smash

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smash1 /smæʃ/ verb

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]BREAK to break into pieces violently or noisily, or to make something do this by dropping, throwing, or hitting it 粉碎；打碎；砸碎

Vandals had smashed all the windows.

破壞分子打碎了所有的窗子。

Firemen had to smash the lock to get in.

消防員不得不砸鎖而入。

Several cups fell to the floor and smashed to pieces.

有幾個杯子掉到地上摔得粉碎。

► see thesaurus at break →5 see picture at 見圖 damage, break

2 [intransitiveI, transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]PUT to hit an object or surface violently, or to make something do this （使）猛撞，猛擊，猛擲

A stolen car smashed into the bus.

一輛被偷的汽車猛地撞上了公共汽車。

He smashed his fist down on the table.

他把拳頭狠狠地砸在桌上。

3 smash a record to do something much faster, better etc than anyone has done before 打破紀錄

The film smashed all box office records.

這部影片打破了所有的票房紀錄。

4 [transitiveT]DESTROY to destroy something such as a political system or criminal organization 摧毀；粉碎；消滅

Police say they have smashed a major crime ring.

警方說他們搗毀了一個主要的犯罪團夥。

5. [transitiveT]DST to hit a high ball with a strong downward action, in tennis or similar games 〔在網球等運動中〕殺〔球〕，猛扣〔球〕 →5 see picture at 見圖 tennis

6.smash something ↔ down phrasal verbphr v HIT/BUMP INTOto hit a door, wall etc violently so that it falls to the ground 擊倒〔門、牆等〕

Examples from the Corpus

smash down• I just wanted to go out and smash a door down.• He just smashed the bottle down across my hand.• They used to smash it down, and it inevitably wound up spilling all over the car.• Yardies called by, smashed his door down, grabbed the man, threw him out through that eighth floor window.

7 smash something ↔ in phrasal verbphr v DESTROYto hit something so violently that you break it and make a hole in it 將〔某物〕砸穿

The door had been smashed in.

這扇門被砸穿了。

smash somebody’s face/head in (=hit someone hard in the face or head) 猛擊某人的臉/頭部

I’ll smash his head in if he comes here again!

他要是再來，我就打碎他的腦袋！

Examples from the Corpus

smash in• In track, only world record-holder Wang Junxia has had staying power since smashing world records in 1993. 16.• Yet, each time, when the smoke had cleared, the enemy was smashed.• They smashed the door in and rushed inside.• Get tooled up with baseball bats and go smash some windows in some club.• Fred Titmus bowled the right sort of ball and I smashed it in the direction of the pavilion.• If you kill the people you love - or run away from them - you only smash yourself in the end.• He kept his hands in his pockets so he would not smash Tony Angotti in the face.• He seized another wooden leg and smashed the glass in the nearest cases with it.

smash somebody’s face/head in• He could just imagine the Woman hitting him, smashing at his face in the dark with the butt of her gun.

8 smash something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v DESTROYto deliberately destroy something by hitting it 〔故意〕撞毀，打碎

Hooligans started smashing the place up.

流氓開始對這個地方進行打砸。

Examples from the Corpus

smash up• And he robbed Madge's house and smashed it up.• I even asked her if it was her that smashed that kiosk up!• It bought out the inner child in me, the one that wants to smash things up.• So, armed with the baseball bat that every convivial hostelry keeps handy, Peggy smashed the joint up.• I suppose now that I could have freaked out and started smashing the place up, getting myself expelled as a result.• Get robbed of a race in the weighing room, smash your shoulder up in a gallop - that's racing.• I imagined Mark and me high on the Walker, on our sixth day, smashing our way up the face.

Examples from the Corpus

smash• Firefighters smashed a bedroom window and rescued a two-year-old girl.• Police authorities say they have smashed a sophisticated insurance fraud ring.• The burglars entered the house by smashing a window.• The stock market rose so quickly it smashed all previous records.• Her camera was smashed by soldiers when she tried to take photographs.• She drove three kicks into his shins and smashed her handbag into the side of his head.• The vase fell and smashed into a million tiny pieces.• They used to smash it down, and it inevitably wound up spilling all over the car.• The violence apparently escalated as white and black youths turned over a bus and began smashing shop windows.• And they drank a toast and smashed the Dixie cups underfoot and turned out the light and went to lunch.• It smashed through the gates, tearing them off their hinges as though they were made of plastic.• No force of nature, nothing paradoxical or demonic, he had no drive for smashing through the masks of appearances.• The boat hit the rocks and was smashed to pieces by the waves.• The bottle rolled off the table and smashed to pieces on the floor.• I heard something smash. What broke?

smashed to pieces• Anything that gets in his way is smashed to pieces.• They were smashed to pieces, as if some one had ground them underfoot.• Would the idyll she had dreamed of be there again, not smashed to pieces as it seemed to be?• It had been smashed to pieces because Timothy Gedge had followed them.

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