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noun bʌstbəst 1A woman's chest as measured around her breasts. 胸围 胸围36英寸。 Example sentencesExamples - So, if your ribcage measures 32 inches, your bust will be a 36.
- Imagine you completely mess up her measurements and overestimate her bust or waist?
- Measure yourself first with a tape measure, your bust, waist, and hips, over your undergarments.
- A run on women's dresses at the local clothes shop - sizes 8 and 10, mostly, so I heard, big busts.
- The study, published today in the British Medical Journal, used data included in the magazine covering height, weight and measurements for bust, waist and hip size.
- ‘I'm only a 32B so having a bigger bust would make me feel happier in my clothes,’ she said.
- For 25% of volunteers there was an average inch loss of up to 1 inch from the torso measurements including the bust, waist and hips.
- Include your dress size, bust or chest size and shoe size.
- While tags on Dunnes Stores' garments usually contain the bust, waist or hip measurements, most of the dimensions had to be gleaned from sizing charts on various retailers' websites.
- And she measured me - bust, waist, hips, inseam.
- You can order something, buy it, and then it comes, and it's 50 times better than you thought it ever was, or it could be a big bust.
- She revealed her new 34JJ bust last Saturday on Cosmetic Surgery Live, shown on Five.
- 1.1 A woman's breasts, especially considered in terms of their size.
乳房（尤指大小） a woman with big hips and a big bust Example sentencesExamples - The 19-year-old from Withington is waiting to finish university before having a bust enhancement.
- I wasn't a fitness model, and I didn't have a big bust.
- If your bust measurement is a full size larger or smaller than the pattern, blend the adjustment line from the waistline to the bustline of the next size.
- It was a little big around the bust but looked rather nice on me.
- It was a beautiful dress with a band of deep purple lining where the bust should end.
- We are all beautiful in our own way and don't even realise it, you don't have to be thin with big busts to make it in the world or even just to feel good.
- The beautiful actress had her bust size reduced from a massive 34DD to a 34D because she was sick of men leering over them.
- A note about the boys at our school, they like girls with big busts more than girls who don't have one at all.
- It's a particularly good shape to wear if you have a bigger bust.
- She will not wear an outfit unless her bust is busting out and over, even in the dead of winter.
- But the products are expected to be snapped up by even more women keen to increase the size of their bust.
- Due to increased bust and nipple size, I removed them at the end of my first trimester.
- But, I can't wear dresses with a deep V-neck or a seam under the bust because I have no chest!
- For dresses, blouses, tops, vests, jackets and coats choose the pattern size by the bust or upper-bust measurement.
- Secondly, to get your correct cup measurement: With your bra on, measure loosely around the fullest part of your bust.
- We may be dismayed that a 15-year-old feels her sense of worth rests on the size of her bust, but haven't 15-year-old girls always felt like this?
- From a lift in the bust to a trimmer behind, some of this plus size sexy lingerie is a work of art and most of the fabrics on today's market are truly effective and extremely comfortable.
- Gabe sat up rigidly and attempted to help Sara through a frame that was about two sizes too small for someone with as impressive of a bust as her.
- ‘She's around here somewhere,’ he replied, looking over to a horribly dressed girl with a big bust.
- She finally chose a cheetah top that fit closely and showed off her small stomach and made her bust look bigger.
2A sculpture of a person's head, shoulders, and chest. 半身雕像 Example sentencesExamples - Casters make commemorative or memorial busts and figures specially ordered and designed by clients.
- I was concentrating on a sculpted bust that had caught my eye, a familiar one, worked by a familiar hand.
- The Brock Prize consists of $40,000 cash and a sculpted bust of Sequoyah, the only person known to have created an alphabet.
- But I knew they existed, all right - and not just plaques and statues but even a bust in Westminster Abbey.
- One is of a pair of figures from the shoulders up, looking at two sculpted busts that are, in shape and composition, an exact repetition of themselves.
- More than 70 marble, bronze, terracotta and plaster busts and life-size sculptures are on display together for the first time in nearly two centuries.
- Now the sculptor who made the bust is working on a statue of Nelson Mandela based on that visit to Bedford.
- It was this picture that formed the basis for American sculptor Paul Granlund's busts of Ramanujan, created in 1987 for the Ramanujan Centennial Year.
- The busts feel sculptural and classical; the painting seems like an homage to a monumental past.
- He became, after Nollekens, the most successful sculptor of portrait busts in England.
- Sculptures, moulds, busts, dentures, imprints and masks of Washington's face and body will be scanned with lasers.
- Although he made some figures in his earlier idiom, his later sculptures were mainly portrait busts.
- Little is known of the obscure sculptor who executed the bust.
- The room was decorated with fine eighteenth century art, sculptures and busts of previous political figures.
- Noble sentiment orchestrates the canvas, which was executed for the subject of the sculpted bust on the pedestal, Dr. Upton Scott.
- His architectural sculpture and terra-cotta portrait busts of leading citizens were much admired in their day.
- The bust was sculpted by internationally-renowned figurative artist Ian Walters.
- The monumental bust, The Last Roman, looks on accusingly.
- Next she proceeds to the major works of art like sculpted statues and busts that have been identified as this woman and finally to a briefer look at minor artworks such as cameos.
- One can discern in the mirror other objects in the room such an end table, a sculpted bust, an oil lamp, an oval portrait and a grandfather clock.
Synonyms sculpture, carving, effigy, three-dimensional representation statue, torso, head
OriginMid 17th century (denoting the upper part or torso of a large sculpture): from French buste, from Italian busto, from Latin bustum 'tomb, sepulchral monument'. Originally bust referred only to sculpture, usually a piece of sculpture representing a person's head, shoulders, and chest. The term came into English in the 17th century through French from Italian busto. The Latin source of the Italian word was bustum ‘a tomb, sepulchral monument’. When in the early 18th century a living person was described as having a bust, there was usually some comparison with marble or a sculpture. It was not until the later 19th century that the word appeared in the context of dress and fashion, and the measurement of a woman's bosom for clothing sizes. The bust, meaning ‘to break’ is a mid 18th-century US variant of Old English burst.
Rhymesadjust, august, combust, crust, dust, encrust, entrust, gust, just, lust, mistrust, must, robust, rust, thrust, trust, undiscussed verbbusted bʌstbəst [with object]informal 1Break, split, or burst. 打破；炸破，破开 they bust the tunnel wide open 他们把隧道炸开。 figurative the film bust every box office record 〈喻〉这部电影打破了所有票房纪录。 no object the colour control had bust Example sentencesExamples - For those who cannot afford the machines, Mr Saville recommended practical allergy busting solutions like vacuuming mattresses, pillow covers and sheets to kill the dust mites.
- When this drug comes across a clot or a fat deposit it busts it clean away.
- Council house rents in Rotherham are to rise by an average of 5.5 per cent - an inflation busting increase on the heels of an 8.3 per cent rise last year.
- He didn't waste time trying to pick the lock, he busted the door in one burst of adrenalin.
- An emphatic ‘no,’ we discover - busting a generic stereotype wide open.
- At least once a week, Cory Schlesinger must have his face mask replaced because he either snaps the posts or busts the welds.
- One myth I would like to bust is that PR is a measure of a web site.
- Reich can take some of the credit for busting the stranglehold on the 20th century of atonal music, which he calls a red herring; he describes listening to such work as akin to taking a bitter pill.
