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break out

/breyk-out/US // ˈbreɪkˌaʊt //

爆发,爆发了,突发事件,突发事件的发生

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an escape, often with the use of force, as from a prison or mental institution.
    • : an appearance or manifestation, as of a disease, that is sudden and often widespread; outbreak.
    • : an itemization; breakdown: a hotel bill with a breakout of each service offered.
    • : an instance of surpassing any previous achievement: a breakout in gold prices.
    • : the act or process of removing and disassembling equipment that has been used in drilling a well.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or constituting a sudden increase, advance, or unexpected success: The director has finally scored with a breakout movie.

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Examples

  • Her on-air bits on Meyers’s show became such a breakout hit that Peacock, the parent company’s new streaming site, offered Ruffin her own weekly gig on Friday nights — “The Amber Ruffin Show,” which premiered last fall to critical acclaim.

  • Philly was one of the league’s best breakout stories last year, rebounding from a weak 2019 campaign to make the second round of the playoffs for the first time in eight years.

  • Moveable walls also enable the room sizes to be altered or a breakout room to be created only when needed.

  • Stocks that can generate ample amounts of enthusiasm online, whether inspiring loyalty or just lulz, will, as a rule, be breakouts.

  • Widespread plastics like polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, and polyethylene are so cheap to make that any breakout polymer would have a tough time entering the market, Beckman says.

  • He was the breakout star, and was spectacular, and really took the focus that first year.

  • I'm not that guy from (his breakout 1998 film) Out of Sight.

  • And Wallace is likely to be the breakout star of this season.

  • Jeremy Lin exploded onto the stage as the breakout star of one in a long line of mediocre New York Knicks seasons in 2011-12.

  • Of course, times have changed since 2002, when rock was on top of the world and Interpol was its hottest breakout band.

  • There was no answer from the ground when breakout came and Calhoun drove the Med Ship to a favorable position for a call.

  • His young students took command in four-hour watches, with at least one breakout from overdrive in each watch.

  • There was no answer from the ground when breakout came and Calhoun drove the Med Ship to a favourable position for a call.

  • It was a very good breakout; too good to be anything but luck.

  • By dint of energetic prayer she began to amend, but she had one more very bad breakout.