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break even

/breyk-ee-vuhn/US // ˈbreɪkˈi vən //

收支相抵,收支平衡,收支持平

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having income exactly equal to expenditure, thus showing neither profit nor loss.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : break-even point.
    • : Energy. the stage at which a fission or fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Alcohol and sugar, even in moderate amounts, are not only sinful but poisonous.

  • This is even more striking in Submission than in his previous books.

  • Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

  • Weiss is likely to get confirmed even as Warren and a handful of other progressive Democrats vote no.

  • For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.

  • Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.

  • Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.

  • I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

  • Genoa has but recently and partially felt the new impulse, yet even here the march of improvement is visible.

  • He was the strangest-looking creature Davy had ever seen, not even excepting the Goblin.