- Only broken furniture, busted doorways, and bloodstains.
- A sport where the record busting efforts of yesteryear are now are much fewer and farther between, with more people running slower or even jumping or throwing less than they used to?
- Their shows suck, their toys bust too easily and games nowadays just don't have the same imagination.
- The new techniques combine the use of clot busting drugs with clot macerating devices to break up the clot in the leg.
- Senior officers from across the authority have now been asked to find more than £3 million of savings to avoid busting the budget and redundancies are expected.
- Then one night, a soldier busts my front door in, drunk from the victory parties.
- I fell, and broke my leg in two places, and completely busted my wrist.
- The bottle busted and up burst a huge puff of milky white smoke.
- I've split my lip and busted my eyebrow, but luckily I haven't broken any bones.
- Already he's five ahead of where the Cardinals man was when he busted Babe Ruth's 34-year record.
- They would need to bust the enemy lines wide open.
- You skip around the back and quietly encourage the locks to take a break, while I bust the front door lock.
Synonyms break, crack, snap, fracture, shatter, smash, smash to smithereens, fragment, splinter disintegrate, fall to bits, fall to pieces split, burst, rupture tear, rend, sever, separate, divide rare shiver - 1.1bust upno object (of a group or couple) separate, typically after a quarrel.
（小组成员，夫妻）分离；离婚；（婚姻或友谊）破裂（尤指因争吵） now they've bust up, she won't inherit the house Example sentencesExamples - I got a big head and couldn't handle it, then my marriage busted up and I almost went nuts.
- Once, in the Phillips neighborhood, Shiz says, he was hanging out and smoking pot in a friend's backyard when cops busted up the gathering and encouraged a rookie to beat him up.
- Spain announced that it had busted up and arrested members of a terrorist group that recruited young Muslim men in Europe to go as fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq.
- No, we don't get to see anybody go on an LSD trip, and no, the Hell's Angels don't arrive to bust up the party, but the play is just as, if not more, entertaining all the same.
- They have seized companies run by mobsters in the drywall, window-replacement, and painting industries to bust up cartels.
- There were all kinds of dances that got busted up by the police, but I'd have to say that getting married at Sugar Minott's Youth Promotion studios was quite memorable.
- She looked quite good, which is nice as her and her partner of many years busted up recently after a succession of late night screaming matches that clearly penetrated the floor/ceiling separating our respective flats.
- One wonders how an ad might read when the relationship inevitably busts up.
- Another chance to bust up the happy couple is thrown away.
- We show you how to keep your pal's prying eyes from your paper… without busting up the friendship.
- All three, moreover, are certain that Eliska is just after mom's dough, so they conspire to bust up the couple, eventually and alarmingly concluding that one of them should bed mom's girlfriend.
- 1.2 Violently disrupt.
men hired to bust up union rallies 雇来破坏工会集会的人。 Example sentencesExamples - Australian government incites company action to bust steel strike
- It's certainly ironic that the ultimate union-buster has been ambushed by another powerful exercise in union busting, albeit one more subtly executed without dogs and balaclavas.
- The only way to bust a union is to lie, distort, manipulate, threaten, and always, always attack.
- We are sending a loud and clear message: ‘Union busting no way!’
- They are clearly seeking to bust the unions in a state that is already less than 4 percent unionized.
- The memo tries to make inspectors, in effect, the ‘eyes and ears’ of the government's strike and solidarity busting operation.
- By making it hard for us to unionize these workers, they are showing that they want to bust the union.
- And are there factions within business who don't embrace the union busting agenda that we can work with constructively?
- Last week the company announced that managers would be called on to drive buses, with a free service offered in an attempt to bust the strike.
- They are also protesting the company's union busting tactics.
- They have used globalization of the economy to bust unions, to keep wages low, to keep benefits low, and that's had an impact on a lot of workers.
- But even if it doubles and it's every five years you have still got the question of what happens if the factory tries to bust the union between the five-year period.
- The government should revise its definition of anti-social behaviour and target crimes such as war, racism, corporate greed, environmental abuse, union busting, civil rights abuses, and arms dealing.
- By federalizing the workforce, the government was also, in effect, busting those unions and tearing up their newly won contracts.
- The system hummed along for the best part of 100 years delivering practical outcomes with bipartisan support until the neo-conservative ethos of union busting was imported into this country.
- The company is refusing to bargain in good faith with the union and trying to bust it by preventing a first contract.
- 1.3North American Strike violently.
〈主北美〉猛烈打击 Tamara bust him in the eye Example sentencesExamples - Talk then shifted to the big chair shot he took from Credible that busted him open pretty bad, leaving a big dent in his head.
- Maybe I busted my lip open last night when I collapsed on the floor.
- I saw him literally bust one guy in half with shots to the body.
- Passport control officers entered the train, and immediately started busting the chops of everyone in our cabin.
- He then began hitting himself, and busted himself open hardway.
- I don't remember sitting down. Unfortunately, my blankets protect me and I do not bust my head open on the bed post.
- Gabrielle felt tears of pain well up in her eyes as her lip was busted open.
- His nose had dried blood all over it, and his lips were busted open.
- He needs some nurturing as he got in a fight at work last night and now has a smashed nose and busted up lip.
- He then pounded Eddie some more busting him open and left in the low rider.
- It bothered him a great deal that I would want to be with Marcus more then him and he made it a game to taunt at me about my past until I didn't know whether to burst into tears or bust his nose.
- Someone busted his forehead open with a car stereo; another rioter tried to slice his ear off.
- Caleb twisted himself around once more and kicked Riley in the face, slipping open his lips and busting his nose, causing blood to spill forth from each orifice.
- I was so angry, I could have busted his knee cap, broken his jaw, and broken his arms, but I controlled myself.
- 1.4bust outno object Escape.
她越狱了。 Example sentencesExamples - I want to lose this covering of fat and see some muscle busting out!
- So I've decided that if I ever go to jail, I am definitely busting out!
- Most certainly, this dainty little madam busted out of garden cultivation to spread fast and loose.
- A soldier busts out of an outpost and you gun him down before he can do the same to you.
- Can you bust out of a jail cell with dynamite?
- ‘My chest was busting out of my shirt when I teed off on that first hole at the Solheim Cup because it's such a great thrill to represent your country,’ she claimed.
- In the last few years, as they did in the late '60s and '80s, comics have once again busted out of their relegated spot in the cultural margins.
- A serial bank robber busts out of prison, with a federal cop as an accidental hostage.
- We're talking about you busting out of habitual patterns, bailing on projects that have lost their luster.
- Later in 1916 he busts out of a German PoW camp.
- I think it's so wonderful that this is what's busting out.
- With the rainy season soon about to be busting out all over, however, he is likely to have other, equally urgent, priorities thrust upon him.
- Every baby I would swaddle would end up busting out of his bundle and crying his damn little head off, limbs flailing and clawing at the air.
- 1.5no object (in blackjack and similar card games) exceed the score of 21, so losing one's stake.
（玩21点及类似牌戏）超点输掉赌注，涨裂 Example sentencesExamples - Solid citizens with stiffs don't lose any worse if a 17 is improved, and there seems to be a good chance that the dealer, drawing, will bust and pay everyone.
