Mal's car had broken down en route and the AA patrolman had taken an hour to arrive.
马尔的车在路上抛了锚，AA巡视员1个小时后才到达。
《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
Don't excuse his late arrival by saying that his car had broken down.
不要为他来晚了找借口,说是由于车出了故障.
《简明英汉词典》
We had to move water by a chain pump because the electric pump had broken down.
抽水机坏了,只好用人工车水.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
For what, anyway , did I move to this broken-down little room?
唉, 我搬到这破房子里来, 到底为的是什么 呢 ?
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这些程序一般被分割成一些较小的单功能模块，能独立地对它们编码。打算独立作为舞台场景的一部分的一块风景。
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Almost all hydrogen bonding of water is broken down at the supercritical temperature of400 ℃.
水在约400℃的超临界温度下，几乎所有的氢键都裂解了。
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I was not satisfied till that barrier was broken down, till that separateness was destroyed.
我无法满足,直到那个障碍被拆除, 直到那个分别被摧毁.
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The speaker spoke so fast that he could only scribble down several broken words.
演讲者讲得太快了,他只能匆匆记下几个支离破碎的字.
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结果：分别在F1和F2点测得光击穿及空化气泡闭合与反跳时产生的声压脉冲信号；用石膏小球进行了碎石演示性实验，取得初步结果。
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