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- Sep 13, 2007
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Bulgarian
- Home Country
- Bulgaria
- Current Location
- Bulgaria
Dear teachers,
Would you be kind enough to tell me whether I am right with my interpretation of the expressions in bold in the following sentences?
What made you break with your best friend?
It can not be the Volsces dare break with us.
If she did not intend to marry Clive, she should have broken with him altogether.
I will break with her and with her father.
break with = separate from, to sever one's relations with; to part friendship
The feeble attempt of the boy to break through the locked door of the shed came to nothing.
The towering 25-year-old Dungannon man is now about to break through the elusive century barrier on the Sony ladder.
A true friend helps us to break through the barriers of self-deceit.
break through = penetrate a barrier or obstruction
If it is urgent we’ll have to break open the cabinet, for I have mislaid the key and won’t be able to find it in an instant.
break open = open with force
When the epidemic broke out all the doctors of the region had to join their efforts to break it down.
break out = develop suddenly and forcefully
break down = demolish, destroy, either physically or figuratively
The governor's speeches broke down the teachers' opposition to school reform.
Thank you for your efforts.
Regards,
V.
Would you be kind enough to tell me whether I am right with my interpretation of the expressions in bold in the following sentences?
What made you break with your best friend?
It can not be the Volsces dare break with us.
If she did not intend to marry Clive, she should have broken with him altogether.
I will break with her and with her father.
break with = separate from, to sever one's relations with; to part friendship
The feeble attempt of the boy to break through the locked door of the shed came to nothing.
The towering 25-year-old Dungannon man is now about to break through the elusive century barrier on the Sony ladder.
A true friend helps us to break through the barriers of self-deceit.
break through = penetrate a barrier or obstruction
If it is urgent we’ll have to break open the cabinet, for I have mislaid the key and won’t be able to find it in an instant.
break open = open with force
When the epidemic broke out all the doctors of the region had to join their efforts to break it down.
break out = develop suddenly and forcefully
break down = demolish, destroy, either physically or figuratively
The governor's speeches broke down the teachers' opposition to school reform.
Thank you for your efforts.
Regards,
V.