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.
     他们因藏有大麻被逮捕。
• 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吨可卡因。
• 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

• The danger in a more explicitly market-based financial system is in heightened procyclicality more euphoric booms and more depressed busts.
  一个更明显基于市场的金融体系的危险，在于顺周期性的加强，这意味着更多非理性繁荣和更多令人沮丧的萧条。
• 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。
• 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。
• The cyclical booms and busts that result damage the non-financial economy, and economic policy can counteract this.
  由此造成的周期性盛衰会损害非金融经济，而经济政策能对抗这种风险。
• Dey bags swells up and busts.
  那奶袋快胀破了。
• Fickle deposits in banks ancient enablers of calamitous booms and busts in credit deserve even wider attention.
  变幻无常的银行存款自古以来就是灾难性信贷繁荣与萧条的罪魁祸首应受到更广泛的关注。
• Busts and monuments remind us of William Shakespeare, Walter Scott and many others.
  铜像和纪念碑使我们想起了威廉·莎士比亚、特·克特以及其他许多人。
• Financial history may not be poetry, but the pattern of booms and busts has a certain rhythm.
  金融史或许不是诗歌，但其繁荣和萧条却遵循着某种韵律。
• The English-speaking countries are widely perceived to be down and out after housing binges and financial busts.
  经历过住房热潮和金融崩溃之后，人们普遍认为英语国家将陷于穷困潦倒。
• Lincoln busts open a panel and compares the inside to a map.
  林肯砸开了一个仪表，同地图上比对。