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

• If judged correctly, this allows the economy to adjust steadily, without booms and busts.
  如果判断正确的话，这会让经济稳定调整，而不会出现大起大落。
• 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。
• There were many marble busts on painted wooden pillars along the walls of the office room.
  办公室的墙上有油漆过的木柱子，上边放着好些大理石的半身像。
• But there are many others, because booms and busts seldom have a single trigger.
  但还有许多其他变数，因为繁荣和萧条鲜有单一触发因素的。
• 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。
• Fickle deposits in banks ancient enablers of calamitous booms and busts in credit deserve even wider attention.
  变幻无常的银行存款自古以来就是灾难性信贷繁荣与萧条的罪魁祸首应受到更广泛的关注。
• The danger in a more explicitly market-based financial system is in heightened procyclicality more euphoric booms and more depressed busts.
  一个更明显基于市场的金融体系的危险，在于顺周期性的加强，这意味着更多非理性繁荣和更多令人沮丧的萧条。
• The currency peg to the US dollar has survived inflation, deflation, and booms and busts in the property market.
  盯住美元的联系汇率制历经通胀、通缩和房地产市场的繁荣与衰败，依然屹立不倒。
• 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。
• 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。