broken

1. Broken is the past participle of break. (break)的過去分詞

2. ADJ A broken line is not continuous but has gaps or spaces in it. 虛的 (線)[ADJ n]

A broken blue line means the course of a waterless valley. 藍(lán)色虛線代表無水流過的山谷走向。

3. ADJ You can use broken to describe a marriage that has ended in divorce, or a home in which the parents of the family are divorced, when you think this is a sad or bad thing. (婚姻) 破裂的[ADJ n] [表不滿]

She spoke for the first time about the traumas of a broken marriage. 她第一次說起婚姻破裂之痛。

4. ADJ If someone talks in broken English, for example, or in broken French, they speak slowly and make a lot of mistakes because they do not know the language very well. 蹩腳的[ADJ n]

Eric could only respond in broken English. 埃里克只能用蹩腳的英語應(yīng)答。