breaking point

音標發(fā)音

Constant use had fretted the sandal strap to the breaking point.
涼鞋由于經常穿，鞋帶快磨斷了。
But if we don’t help, our security relationship with Japan will be stretched to the breaking point.
但如果我們不提供幫助，我們與日本的安全關系將會被推到破裂的邊緣。
The question now is whether some sort of breaking point might soon be reached.
現(xiàn)在的問題在于，某種類型的突破是否可以達成。

President Obama said the current system has led the country to a breaking point, imposing hardships on middle-class Americans who struggle to pay for health care, who are unable to obtain it.
Death is basically just the breaking down of the body, on the physicalist point of view, so that it no longer functions properly.
死亡從根本上說就是我們肉體的損壞,在物理主義看來,肉體再也不能正常工作了
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選
It's all seen from her point of view and at a distance And then somebody is knocking at the door and breaking in, and that's Kane And then there's a close-up of Kane leaning over the bed ? Right?
都是從蘇珊的角度來拍的,鏡頭比較遠,先是有人敲門,那人闖了進來，是凱恩,然后有個對凱恩,俯在床頭的特寫,對么？
麻省理工公開課 - 電影哲學課程節(jié)選

But their connection to the ultimate source of authority has been stretched to the breaking point.
NPR: Lawmakers Have Full Plate for Lame-Duck Session

If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.