- Seems staying pat and not busting, especially with a 16 against a seven, is the smarter play.
- If you're playing first base and you bust or get a Blackjack, don't wait for the other hands to be completed to have a completed count.
- Note that if the player busts he loses, even if the dealer also busts (therefore Blackjack favors the dealer).
- Won all four hands when the dealer busted after I split a pair of 8s, resplit and resplit again.
2North American (of the police) raid or search (premises where illegal activity is suspected) 〈主北美〉袭击；搜查 我的房子被人搜过了。 Example sentencesExamples - This was an unusual investigation because most meth labs aren't busted by good police work.
- A few months ago, the cops busted an illegal numbers operation - the local Mafia's preferred racket these days - a few miles up the street from Vesuvio's.
- Back in 1996 we saw the first clandestine P laboratory busted by the police.
- Whether the police actually busted the premises, remains unknown.
- Immigration police last week busted an international drug ring operating out of Naklua, arresting five people, two Thais and three Malaysians.
- The site was apparently part of a organisation busted by police.
- Armed police have busted two drug houses just metres from two Bay school playgrounds - seizing 200 cannabis plants and making five arrests.
- On February 10, 2000, Montreal police busted the club.
- In August 2001, the Delhi Police busted an international illegal exchange in Jasola Vihar.
- When police busted the home they found much of the operation had been taken down.
- She was later released, then arrested again (along with a dozen others) when police busted a house orgy a week later.
- McCloy's short, but fascinating piece documents the events of one fateful night when a gig is busted by the police.
- We have heard that the first clan-labs were busted by the police in about 1998.
- He was on the run after Singapore police busted an earlier plot to bomb Western embassies there.
- If he isn't, why do the police keep busting his home?
- It seems unbelievable to Shafer that there could be dozens of active stash houses without the police busting them all.
- Presumably the local sausage pusher whom they buy from keeps getting busted by the police for selling sausages to children, or something.
- After watching seven performers perform, police busted a sex show in North Pattaya, arresting all seven performers and the venue's manager.
- How much advance fee loan scams take in is not known - one London-based scheme that police busted last year may have netted millions over several years.
- The Club was busted by police in the early '80s, something which heralded its demise.
Synonyms raid, search, make a search of, swoop on, make a raid on informal do over - 2.1 Arrest.
逮捕 two roadies were busted for drugs 巡回乐队两名管理员被搜身查找毒品。 Example sentencesExamples - They had seen sketchy reports in that morning's newspapers of a musician being busted for possession of drugs.
- Around that time, he was busted for possession of marijuana and spent two years in prison.
- One third of Canadians arrested abroad were busted for drugs, making it the most commonly prosecuted offence.
- Employees at a morgue in India have been busted for allowing local traders to store fish (meant for consumption) in among their dead bodies.
- Remember when we got busted by the Park Ranger for putting our raft in the retention pond?
- He was busted for using fake checks to buy pizzas, but they knew if they could just identify him, he'd be good for a lot more crime across the country.
- A few weeks ago, he was busted for possession of marijuana at school.
- DEA agents sometimes pose as chemical salesmen in order to bust suspected ecstasy cooks.
- In December, 1999, Gaffney was busted for stealing some cash and a gold watch.
- A respected art dealer is busted for selling a Cheyenne war bonnet.
- A couple of employees in the postal dept. have already been busted for taking out credit cards in student and faculty names.
- Inspector Minks, who busted him at an illegal rave for drugs possession, has other ideas.
- His parents cut him off financially when he told them he'd been busted for drugs.
- Not testing is cheaper and easier than testing, and your athletes are much less likely to be busted for doping.
- The police busted them for squatting within a fortnight.
- They are undercover police officers trying to bust drug smugglers.
- The film is based on the story of a drug dealer, who's busted by the cops early in the film for having a couch full of illegal substances.
- Do you want to be busted for drugs by a dog that isn't properly trained?
- He was busted for smuggling the stuff in January 2000.
Synonyms arrest, apprehend, take into custody, seize, take in, take prisoner, detain, put in jail, throw in jail - 2.2be/get busted Be caught in the act of doing something wrong.
被逮个正着 I sneaked up on them and told them they were busted 我偷偷地走近他们，告诉他们说他们被当场抓住了。 - 2.3US Reduce (a soldier) to a lower rank; demote.
〈主美〉使（士兵）降级；使降职 他被降级为列兵。 Example sentencesExamples - That soldier had already been busted to El and was on the short list for an administrative discharge.
- First you go get yourself a silver star, then you get busted to private.
- Now, even though no one was hurt, there was talk of busting him down to private.
- Billy has observed this and gets busted in rank for slugging Capt. Hanks at a formal ball one night.
- Eastwood plays ex-Lieutenant Kelly, who was busted down to private as a scapegoat for a failed mission.
- He gets busted down to the ranks for accidentally winging a hostage.
noun bʌstbəst informal 1A period of economic difficulty or depression. 经济萧条（或不景气）时期 the boom was followed by the present bust 经济繁荣后是当前的萧条。 Example sentencesExamples - Chinese authorities, however, believe that they can stage an orderly deflation of the bubble and thereby prevent an economic bust.
- The bust remained a bust, and no amount of money magic could restart the boom.
- As we explain on page 8, what has happened is a classic example of the boom to bust cycle built into capitalism.
- And the bust is a period of stagnation and destruction.
- Likewise recessions or economic busts are set in motion if people suddenly change their psychology and stop spending.
- Your correspondent is old enough to have actually participated in the economic booms and busts of the last 40 odd years, housing included.
- This pool of finance has over the years been increasingly funneled into speculative channels, fueling refashioned booms and busts around the globe.
- And how bad would the tech bust have been if the bubble hadn't been so big?
- We are not in recovery; it is nothing more than a little boom that ultimately will turn into a bigger bust.
- Big bucks can make for a big bang, but they can all to easily lead to a big bust.
- Consequently, this leads to a fall in real output, i.e., to an economic bust.
- From Bangkok to Boston, it is under close global focus as pundits search for signs of the next big bust.
- It is a cynical camouflage for problems caused by the boom and bust rhythm of capitalism, and the bosses' insistence that profits come before people.
- Economic cycles follow a pattern; the most basic pattern is boom, bust, boom, bust.
- On the other hand, the French and the Dutch probably haven't done done us Yanks any big favor, since the eventual bust is likely to be proportional to the size of the bubble.
- It's only common sense to pay off our debts before the next big bust.
- But as some economists have pointed out: the longer the boom, the bigger the bust.
- Cold Wars, Hot Wars, economic booms and busts, the rapacious scramble for resources: we hear the warnings of countries, the shouts of other countries in greedy triumph.
- It flames it, it makes the bigger booms and busts.
- More recently we have relied on consumer spending to prop up the economy during the bust.
2A raid or arrest by the police. 搜查毒品。 Example sentencesExamples - She says immigrant women would be reluctant to trust an agency that accompanies police on busts.
- The Tasty Bust Reunion also features ten years since the famous police bust in Melbourne.
- The police bust that scuppered the alleged plans followed a tip-off from a member of the public at about 8pm on Monday.
- ‘The five tons of cocaine seized in this operation is one of the largest busts in the police history,’ Pardew said.
- Another scene shows how that balance can be thrown off by a surprise police bust.
- There have also been big busts, however, in Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania.
