Break의 다양한 의미

출처: 네이티브영어표현력 사전

 

There are so many different meanings in "break" and I thought it is worth learning them in order for me to sound a lot natural when speaking in English. 

 

"Break"에는 다양한 뜻이 있는데, 이런 표현들을 알아 두면 영어로 말할 때, 자연스러울 것 같아 책에서 배운 것을 정리했다. 

 

1. 걷히다.

<예문> The rain clouds are breaking up. 

 

2. 끝내다, 중지시키다

<예문> We are discussing the steps to break the strike. 

 

3. 나누다.

<예문> We decided to break the trip into three legs. 

 

4. 내리다. 

<예문> I think the fever is breaking.

 

5. 위반하다

<예문> I broke no rules. 

 

6. 잠시 쉬다.

<예문> Let's break for lunch. 

 

7. 전하다.

<예문> I am at a loss how to break the news to her.

 

8. 풀리다

<예문> The cold spell will break soon. 

 

9. 바꾸다

<예문> Can you break a hundred-dollar bill?

 

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[배운 표현을 활용한 에세이 작성]

 

After finishing all the house chores, I thought I deserve a coffee break for a while before going to bed. Even though I do all this work every day, I feel like I will never get used to it. While having a cup of hot coffee, I look out the window as the tree branches were waving. The rains clouds broke up and it seemed that the cold spell would never break in no time. I was worried about going out with my young son, as he needs to get his second influenza innoculation this Friday in this freezing cold weather. He may catch a cold on the way to get the influenza vaccine. When he got innoculated with the influenza vaccine for the first time, he had a slight fever that day and fortunately, it broke the next day. 

My husband got back from work and he looked a little tired. He broke to me the news that he would go out to staff dinner this Friday and I was a bit upset. I was upset not because he broke rules but because he always somehow had a nice excuse for not taking part in babysitting. I wanted to march into a strike against him if there was one, as long as there is no one standing in my way to break the strike. He asked me for some money to go to the company get-together and I had a 50,000 won bill, which I later broke into 5 of 10,000 won bills.