1[intransitiveI, transitiveT]BREAK to break into pieces violently or noisily, or to make something do this by dropping, throwing, or hitting it 粉碎;打碎;砸碎
Vandals had smashed all the windows.
破坏分子打碎了所有的窗子。
Firemen had to smash the lock to get in.
消防员不得不砸锁而入。
Several cups fell to the floor and smashed to pieces.
6.smash something ↔ downphrasal verbphr vHIT/BUMP INTOto hit a door, wall etc violently so that it falls to the ground 击倒〔门、墙等〕
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smash down• I just wanted to go out and smash a door down.• He just smashed the bottle down across my hand.• They used to smash it down, and it inevitably wound up spilling all over the car.• Yardies called by, smashed his door down, grabbed the man, threw him out through that eighthfloorwindow.
7smash something ↔ inphrasal verbphr vDESTROYto hit something so violently that you break it and make a hole in it 将〔某物〕砸穿
The door had been smashed in.
这扇门被砸穿了。
smash somebody’s face/head in (=hit someone hard in the face or head) 猛击某人的脸/头部
I’ll smash his head in if he comes here again!
他要是再来,我就打碎他的脑袋!
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smash in• In track, only world record-holder Wang Junxia has had staying power since smashing world records in 1993. 16.• Yet, each time, when the smoke had cleared, the enemy was smashed.• They smashed the door in and rushedinside.• Get tooled up with baseballbats and go smash some windows in some club.• Fred Titmus bowled the right sort of ball and I smashed it in the direction of the pavilion.• If you kill the people you love - or run away from them - you only smash yourself in the end.• He kept his hands in his pockets so he would not smash Tony Angotti in the face.• He seized another woodenleg and smashed the glass in the nearest cases with it.
smash somebody’s face/head in• He could just imagine the Woman hitting him, smashing at his face in the dark with the butt of her gun.
8smash something ↔ upphrasal verbphr vDESTROYto deliberately destroy something by hitting it 〔故意〕撞毁,打碎
Hooligans started smashing the place up.
流氓开始对这个地方进行打砸。
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smash up• And he robbed Madge's house and smashed it up.• I even asked her if it was her that smashed that kiosk up!• It bought out the inner child in me, the one that wants to smash things up.• So, armed with the baseballbat that every convivialhostelry keeps handy, Peggy smashed the joint up.• I suppose now that I could have freaked out and started smashing the place up, getting myself expelled as a result.• Get robbed of a race in the weighing room, smash your shoulder up in a gallop - that's racing.• I imaginedMark and me high on the Walker, on our sixth day, smashing our way up the face.
smashed to pieces• Anything that gets in his way is smashed to pieces.• They were smashed to pieces, as if some one had ground them underfoot.• Would the idyll she had dreamed of be there again, not smashed to pieces as it seemed to be?• It had been smashed to pieces because Timothy Gedge had followed them.
4[singular]SOUND the loud sound of something breaking 撞碎声,破碎声
smash of
He heard the smash of glass.
他听到玻璃打碎的声音。
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smash• Julia Roberts' beauty didn't stop Pretty Woman becoming a smash at the boxoffice.• Gives it a smash, gives it a rip.• Suddenly, there was a smash in the kitchen.• the latest Broadway smash