- Police have arrested an alleged key member of a drug syndicate after the biggest cocaine bust in Hong Kong's history.
- The current rash of raids and busts on bars that showcase objectionable entertainment is making some of our tourists itch.
- If the big guy isn't caught, the bust does very little to end his drug operation.
- The bust was made after police received a tip from the public.
- Three senior Victorian drug squad detectives and one of their wives, also a police officer, allegedly used money confiscated during heroin busts to fund the purchase of cars, boats, property and cattle.
- In the ensuing media fracas, McAvoy's bust has rivalled Jordan's for the number of column inches generated.
- How to fight back against a bad bust or police harassment was something that he and fellow musicians had been discussing for years.
- When the day's bust is complete, police have arrested three men in front of Sun Pay.
- He was also usually the one who got in the police's way when they were trying to make a bust.
- In addition to last April's bust, Hengchun police said last summer they also arrested drug users at Baishawan, a secluded beach they believe to be a favorite spot for ecstasy users.
- A suspected drug dealer was arrested during a dawn raid on his house, the latest in a series of weekly busts by Merton police.
- When a cornered drug dealer aims his pistol at the officers during a bust, they return fire, killing him instantly.
- And isn't it true that some of the biggest busts have related to people who exchanged this type of material via email or through websites?
- During the bust, police seized three kilograms of cocaine having an estimated street value of $255,000.
3A worthless thing. 无价值的事物 cynics remain convinced the political process is a bust Example sentencesExamples - The biggest bust might be this player, whom the Jets grabbed with the first pick of the second round.
- After being baseball's biggest bust, the Cubs shook things up by firing their third base coach.
- And her last Tupperware party on Valentine's Day was a big bust.
- Mechanical failure made Wednesday and the rest of the week a bust for work, opening a surprise dead spot in my schedule.
- The biggest bust of the 2002 draft barely plays and pretty much has turned teams off of European mystery men.
- The team expects bigger things from LHP Ricardo Rincon, a major bust last season after he was acquired from Pittsburgh for OF Brian Giles.
- There is no pressure for him to succeed, for the consensus is that he's one of the biggest first-round busts in recent memory.
- Or will Brown continue to be one of the league's biggest busts?
- Rice obviously isn't the player he was in Miami or Charlotte, and the big contract New York gave him looks like a long-term bust.
- Face it, he isn't a bust on the level of Kevin Brown or Carl Pavano obviously, but he isn't what people were expecting.
- We all know Kwame Brown is a bust on the court.
- Between 1990 and 2000, 12 of the 21 quarterbacks taken in the first round were busts, by my definition of the term.
- The biggest early bust of the college basketball season?
- He would have been the biggest bust on this side of sector nine, but he got away.
- Will the aforementioned ex-Browns D-linemen pan out or stay mired in bust status?
- They are reasonable choices, but if you want the biggest bust, he has to be it.
- Here is a look at this year's potential first-round receivers, with their chances of being an NFL bust denoted by a risk factor.
- He will be the biggest bust of the 2005 season.
- He has been the biggest bust after starring for the Padres.
- On the other hand the big bang has been turning out to be a big bust.
4North American A violent blow. 〈主北美〉重击 冲着鼻子的一记重击。 Example sentencesExamples - And a bust on the chops (for I would let him take the first swing) would be absolutely worth it if he got put away.
- "Crazy as a loon!" said the big tunnel worker, and that got him a bust on the nose.
adjective bʌstbəst informal 1British Damaged or broken. 〈英〉坏掉的；断掉的 the vacuum cleaner's bust Example sentencesExamples - Louise struggles with the car door before remembering about the bust lock, before remembering about leaving the door open.
- Even the bust radio and lost radar bleeps sinking in the fluid can't pull it from its descent into something wetter than electronics.
- This, incidentally, is also the case if you do a ‘repair’ to fix a bust system - not exactly friendly.
- The wakeful partner looks as if she was constructed piecemeal, again with a bust pendant from her broad shoulders.
- It's about being stuck in the sticks with a bust radio, a girl called Megan and some wolfy things in the woodshed.
- Only there were no-one else around, just Michael and me, and poor ole Pete on the floor nursing a bust lip.
- Blood spurted out of his bust lip, and Jameson lifted his finger to it.
- If you want to replace busted Volvo lights, service tool kit can help you do the job without a fuss.
- Her face was bleeding with a bust lip and swollen eye.
- A couple of the white guys had black eyes or a bust lip.
- With one punch I was on the floor with a bust nose.
- She started me, I jumped up, I got one of my dizzy spells, and she gave me a bust lip and probably a black eye.
2Bankrupt. 破产的 six of their sponsors have gone bust Example sentencesExamples - It's the fact that the heady rush of patriotism helps mask the hangover of a bubble economy gone bust.
- If police forces were to go bust, Lancashire would be one of them.
- The directors of a bust Hampshire dealership have been charged with supplying counterfeit software to more than half of the UK's police forces.
- That meant big firms going bust, others scrapping investment plans, and others consolidating their operations in their countries of origin.
- However, all lenders are ranked before shareholders so if a company does go bust it is rare for shareholders to get much money back.
- Many companies have gone bust because they have failed to do so.
- The survey revealed firms in Scotland are nearly half as likely to go bust than their English counterparts.
- The company went bust with 30,000 people losing their jobs and £40 million of debt.
- So why is California, with its $1.3 trillion economy, going bust?
- The inflated value of the peso helped maintain an illusion of prosperity long after the economic boom had gone bust.
- I think New York has so many tunnels due to a subway craze at the turn of the century and when the bubble burst and the companies went bust the tunnels got sealed off.
- But then again how many businesses are going bust right now because they can't get the right people because they can't face the commute?
- Most major accountancy firms believe any SPL club consistently paying more than 60% of turnover on wages run the risk of going bust.
- Liverpool went bust because its economy depended on the docks, and it was on the wrong side of the country for trade with Europe.
- The technology and computer sector recorded 27 failures, while 27 bars, restaurants and food outlets also went bust during the period.
- It's a pretty unpleasant experience when a company you've invested in goes bust and you lose your entire investment.
- After all what is the value of a bust recruitment company with no contracts?
- But even success-only fee lawyers will find it difficult to act for a bust business.
- It's rare that an airline will go bust overnight, but it's still a good idea to know your options.
- If the Government hadn't reversed some of the Bacon measures in the Budget, building firms would have gone bust by now.
Synonyms fail, collapse, crash, fold (up), go under, founder, be ruined, cave in go bankrupt, become insolvent, cease trading, go into receivership, go into liquidation, be liquidated, be wound up, be closed (down), be shut (down) informal go broke, go bump, go to the wall, go belly up, come a cropper, flop, flatline
Phrasesinformal Used to indicate that a supreme effort will be made to achieve the stated goal, with utter failure as the only alternative. it's gold medal or bust for both of our basketball teams tomorrow's game is quite simply win or bust for both teams Example sentencesExamples - He admitted to thinking it was all or bust after losing the 192 points from the Queensland round.
- Unfortunately, the industry has adopted the unsustainable "blockbuster or bust" business model.
- This game had been billed as win or bust.
- It looked like a case of promotion or bust.
- After a year of programming, he decided it was Wall Street or bust.
