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。
• That is the depressing conclusion from a growing body of research on the aftermath of big financial busts.
  对金融大萧条的后果越来越多的研究得出了这个令人沮丧的结论。
• 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。
• Collect mummy, Hellenistic Statues and busts of Roman emperors.
  收藏木乃伊、腊的雕像和罗马皇帝的半身像。
• 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。
• 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。
• I'm not usually a fan of busts, but this one is actually pretty cool.
  我不能算是半身像的追捧者，但这一个真得非常酷。
• Capitalism has been subject to booms and busts for at least the past 300 years, notable early examples of which were the Dutch tulip mania and the British South Sea Bubble of the early 18th century.
  至少在过去300年中，资本主义一直在繁荣与萧条之间交替。早期的著名案例有18世纪初的荷兰郁金香风潮和英国南海泡沫。
• 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。
• Financial busts almost always follow credit booms.
  金融崩溃几乎总是发生在信贷繁荣之后。