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- (of a person or organization) declared in law as unable to pay their debts（人, 机构）破产的：
his father went bankrupt and the family had to sell their home.
他父亲破了产, 一家人只好变卖了房子。
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- impoverished or depleted贫困的; 资源耗尽的：
a bankrupt country with no natural resources.
一个没有自然资源的贫困国家。
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- completely lacking in a particular good quality or value〈喻〉彻底缺乏（某种好品质或价值）的：
their cause is morally bankrupt.
他们的事业毫无道德价值。
- a person judged by a court to be insolvent, whose property is taken and disposed of for the benefit of their creditors破产者。
with obj.
- reduce (a person or organization) to bankruptcy使（人, 机构）破产：
the strike nearly bankrupted the union.
罢工几乎使工会破产。
词源
mid 16th cent.: from Italian banca rotta 'broken bench'， from banca （see BANK2） and rompere 'to break'. The change in the ending was due to association with Latin rupt- 'broken'.