OriginMid 18th century (originally US, as a noun in the sense 'an act of bursting or splitting'): variant of burst. nounbəstbəst 1A woman's chest as measured around her breasts. 胸围 胸围36英寸。 Example sentencesExamples - A run on women's dresses at the local clothes shop - sizes 8 and 10, mostly, so I heard, big busts.
- Imagine you completely mess up her measurements and overestimate her bust or waist?
- You can order something, buy it, and then it comes, and it's 50 times better than you thought it ever was, or it could be a big bust.
- Measure yourself first with a tape measure, your bust, waist, and hips, over your undergarments.
- So, if your ribcage measures 32 inches, your bust will be a 36.
- And she measured me - bust, waist, hips, inseam.
- The study, published today in the British Medical Journal, used data included in the magazine covering height, weight and measurements for bust, waist and hip size.
- While tags on Dunnes Stores' garments usually contain the bust, waist or hip measurements, most of the dimensions had to be gleaned from sizing charts on various retailers' websites.
- ‘I'm only a 32B so having a bigger bust would make me feel happier in my clothes,’ she said.
- For 25% of volunteers there was an average inch loss of up to 1 inch from the torso measurements including the bust, waist and hips.
- Include your dress size, bust or chest size and shoe size.
- She revealed her new 34JJ bust last Saturday on Cosmetic Surgery Live, shown on Five.
- 1.1 A woman's breasts, especially considered in terms of their size.
乳房（尤指大小） selecting clothes that would minimize her big bust Example sentencesExamples - Gabe sat up rigidly and attempted to help Sara through a frame that was about two sizes too small for someone with as impressive of a bust as her.
- If your bust measurement is a full size larger or smaller than the pattern, blend the adjustment line from the waistline to the bustline of the next size.
- It was a little big around the bust but looked rather nice on me.
- She finally chose a cheetah top that fit closely and showed off her small stomach and made her bust look bigger.
- But, I can't wear dresses with a deep V-neck or a seam under the bust because I have no chest!
- Secondly, to get your correct cup measurement: With your bra on, measure loosely around the fullest part of your bust.
- From a lift in the bust to a trimmer behind, some of this plus size sexy lingerie is a work of art and most of the fabrics on today's market are truly effective and extremely comfortable.
- It's a particularly good shape to wear if you have a bigger bust.
- We are all beautiful in our own way and don't even realise it, you don't have to be thin with big busts to make it in the world or even just to feel good.
- I wasn't a fitness model, and I didn't have a big bust.
- We may be dismayed that a 15-year-old feels her sense of worth rests on the size of her bust, but haven't 15-year-old girls always felt like this?
- But the products are expected to be snapped up by even more women keen to increase the size of their bust.
- The beautiful actress had her bust size reduced from a massive 34DD to a 34D because she was sick of men leering over them.
- For dresses, blouses, tops, vests, jackets and coats choose the pattern size by the bust or upper-bust measurement.
- ‘She's around here somewhere,’ he replied, looking over to a horribly dressed girl with a big bust.
- The 19-year-old from Withington is waiting to finish university before having a bust enhancement.
- Due to increased bust and nipple size, I removed them at the end of my first trimester.
- She will not wear an outfit unless her bust is busting out and over, even in the dead of winter.
- A note about the boys at our school, they like girls with big busts more than girls who don't have one at all.
- It was a beautiful dress with a band of deep purple lining where the bust should end.
2A sculpture of a person's head, shoulders, and chest. 半身雕像 Example sentencesExamples - Little is known of the obscure sculptor who executed the bust.
- His architectural sculpture and terra-cotta portrait busts of leading citizens were much admired in their day.
- More than 70 marble, bronze, terracotta and plaster busts and life-size sculptures are on display together for the first time in nearly two centuries.
- Now the sculptor who made the bust is working on a statue of Nelson Mandela based on that visit to Bedford.
- It was this picture that formed the basis for American sculptor Paul Granlund's busts of Ramanujan, created in 1987 for the Ramanujan Centennial Year.
- One can discern in the mirror other objects in the room such an end table, a sculpted bust, an oil lamp, an oval portrait and a grandfather clock.
- The room was decorated with fine eighteenth century art, sculptures and busts of previous political figures.
- The Brock Prize consists of $40,000 cash and a sculpted bust of Sequoyah, the only person known to have created an alphabet.
- Although he made some figures in his earlier idiom, his later sculptures were mainly portrait busts.
- Next she proceeds to the major works of art like sculpted statues and busts that have been identified as this woman and finally to a briefer look at minor artworks such as cameos.
- The bust was sculpted by internationally-renowned figurative artist Ian Walters.
- The monumental bust, The Last Roman, looks on accusingly.
- He became, after Nollekens, the most successful sculptor of portrait busts in England.
- Noble sentiment orchestrates the canvas, which was executed for the subject of the sculpted bust on the pedestal, Dr. Upton Scott.
- I was concentrating on a sculpted bust that had caught my eye, a familiar one, worked by a familiar hand.
- But I knew they existed, all right - and not just plaques and statues but even a bust in Westminster Abbey.
- Sculptures, moulds, busts, dentures, imprints and masks of Washington's face and body will be scanned with lasers.
- The busts feel sculptural and classical; the painting seems like an homage to a monumental past.
- One is of a pair of figures from the shoulders up, looking at two sculpted busts that are, in shape and composition, an exact repetition of themselves.
- Casters make commemorative or memorial busts and figures specially ordered and designed by clients.
Synonyms sculpture, carving, effigy, three-dimensional representation
OriginMid 17th century (denoting the upper part or torso of a large sculpture): from French buste, from Italian busto, from Latin bustum ‘tomb, sepulchral monument’. verbbəstbəst [with object]informal 1Break, split, or burst (something) 打破；炸破，破开 they bust the tunnel wide open 他们把隧道炸开。 figurative the film busts every box-office record 〈喻〉这部电影打破了所有票房纪录。 Example sentencesExamples - They would need to bust the enemy lines wide open.
- Reich can take some of the credit for busting the stranglehold on the 20th century of atonal music, which he calls a red herring; he describes listening to such work as akin to taking a bitter pill.
- I've split my lip and busted my eyebrow, but luckily I haven't broken any bones.
- When this drug comes across a clot or a fat deposit it busts it clean away.
- Senior officers from across the authority have now been asked to find more than £3 million of savings to avoid busting the budget and redundancies are expected.
- Then one night, a soldier busts my front door in, drunk from the victory parties.
- I fell, and broke my leg in two places, and completely busted my wrist.
- You skip around the back and quietly encourage the locks to take a break, while I bust the front door lock.
- For those who cannot afford the machines, Mr Saville recommended practical allergy busting solutions like vacuuming mattresses, pillow covers and sheets to kill the dust mites.
- Only broken furniture, busted doorways, and bloodstains.
- A sport where the record busting efforts of yesteryear are now are much fewer and farther between, with more people running slower or even jumping or throwing less than they used to?
- An emphatic ‘no,’ we discover - busting a generic stereotype wide open.
- The bottle busted and up burst a huge puff of milky white smoke.
- At least once a week, Cory Schlesinger must have his face mask replaced because he either snaps the posts or busts the welds.
- Council house rents in Rotherham are to rise by an average of 5.5 per cent - an inflation busting increase on the heels of an 8.3 per cent rise last year.
- Already he's five ahead of where the Cardinals man was when he busted Babe Ruth's 34-year record.
