Results for “破”

without destruction there can be no construction

to brave the wind and the billows (idiom) / to have high ambitions

to puncture / to pierce

see 看破[kàn pò]

like a hot knife through butter (idiom) / with irresistible force

(of sth sharp) to snag (one's stockings etc)

to be scared out of one's wits / to scare stiff

the country ruined and the people starving (idiom)

(Internet slang) to have a simplistic view of sth (transcription of "too young, too simple" – English words spoken by Jiang Zemin 江澤民|江泽民[Jiāng Zé mín] in chastizing Hong Kong reporters in 2000)

to destroy the old and establish the new (idiom) / radical transformation

see 石破天驚|石破天惊[shí pò tiān jīng]

to declare bankruptcy

symmetry breaking (physics)

to puncture / to pierce / (fig.) to destroy (the facade concealing an unpleasant reality)

to go to the bottom of things (idiom)

tear apart

to pierce / to poke through

to uncover

to fall and smash into pieces

to burst

to have an acrimonious falling-out / to shed all pretense of cordiality / to tear into each other

see 撕破臉|撕破脸[sī pò liǎn]

to fight tooth and nail to get sth

dynamiter

to see through / disillusioned with / to reject (the world of mortals)

(idiom) to see through the illusions of the material world (often a precursor to becoming a Buddhist monk or nun) / to become disillusioned with human society

earth-shattering / breakthrough / remarkable and original work

to break / to shatter

incessant complaining

to talk until one is blue in the face

to wear out one's lips (idiom) / to talk until one is blue in the face / to repeat again and again

to wear out (clothes) / to pierce (a membrane etc)

to make a breakthrough

to split one's sides laughing

(biotechnology) cell disruption

to burst / to split

see 老牛破車|老牛破车[lǎo niú pò chē]

lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom) / fig. slow and inefficient

to be frightened to death

spontaneous symmetry breaking (physics)