After promising to keep the book for me, he broke his word and sold it to someone else.
他答应把书留给我之后,却食言而把它卖给了别人。
《新英汉大辞典》
2
The two were on vacation in Rome this past March when word of Bear Stearns's own cash crisis broke.
三月,当贝尔·斯登自己的现金危机爆发之时这两个人正在罗马渡假。
3
The BBC "ain't broke", they say, by which they mean it is not broken (as distinct from the word "broke", meaning having no money), so why bother to change it?