- One myth I would like to bust is that PR is a measure of a web site.
- The new techniques combine the use of clot busting drugs with clot macerating devices to break up the clot in the leg.
- Their shows suck, their toys bust too easily and games nowadays just don't have the same imagination.
- He didn't waste time trying to pick the lock, he busted the door in one burst of adrenalin.
Synonyms break, crack, snap, fracture, shatter, smash, smash to smithereens, fragment, splinter - 1.1no object Come apart or split open.
分开，裂开 he was laughing fit to bust 差点笑破肚皮。 Example sentencesExamples - Some of the barrels busted open and spilled their deadly contents out and some of the barrels remained intact.
- Of course, he forgot one: the Valerie Plame investigation looks set to bust open fairly soon and may take the Vice President's office down with it.
- The relationship they tried to keep secret for a whole season was about to bust right open!
- Before Seth could respond, his front door busted open.
- Nyx grabbed her hair, and she felt her cheek start to bust open and bleed from Pace's punches.
- The absolute gall of this piece of heart busting open on Mr. Ritter is unconscionable.
- He spun around and tossed Allan clear into another monitor, which busted open.
- He blows harder and harder, everybody laughs in anticipation, and the balloon busts with a big bang right in his face.
- Eliandra turned around and watched the doors bust open.
- The booming voices of Zach and Matt came from the boys' locker room as it busted open.
- It busted open and revealed a ring with a voice box.
- Hearing Nick tell her those things was making the door that contained her feelings for him about to bust right open.
- They busted open as she brushed her rough tongue over them.
- 1.2 Cause to collapse; defeat utterly.
引起崩溃；击溃 he promised to bust the mafia 他许诺要粉碎黑手党。 Example sentencesExamples - Representatives of Mayo County Council also gave the students a demonstration of how the gum busting machine removes chewing gum from street pavements.
- Two days later, again in the Helmand province, the authorities busted another ring and seized four tons of heroin.
- Last month, he turned on a show of force, dispatching 100 police to bust a picket at Feltex.
- And he wouldn't have held things up by insisting on union busting activities that he knew perfectly well would spark outrage among Democrats.
- In the first, the FBI and DEA busted a Colombian paramilitary organization that sought to swap cocaine and cash for millions of dollars of weapons.
- It is less forgiving to progressives, who often need time to debunk conventional wisdom or bust biases.
- As a result, if you cross the line too much, your game can bust your company.
- What if rising short-term interest rates bust the ‘carry trade’?
- In another, Ollie busts his diabolical sister's twisted plans to force his Tarzan-like friend to marry them.
- Elected as president, he has ruled as a warlord; smuggling weapons and diamonds, busting UN sanctions, hiring child soldiers and assassinating chosen enemies.
- An undercover operation out to bust illegal ivory trade, the film by Nikhil J. Alva is a sting operation as real as it can get.
- In January this year, an officer from the organised-crime busting Australian Crime Commission, while on leave, came in to the Sydney office to organise a crime of his own.
- But it busted up the day - I had to leave the office after an hour, spend two in St. Paul, then run back to finish the column in an hour.
- Police services marked a busy but successful weekend in busting illegal traffic of goods and drugs through Bulgarian borders.
- The grime busting anti-litter campaign launched by Keighley's MP Ann Cryer shows all the signs of being a huge success - thanks once again to the children and their teachers.
- Roosevelt, informed of his salvation by Soviet counterintelligence, asked to see the man who had busted the plot.
- 1.3bust upno object (especially of a married couple) separate, typically after a quarrel.
（小组成员，夫妻）分离；离婚；（婚姻或友谊）破裂（尤指因争吵） Example sentencesExamples - Once, in the Phillips neighborhood, Shiz says, he was hanging out and smoking pot in a friend's backyard when cops busted up the gathering and encouraged a rookie to beat him up.
- She looked quite good, which is nice as her and her partner of many years busted up recently after a succession of late night screaming matches that clearly penetrated the floor/ceiling separating our respective flats.
- All three, moreover, are certain that Eliska is just after mom's dough, so they conspire to bust up the couple, eventually and alarmingly concluding that one of them should bed mom's girlfriend.
- Spain announced that it had busted up and arrested members of a terrorist group that recruited young Muslim men in Europe to go as fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq.
- They have seized companies run by mobsters in the drywall, window-replacement, and painting industries to bust up cartels.
- I got a big head and couldn't handle it, then my marriage busted up and I almost went nuts.
- Another chance to bust up the happy couple is thrown away.
- There were all kinds of dances that got busted up by the police, but I'd have to say that getting married at Sugar Minott's Youth Promotion studios was quite memorable.
- We show you how to keep your pal's prying eyes from your paper… without busting up the friendship.
- One wonders how an ad might read when the relationship inevitably busts up.
- No, we don't get to see anybody go on an LSD trip, and no, the Hell's Angels don't arrive to bust up the party, but the play is just as, if not more, entertaining all the same.
- 1.4bust something up Cause (something) to break up.
使分裂 men hired to bust up union rallies 雇来破坏工会集会的人。 Example sentencesExamples - Australian government incites company action to bust steel strike
- They are also protesting the company's union busting tactics.
- Last week the company announced that managers would be called on to drive buses, with a free service offered in an attempt to bust the strike.
- The company is refusing to bargain in good faith with the union and trying to bust it by preventing a first contract.
- The memo tries to make inspectors, in effect, the ‘eyes and ears’ of the government's strike and solidarity busting operation.
- They have used globalization of the economy to bust unions, to keep wages low, to keep benefits low, and that's had an impact on a lot of workers.
- And are there factions within business who don't embrace the union busting agenda that we can work with constructively?
- The system hummed along for the best part of 100 years delivering practical outcomes with bipartisan support until the neo-conservative ethos of union busting was imported into this country.
- By making it hard for us to unionize these workers, they are showing that they want to bust the union.
- It's certainly ironic that the ultimate union-buster has been ambushed by another powerful exercise in union busting, albeit one more subtly executed without dogs and balaclavas.
- The government should revise its definition of anti-social behaviour and target crimes such as war, racism, corporate greed, environmental abuse, union busting, civil rights abuses, and arms dealing.
- The only way to bust a union is to lie, distort, manipulate, threaten, and always, always attack.
- They are clearly seeking to bust the unions in a state that is already less than 4 percent unionized.
- But even if it doubles and it's every five years you have still got the question of what happens if the factory tries to bust the union between the five-year period.
- We are sending a loud and clear message: ‘Union busting no way!’
- By federalizing the workforce, the government was also, in effect, busting those unions and tearing up their newly won contracts.
- 1.5North American Strike violently.
〈主北美〉猛烈打击 they wanted to bust me on the mouth 他们想打我的嘴巴。 Example sentencesExamples - His nose had dried blood all over it, and his lips were busted open.
- Someone busted his forehead open with a car stereo; another rioter tried to slice his ear off.
- He needs some nurturing as he got in a fight at work last night and now has a smashed nose and busted up lip.
- I don't remember sitting down. Unfortunately, my blankets protect me and I do not bust my head open on the bed post.
- He then pounded Eddie some more busting him open and left in the low rider.
- Gabrielle felt tears of pain well up in her eyes as her lip was busted open.
- He then began hitting himself, and busted himself open hardway.
