busts

英 [bʌsts]

美 [bʌsts]

n.  (石或金属的)半身像; (尤指衣服或尺寸)女子的胸部，胸围; (警方的)突击搜捕，突击搜查
v.  打破; 摔碎; 突击搜查(或搜捕); (使)降级，降低军阶
bust的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

The form bust is used as the present tense of the verb, and can also be used as the past tense and past participle. bust的过去式和过去分词可与原形相同。


• VERB 打碎；破坏
  If youbustsomething, you break it or damage it so badly that it cannot be used.
  1. They will have to bust the door to get him out.
     他们将不得不撞破门把他弄出来。
• VERB 逮捕；拘留
  If someoneis busted, the police arrest them.
  1. They were busted for possession of cannabis.
     他们因藏有***被逮捕。
• VERB （警察）搜查
  If policebusta place, they go to it in order to arrest people who are doing something illegal.
  1. ...police success in busting UK-based drug factories.
     警察对英国的毒品加工厂成功实施的突击搜查
  2. Bustis also a noun.
     
  3. Six tons of cocaine were seized last week in Panama's biggest drug bust.
     上周在巴拿马规模最大的毒品搜查行动中查获了6吨***。
• ADJ 破产的；倒闭的
  A company or fund that isbusthas no money left and has been forced to close down.
  1. It is taxpayers who will pay most of the bill for bailing out bust banks.
     是纳税人将支付大部分的账单以解救面临倒闭的银行。
• PHRASE 破产；倒闭
  If a companygoes bust, it loses so much money that it is forced to close down.
  1. ...a Swiss company which went bust last May.
     一家去年5月倒闭的瑞士公司
• N-COUNT 半身像；胸像
  Abustis a statue of the head and shoulders of a person.
  1. ...a bronze bust of the Queen.
     女王的半身铜像
• N-COUNT （女人的）胸部
  You can usebustto refer to a woman's breasts, especially when you are describing their size.
  1. Good posture also helps your bust look bigger.
     优美的姿势也能让你的胸部看起来更丰满。
• tobust a gut→ see:gut

双语例句

• There were many marble busts on painted wooden pillars along the walls of the office room.
  办公室的墙上有油漆过的木柱子，上边放着好些大理石的半身像。
• The statutory capital requirements should rise during booms and fall in busts.
  法定资本要求应当在景气时增加，不景气时则下降。
• Dey bags swells up and busts.
  那奶袋快胀破了。
• It is also a warning that recovering from housing and credit busts is hard.
  这也是一个警告信号，即自房屋和信贷危机中复原是一个艰难的过程。
• The English-speaking countries are widely perceived to be down and out after housing binges and financial busts.
  经历过住房热潮和金融崩溃之后，人们普遍认为英语国家将陷于穷困潦倒。
• The danger in a more explicitly market-based financial system is in heightened procyclicality more euphoric booms and more depressed busts.
  一个更明显基于市场的金融体系的危险，在于顺周期性的加强，这意味着更多非理性繁荣和更多令人沮丧的萧条。
• This explains why prices in certain markets are subject to periodic booms and busts, because of a lag between the response in production to a change of price.
  这个理论解释了为什么在一些特定市场中由于生产对价格的反映存在延迟，从而会出现周期性的发展及萧条。
• Macroeconomic theory, our understanding of how economists experience booms, busts, inflation and growth, was found wanting in the global financial crisis.
  我们用来理解经济体经历繁荣、萧条、通胀和增长的宏观经济理论，在全球金融危机中暴露了不足。
• Fickle deposits in banks ancient enablers of calamitous booms and busts in credit deserve even wider attention.
  变幻无常的银行存款自古以来就是灾难性信贷繁荣与萧条的罪魁祸首应受到更广泛的关注。
• Collect mummy, Hellenistic Statues and busts of Roman emperors.
  收藏木乃伊、腊的雕像和罗马皇帝的半身像。