smash

1. V-T/V-I If you smash something or if it smashes, it breaks into many pieces, for example, when it is hit or dropped. 打碎; 破碎

Someone smashed a bottle. 有人打碎了一個(gè)瓶子。

A crowd of youths started smashing windows. 一群年輕人開始打碎窗戶。

2. V-T/V-I If you smash through a wall, gate, or door, you get through it by hitting and breaking it. 撞破 (墻或門) 而入

The demonstrators used trucks to smash through embassy gates. 示威者們用卡車撞破大門闖進(jìn)大使館。

3. V-T/V-I If something smashes or is smashed against something solid, it moves very fast and with great force against it. 使猛撞; 撞擊

The bottle smashed against a wall. 那瓶子撞到了一面墻上。

4. V-T To smash a political group or system means to deliberately destroy it. 搞垮 (政治集團(tuán)或體制)[非正式]

Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed. 他們整治政治和搞垮黨派組織權(quán)力的企圖失敗了。