- Caleb twisted himself around once more and kicked Riley in the face, slipping open his lips and busting his nose, causing blood to spill forth from each orifice.
- I was so angry, I could have busted his knee cap, broken his jaw, and broken his arms, but I controlled myself.
- I saw him literally bust one guy in half with shots to the body.
- Passport control officers entered the train, and immediately started busting the chops of everyone in our cabin.
- Maybe I busted my lip open last night when I collapsed on the floor.
- Talk then shifted to the big chair shot he took from Credible that busted him open pretty bad, leaving a big dent in his head.
- It bothered him a great deal that I would want to be with Marcus more then him and he made it a game to taunt at me about my past until I didn't know whether to burst into tears or bust his nose.
- 1.6bust outno object Break out; escape.
逃脱，逃亡 她越狱了。 Example sentencesExamples - A serial bank robber busts out of prison, with a federal cop as an accidental hostage.
- We're talking about you busting out of habitual patterns, bailing on projects that have lost their luster.
- Every baby I would swaddle would end up busting out of his bundle and crying his damn little head off, limbs flailing and clawing at the air.
- Later in 1916 he busts out of a German PoW camp.
- ‘My chest was busting out of my shirt when I teed off on that first hole at the Solheim Cup because it's such a great thrill to represent your country,’ she claimed.
- With the rainy season soon about to be busting out all over, however, he is likely to have other, equally urgent, priorities thrust upon him.
- I want to lose this covering of fat and see some muscle busting out!
- I think it's so wonderful that this is what's busting out.
- In the last few years, as they did in the late '60s and '80s, comics have once again busted out of their relegated spot in the cultural margins.
- A soldier busts out of an outpost and you gun him down before he can do the same to you.
- Can you bust out of a jail cell with dynamite?
- Most certainly, this dainty little madam busted out of garden cultivation to spread fast and loose.
- So I've decided that if I ever go to jail, I am definitely busting out!
- 1.7no object (in blackjack and similar card games) exceed the score of 21, losing one's stake.
（玩21点及类似牌戏）超点输掉赌注，涨裂 Example sentencesExamples - Solid citizens with stiffs don't lose any worse if a 17 is improved, and there seems to be a good chance that the dealer, drawing, will bust and pay everyone.
- Won all four hands when the dealer busted after I split a pair of 8s, resplit and resplit again.
- Note that if the player busts he loses, even if the dealer also busts (therefore Blackjack favors the dealer).
- If you're playing first base and you bust or get a Blackjack, don't wait for the other hands to be completed to have a completed count.
- Seems staying pat and not busting, especially with a 16 against a seven, is the smarter play.
2North American Raid or search (premises where illegal activity is suspected) 〈主北美〉袭击；搜查 Example sentencesExamples - Presumably the local sausage pusher whom they buy from keeps getting busted by the police for selling sausages to children, or something.
- Immigration police last week busted an international drug ring operating out of Naklua, arresting five people, two Thais and three Malaysians.
- The site was apparently part of a organisation busted by police.
- He was on the run after Singapore police busted an earlier plot to bomb Western embassies there.
- If he isn't, why do the police keep busting his home?
- How much advance fee loan scams take in is not known - one London-based scheme that police busted last year may have netted millions over several years.
- On February 10, 2000, Montreal police busted the club.
- This was an unusual investigation because most meth labs aren't busted by good police work.
- When police busted the home they found much of the operation had been taken down.
- A few months ago, the cops busted an illegal numbers operation - the local Mafia's preferred racket these days - a few miles up the street from Vesuvio's.
- Back in 1996 we saw the first clandestine P laboratory busted by the police.
- She was later released, then arrested again (along with a dozen others) when police busted a house orgy a week later.
- In August 2001, the Delhi Police busted an international illegal exchange in Jasola Vihar.
- It seems unbelievable to Shafer that there could be dozens of active stash houses without the police busting them all.
- McCloy's short, but fascinating piece documents the events of one fateful night when a gig is busted by the police.
- We have heard that the first clan-labs were busted by the police in about 1998.
- After watching seven performers perform, police busted a sex show in North Pattaya, arresting all seven performers and the venue's manager.
- Whether the police actually busted the premises, remains unknown.
- Armed police have busted two drug houses just metres from two Bay school playgrounds - seizing 200 cannabis plants and making five arrests.
- The Club was busted by police in the early '80s, something which heralded its demise.
Synonyms raid, search, make a search of, swoop on, make a raid on - 2.1 Arrest.
逮捕 巡回乐队两名管理员被搜身查找毒品。 Example sentencesExamples - Do you want to be busted for drugs by a dog that isn't properly trained?
- He was busted for smuggling the stuff in January 2000.
- A couple of employees in the postal dept. have already been busted for taking out credit cards in student and faculty names.
- The police busted them for squatting within a fortnight.
- Remember when we got busted by the Park Ranger for putting our raft in the retention pond?
- In December, 1999, Gaffney was busted for stealing some cash and a gold watch.
- A respected art dealer is busted for selling a Cheyenne war bonnet.
- The film is based on the story of a drug dealer, who's busted by the cops early in the film for having a couch full of illegal substances.
- They are undercover police officers trying to bust drug smugglers.
- Employees at a morgue in India have been busted for allowing local traders to store fish (meant for consumption) in among their dead bodies.
- DEA agents sometimes pose as chemical salesmen in order to bust suspected ecstasy cooks.
- Inspector Minks, who busted him at an illegal rave for drugs possession, has other ideas.
- They had seen sketchy reports in that morning's newspapers of a musician being busted for possession of drugs.
- His parents cut him off financially when he told them he'd been busted for drugs.
- He was busted for using fake checks to buy pizzas, but they knew if they could just identify him, he'd be good for a lot more crime across the country.
- Not testing is cheaper and easier than testing, and your athletes are much less likely to be busted for doping.
- One third of Canadians arrested abroad were busted for drugs, making it the most commonly prosecuted offence.
- Around that time, he was busted for possession of marijuana and spent two years in prison.
- A few weeks ago, he was busted for possession of marijuana at school.
Synonyms arrest, apprehend, take into custody, seize, take in, take prisoner, detain, put in jail, throw in jail - 2.2be/get busted Be caught in the act of doing something wrong.
被逮个正着 I sneaked up on them and told them they were busted 我偷偷地走近他们，告诉他们说他们被当场抓住了。 - 2.3US Reduce (a soldier) to a lower rank; demote.
〈主美〉使（士兵）降级；使降职 他被降级为列兵。 Example sentencesExamples - Now, even though no one was hurt, there was talk of busting him down to private.
- He gets busted down to the ranks for accidentally winging a hostage.
- Eastwood plays ex-Lieutenant Kelly, who was busted down to private as a scapegoat for a failed mission.
- First you go get yourself a silver star, then you get busted to private.
- That soldier had already been busted to El and was on the short list for an administrative discharge.
- Billy has observed this and gets busted in rank for slugging Capt. Hanks at a formal ball one night.
nounbəstbəst informal 1A period of economic difficulty or depression. 经济萧条（或不景气）时期 the boom was followed by the present bust 经济繁荣后是当前的萧条。 Example sentencesExamples - And the bust is a period of stagnation and destruction.
- Your correspondent is old enough to have actually participated in the economic booms and busts of the last 40 odd years, housing included.
