broke

broke1 /brəʊk $ broʊk/ verb

x-refthe past tense of break break的过去式

broke2 adjectiveadj [not before noun]

1 MONEYhaving no money 身无分文的

I’m fed up with being broke all the time.

我受够了老是身无分文。

flat/stony broke (=completely broke) 身无分文的

2 go broke FAILif a company or business goes broke, it can no longer operate because it has no money 破产

A lot of small businesses went broke in the recession.

经济衰退的时候许多小企业都破产了。

Examples from the Corpus

go broke• Mr Menem applied such nonsense in the state of La Rioja, where he is governor; it has gone broke.• Project the numbers forward and government simply goes broke.• Two retiring Republican senators warned their fellow lawmakers Tuesday that they need to fix the Social Security system before it goes broke.• Bethlehem went broke a year later, but a reissue set appeared 20 years later.• A lot of small businesses went broke during the recession.• They are delightful students, but we take them because we'd go broke if we didn't.• He could also go broke - last year, farm incomes fell by 25 percent.• Ninety-nine out of a hundred wildcatters went broke or crazy or both and abandoned their last asteroid with the equipment in situ.• And once you have so many farmers going broke, the ripple effect starts.

3 go for broke informalRISK to take big risks when you try to achieve something 孤注一掷，豁出去

At 2–0 down with ten minutes left, you have to go for broke.

比赛只剩十分钟的时候还是零比二落后，就得豁出去了。

Examples from the Corpus

go for broke• In games, I usually go for broke. 12.• So he felt free to go for broke.• This is not a show you can skimp on, and thankfully director Damian Cruden goes for broke.• So, Major may be going for broke by breaking with precedent.• Jacobsen went for broke on the last nine holes and won the tournament.

4. if it ain't broke, don't fix itdon't fix it if it ain't broke informal used to say that you should not try to improve a system, situation etc that is satisfactory 如果还没坏就不要去修〔指某一制度、情况等还过得去，就不要设法改进它〕

Examples from the Corpus

broke• "Can you lend me some money?" "Sorry, I'm broke."• Who spends his portion will be broke.• I can't go - I'm broke.• She just come back off holiday and she's completely broke.• If you removed the future earnings, Baker told jurors, O. J. Simpson is flat broke.• Bethlehem went broke a year later, but a reissue set appeared 20 years later.• He turned up at my house yesterday, flat broke and hungry.• Tilden died broke, and shunned by many because of his conviction for homosexuality with underage partners.• We're always broke at the end of the month.• Lawrence was so broke he had to wear the same suit to work every day.• Naturally I am broke, or almost.

flat/stony broke• If you removed the future earnings, Baker told jurors, O. J. Simpson is flat broke.• The treating, perhaps fortunately, cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke.• You have obviously suffered considerable ill treatment and you are stony broke.• Mary recalls how they were flat broke and almost living hand to mouth.• I was stony broke, with only a Shell credit card to get me home to Massachusetts.

From Longman Business Dictionary

brokebroke /brəʊkbroʊk/ adjectiveadj informal

1having no money at all or very little money

By 1933 his career was over and he was broke.

2flat broke American EnglishAmE, stony broke British EnglishBrE completely without moneySYN PENNILESS

The district is flat broke and says it will not keep schools open past Tuesday.

Origin broke2

(1700-1800) An old past participle of break

broke1 verbbroke2 adjectiveadj

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