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burst

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burst1 /bɜːst $ bɜːrst/ ●●○ W3 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp burst)  
1  BREAK OPENbreak open 裂开 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]BREAK if something bursts, or if you burst it, it breaks open or apart suddenly and violently so that its contents come out （使）破裂；（使）爆裂；（使）胀破； （使）爆炸
 The pipes had burst and the house was under two feet of water.
水管爆裂，房子被水淹了两英尺。
► see thesaurus at break, explode →4  See picture of 见图 EXPLOSION
2  be bursting with something FULLto have a lot of something or be filled with something 充满某物
 John was bursting with ideas and good humour.
约翰主意多，脾气好。
 The shops are bursting with food.
商店里摆满了各种食品。
be bursting with pride/energy/excitement etc
 Your mum’s bursting with pride for you.
你妈妈为你感到无比骄傲。
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be bursting with something• a story bursting with ideas• A blueberry muffin should be bursting with blueberries, an apple muffin heavy with apples.• The window boxes were bursting with flowers.• His entire back was bursting with fluids at the end of that day.• At your age one is bursting with ideals.• Well Loaded are bursting with life and enough youth to get refused service at the bar.• Every weekend, Anthony was bursting with news for him.• On the street where Lucy lived, cherry trees were bursting with pink and white like fairground popcorn.• He's got holy terror written all over his face, and his eyes are bursting with pure demon.• Fender's life outside cricket was bursting with unusual achievements.
3  MOVE SUDDENLYmove suddenly 突然移动 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]FAST/QUICK to move somewhere suddenly or quickly, especially into or out of a place 冲，闯，突然出现
burst into/through/in etc
 Jo burst into the room.
乔冲进房间。
4  burst open SUDDENLYto open suddenly 突然打开
 The door burst open and Tom ran into the room.
门突然打开，汤姆跑进了房间。
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burst open• Two bags of paper money hurtled on to the road and burst open.• Then the door'd burst open and Albert Swift and his gang had walked in.• The door of the shuddering carriage burst open, and Fedorov tumbled out, struggling with the woman.• The bedroom door had burst open and Peter was striding into the room.• The door burst open and the kids piled into the house.• But then the door bursts open and yet more soldiers push into the room.• She says the door bursts open just when they reach the cages and the monster comes through.• Douglas burst open the door into the first, where somebody had lit a lamp.
5  be bursting to do something informalWANT to want to do something very much 迫不及待要做某事
 Zach was bursting to tell them something.
扎克迫不及待地想要告诉他们什么事。
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be bursting to do something• The vast reservoir of information he had acquired was bursting to be expressed.• She was bursting to relieve herself, but even though that was what was wanted of her, she couldn't.• They were bursting to tell her things she would never know.
6  be bursting 
a) British EnglishBrE informalHBH to need to go to the toilet very soon 〔大小便〕憋不住了
b) (also be bursting at the seams) to be so full that nothing else can fit inside 胀满，挤满，塞满
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be bursting• The shells were bursting...• By the time I got into position, my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again.• As it is, the Shishu Bhawans seem to be bursting at their seams.• Sure enough, the enemy mortars were bursting in the fields on both sides of the road.• Once again she was bursting into tears over nothing at all.• She was bursting to relieve herself, but even though that was what was wanted of her, she couldn't.• His entire back was bursting with fluids at the end of that day.• Well Loaded are bursting with life and enough youth to get refused service at the bar.
7  burst somebody’s bubble to make someone suddenly realize that something is not as good as they thought it was 使某人幻想破灭
 Steve was so happy I couldn’t bear to burst his bubble.
史蒂夫这么开心，我实在不忍心让他失望。
8. burst its banks if a river bursts its banks, water from it goes onto the land 〔河〕决堤
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burst its banks• Residents were evacuated from the town as the waters rose and the Ouse threatened to burst its banks.• The River Frome had burst its banks after torrential rain and the Rovers' ground was absolutely waterlogged.• The River Deben had burst its banks and people's homes were getting flooded.• Denied its usual egress, the river had burst its banks and was pouring down the fire-ravaged streets.
→ full (up) to bursting at full1(1), → burst/prick somebody's bubble at bubble1(7), → the bubble bursts at bubble1(6) PHRASAL VERBS
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burst• The Concorde disaster was caused by a tyre bursting.• Thousands of gallons of oil flowed into the river when an oil pipeline burst.• Some days it felt like my head would burst.• As I approached Lovat and the two Officers, a shell burst a short distance away.• The dam burst after heavy rains.• It's a game in which children try to burst balloons by sitting on them.• The train struck a dam, which burst, flooding a small town.• Their fantastically long tails danced behind like bridal trains and burst into colour when they caught the sun's final rays.• But Chabert, infectious giggles and all, is close enough to her precocious character to want to burst some picture-perfect bubbles.• Eversince Doyle burst through the door, furious and shouting and shoving, she had stiffened into ice.
pipes ... burst• The plumber is ill, the doctor's pipes have burst, and so on.
burst into/through/in etc• The mob in reaction burst in and set the torch to the structure.• Banks of electrical jiggery-pokery burst into life.• She burst into tears and told me that Charlie had been killed on the Western Front.• This time he turned away, and burst into tears.• What would they do if she burst into tears?• Sure enough, the enemy mortars were bursting in the fields on both sides of the road.• Suddenly Tony Angotti burst through the mall doors.• His partner meanwhile, burst into the room, pistol in hand, the stammerer hard on his heels.
burst2 ●○○ noun [countableC]  
1  BREAKthe act of something bursting or the place where it has burst 破裂，爆炸；喷出；裂口
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burst• There was a burst of incomprehensible laughter.• This had been Sir Ivor at his brilliant best, striking with one deadly burst of speed.• The fast twitch fibres have a much higher contraction speed and are associated with dynamic bursts of energy.• A loud burst of singing gave away the presence of the ubiquitous wren.• They scored 14 points in a five-minute burst.• Surface bursts of large nuclear weapons are an essential part of strategic nuclear war.
burst of anger/enthusiasm/temper etc• This was the sort of reaction that usually followed a burst of temper bordering on rage.• She would have felt more able to respond if only he'd exploded in a burst of anger.• Uncontrolled and dazed, he seized the rim of the desk and heaved with a burst of anger.• Some three years on from that initial burst of enthusiasm and the corresponding outcry from the professional market much has changed.• This was my last burst of anger in defense of President Reagan.
Origin burst1
Old English berstan
burst1 verb →PHRASAL VERBS1burst2 noun
Chinese
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