- We are not in recovery; it is nothing more than a little boom that ultimately will turn into a bigger bust.
- But as some economists have pointed out: the longer the boom, the bigger the bust.
- It's only common sense to pay off our debts before the next big bust.
- Chinese authorities, however, believe that they can stage an orderly deflation of the bubble and thereby prevent an economic bust.
- It is a cynical camouflage for problems caused by the boom and bust rhythm of capitalism, and the bosses' insistence that profits come before people.
- The bust remained a bust, and no amount of money magic could restart the boom.
- It flames it, it makes the bigger booms and busts.
- And how bad would the tech bust have been if the bubble hadn't been so big?
- Likewise recessions or economic busts are set in motion if people suddenly change their psychology and stop spending.
- This pool of finance has over the years been increasingly funneled into speculative channels, fueling refashioned booms and busts around the globe.
- More recently we have relied on consumer spending to prop up the economy during the bust.
- Cold Wars, Hot Wars, economic booms and busts, the rapacious scramble for resources: we hear the warnings of countries, the shouts of other countries in greedy triumph.
- From Bangkok to Boston, it is under close global focus as pundits search for signs of the next big bust.
- Big bucks can make for a big bang, but they can all to easily lead to a big bust.
- Consequently, this leads to a fall in real output, i.e., to an economic bust.
- On the other hand, the French and the Dutch probably haven't done done us Yanks any big favor, since the eventual bust is likely to be proportional to the size of the bubble.
- Economic cycles follow a pattern; the most basic pattern is boom, bust, boom, bust.
- As we explain on page 8, what has happened is a classic example of the boom to bust cycle built into capitalism.
2A raid or arrest by the police. 搜查毒品。 Example sentencesExamples - When the day's bust is complete, police have arrested three men in front of Sun Pay.
- In addition to last April's bust, Hengchun police said last summer they also arrested drug users at Baishawan, a secluded beach they believe to be a favorite spot for ecstasy users.
- He was also usually the one who got in the police's way when they were trying to make a bust.
- Another scene shows how that balance can be thrown off by a surprise police bust.
- The current rash of raids and busts on bars that showcase objectionable entertainment is making some of our tourists itch.
- The Tasty Bust Reunion also features ten years since the famous police bust in Melbourne.
- Police have arrested an alleged key member of a drug syndicate after the biggest cocaine bust in Hong Kong's history.
- The bust was made after police received a tip from the public.
- Three senior Victorian drug squad detectives and one of their wives, also a police officer, allegedly used money confiscated during heroin busts to fund the purchase of cars, boats, property and cattle.
- ‘The five tons of cocaine seized in this operation is one of the largest busts in the police history,’ Pardew said.
- If the big guy isn't caught, the bust does very little to end his drug operation.
- A suspected drug dealer was arrested during a dawn raid on his house, the latest in a series of weekly busts by Merton police.
- And isn't it true that some of the biggest busts have related to people who exchanged this type of material via email or through websites?
- She says immigrant women would be reluctant to trust an agency that accompanies police on busts.
- During the bust, police seized three kilograms of cocaine having an estimated street value of $255,000.
- How to fight back against a bad bust or police harassment was something that he and fellow musicians had been discussing for years.
- In the ensuing media fracas, McAvoy's bust has rivalled Jordan's for the number of column inches generated.
- The police bust that scuppered the alleged plans followed a tip-off from a member of the public at about 8pm on Monday.
- There have also been big busts, however, in Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania.
- When a cornered drug dealer aims his pistol at the officers during a bust, they return fire, killing him instantly.
3A worthless thing. 无价值的事物 这是一场没有价值的表演。 Example sentencesExamples - Between 1990 and 2000, 12 of the 21 quarterbacks taken in the first round were busts, by my definition of the term.
- Face it, he isn't a bust on the level of Kevin Brown or Carl Pavano obviously, but he isn't what people were expecting.
- Here is a look at this year's potential first-round receivers, with their chances of being an NFL bust denoted by a risk factor.
- The team expects bigger things from LHP Ricardo Rincon, a major bust last season after he was acquired from Pittsburgh for OF Brian Giles.
- Or will Brown continue to be one of the league's biggest busts?
- There is no pressure for him to succeed, for the consensus is that he's one of the biggest first-round busts in recent memory.
- Mechanical failure made Wednesday and the rest of the week a bust for work, opening a surprise dead spot in my schedule.
- Rice obviously isn't the player he was in Miami or Charlotte, and the big contract New York gave him looks like a long-term bust.
- The biggest early bust of the college basketball season?
- We all know Kwame Brown is a bust on the court.
- The biggest bust of the 2002 draft barely plays and pretty much has turned teams off of European mystery men.
- And her last Tupperware party on Valentine's Day was a big bust.
- They are reasonable choices, but if you want the biggest bust, he has to be it.
- He has been the biggest bust after starring for the Padres.
- On the other hand the big bang has been turning out to be a big bust.
- Will the aforementioned ex-Browns D-linemen pan out or stay mired in bust status?
- After being baseball's biggest bust, the Cubs shook things up by firing their third base coach.
- He will be the biggest bust of the 2005 season.
- He would have been the biggest bust on this side of sector nine, but he got away.
- The biggest bust might be this player, whom the Jets grabbed with the first pick of the second round.
adjectivebəstbəst informal Bankrupt. 破产的 公司将会破产。 Example sentencesExamples - The company went bust with 30,000 people losing their jobs and £40 million of debt.
- It's rare that an airline will go bust overnight, but it's still a good idea to know your options.
- Liverpool went bust because its economy depended on the docks, and it was on the wrong side of the country for trade with Europe.
- But even success-only fee lawyers will find it difficult to act for a bust business.
- Many companies have gone bust because they have failed to do so.
- However, all lenders are ranked before shareholders so if a company does go bust it is rare for shareholders to get much money back.
- That meant big firms going bust, others scrapping investment plans, and others consolidating their operations in their countries of origin.
- I think New York has so many tunnels due to a subway craze at the turn of the century and when the bubble burst and the companies went bust the tunnels got sealed off.
- If the Government hadn't reversed some of the Bacon measures in the Budget, building firms would have gone bust by now.
- After all what is the value of a bust recruitment company with no contracts?
- Most major accountancy firms believe any SPL club consistently paying more than 60% of turnover on wages run the risk of going bust.
- The survey revealed firms in Scotland are nearly half as likely to go bust than their English counterparts.
- So why is California, with its $1.3 trillion economy, going bust?
- If police forces were to go bust, Lancashire would be one of them.
- The technology and computer sector recorded 27 failures, while 27 bars, restaurants and food outlets also went bust during the period.
- It's a pretty unpleasant experience when a company you've invested in goes bust and you lose your entire investment.
- The inflated value of the peso helped maintain an illusion of prosperity long after the economic boom had gone bust.
- But then again how many businesses are going bust right now because they can't get the right people because they can't face the commute?
- The directors of a bust Hampshire dealership have been charged with supplying counterfeit software to more than half of the UK's police forces.
- It's the fact that the heady rush of patriotism helps mask the hangover of a bubble economy gone bust.
Synonyms fail, collapse, crash, fold, fold up, go under, founder, be ruined, cave in
OriginMid 18th century (originally US, as a noun in the sense ‘an act of bursting or splitting’): variant of burst. |