个理论解释了为什么在一些特定市场中由于生产对价格的反映存在延迟，从而会出现周期性的发展及萧条。
• Macroeconomic theory, our understanding of how economists experience booms, busts, inflation and growth, was found wanting in the global financial crisis.
  我们用来理解经济体经历繁荣、萧条、通胀和增长的宏观经济理论，在全球金融危机中暴露了不足。
• The statutory capital requirements should rise during booms and fall in busts.
  法定资本要求应当在景气时增加，不景气时则下降。
• However, Jensen, who has busts of both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in her office, is known as a moderate.
  不过，人们都知道延森本人是温和派，她的办公室里摆着罗纳德•里根和玛格丽特•撒切尔的雕像。
• By an irony that inflation-hating Germans have trouble seeing, Ireland and Spain suffered property and banking busts at least partly because monetary policy was too German.
  这种货币政策太德国，是导致爱尔兰和西班牙的房地产和银行业不景气的至少部分原因，这里蕴含的讽刺意味，那些憎恶通胀的德国人一直看不出来。
• You are at risk from booms and busts in the property market.
  你一定会在房地产市场的投资市场盛衰周期中冒险。
• Or as ITO says, the endeavour that is "not so much interdisciplinary, but Anti-disciplinary", since it busts traditional definitions of research and entrepreneurship.
  或者正如伊藤穰一所说，这一努力“与其说是跨学科的，不如说是反学科的”，因为它打破了研究与创业的传统定义。
• It is also a warning that recovering from housing and credit busts is hard.
  这也是一个警告信号，即自房屋和信贷危机中复原是一个艰难的过程。
• The English-speaking countries are widely perceived to be down and out after housing binges and financial busts.
  经历过住房热潮和金融崩溃之后，人们普遍认为英语国家将陷于穷困潦倒。
• Booms start off slowly but busts can be sudden and devastating.
  繁荣的开始总是很缓慢，但崩盘的发生可能是骤然而毁灭性的。