busts

英 [bʌsts] 美 [bʌsts]

n.  (石或金属的)半身像; (尤指衣服或尺寸)女子的胸部，胸围; (警方的)突击搜捕，突击搜查
v.  打破; 摔碎; 突击搜查(或搜捕); (使)降级，降低军阶
bust的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

    The form bust is used as the present tense of the verb, and can also be used as the past tense and past participle. bust的过去式和过去分词可与原形相同。

  1. VERB 打碎；破坏
    If you bust something, you break it or damage it so badly that it cannot be used.
    1. They will have to bust the door to get him out.
      他们将不得不撞破门把他弄出来。
  2. VERB 逮捕；拘留
    If someone is busted, the police arrest them.
    1. They were busted for possession of cannabis.
      他们因藏有大麻被逮捕。
  3. VERB （警察）搜查
    If police bust a place, they go to it in order to arrest people who are doing something illegal.
    1. ...police success in busting UK-based drug factories.
      警察对英国的毒品加工厂成功实施的突击搜查
    2. Bust is also a noun.
    3. Six tons of cocaine were seized last week in Panama's biggest drug bust.
      上周在巴拿马规模最大的毒品搜查行动中查获了6吨可卡因。
  4. ADJ 破产的；倒闭的
    A company or fund that is bust has no money left and has been forced to close down.
    1. It is taxpayers who will pay most of the bill for bailing out bust banks.
      是纳税人将支付大部分的账单以解救面临倒闭的银行。
  5. PHRASE 破产；倒闭
    If a company goes bust, it loses so much money that it is forced to close down.
    1. ...a Swiss company which went bust last May.
      一家去年5月倒闭的瑞士公司
  6. N-COUNT 半身像；胸像
    A bust is a statue of the head and shoulders of a person.
    1. ...a bronze bust of the Queen.
      女王的半身铜像
  7. N-COUNT （女人的）胸部
    You can use bust to refer to a woman's breasts, especially when you are describing their size.
    1. Good posture also helps your bust look bigger.
      优美的姿势也能让你的胸部看起来更丰满。
  8. to bust a gut → see: gut
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双语例句

  1. However, Jensen, who has busts of both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in her office, is known as a moderate.
    不过，人们都知道延森本人是温和派，她的办公室里摆着罗纳德•里根和玛格丽特•撒切尔的雕像。
  2. Semi-regular infusions of cash tend to create booms and busts.
    不够规律的进行资金“输血”，将会使整个产业在繁荣和萧条间起伏波动。
  3. But their rise and busts came for the same reasons.
    但这两个国家经济兴衰的原因都一样。
  4. The statutory capital requirements should rise during booms and fall in busts.
    法定资本要求应当在景气时增加，不景气时则下降。
  5. Lincoln busts open a panel and compares the inside to a map.
    林肯砸开了一个仪表，同地图上比对。
  6. Macroeconomic theory, our understanding of how economists experience booms, busts, inflation and growth, was found wanting in the global financial crisis.
    我们用来理解经济体经历繁荣、萧条、通胀和增长的宏观经济理论，在全球金融危机中暴露了不足。
  7. Financial history may not be poetry, but the pattern of booms and busts has a certain rhythm.
    金融史或许不是诗歌，但其繁荣和萧条却遵循着某种韵律。
  8. Dey bags swells up and busts.
    那奶袋快胀破了。
  9. Booms start off slowly but busts can be sudden and devastating.
    繁荣的开始总是很缓慢，但崩盘的发生可能是骤然而毁灭性的。
  10. The English-speaking countries are widely perceived to be down and out after housing binges and financial busts.
    经历过住房热潮和金融崩溃之后，人们普遍认为英语国家将陷于穷困潦倒。
  11. I'm not usually a fan of busts, but this one is actually pretty cool.
    我不能算是半身像的追捧者，但这一个真得非常酷。
  12. Busts and monuments remind us of William Shakespeare, Walter Scott and many others.
    铜像和纪念碑使我们想起了威廉·莎士比亚、特·克特以及其他许多人。
  13. This explains why prices in certain markets are subject to periodic booms and busts, because of a lag between the response in production to a change of price.
    这个理论解释了为什么在一些特定市场中由于生产对价格的反映存在延迟，从而会出现周期性的发展及萧条。
  14. There were many marble busts on painted wooden pillars along the walls of the office room.
    办公室的墙上有油漆过的木柱子，上边放着好些大理石的半身像。
  15. Capitalism has been subject to booms and busts for at least the past 300 years, notable early examples of which were the Dutch tulip mania and the British South Sea Bubble of the early 18th century.
    至少在过去300年中，资本主义一直在繁荣与萧条之间交替。早期的著名案例有18世纪初的荷兰郁金香风潮和英国南海泡沫。
  16. The busts lead to banking crises and draconian budget cuts that hurt the poor who depend on government programmes.
    而在萧条期，则会出现银行业危机和大幅削减预算的行为，后者将伤害到那些依赖于政府项目的穷人。
  17. It is also a warning that recovering from housing and credit busts is hard.
    这也是一个警告信号，即自房屋和信贷危机中复原是一个艰难的过程。
  18. The danger in a more explicitly market-based financial system is in heightened procyclicality more euphoric booms and more depressed busts.
    一个更明显基于市场的金融体系的危险，在于顺周期性的加强，这意味着更多非理性繁荣和更多令人沮丧的萧条。
  19. If judged correctly, this allows the economy to adjust steadily, without booms and busts.
    如果判断正确的话，这会让经济稳定调整，而不会出现大起大落。
  20. This special report will argue that the effects of property booms and busts can be made less damaging, but that the asset itself is inherently unsafe.
    本期特别报道将论证，房地产繁荣与泡沫破灭的影响可以变得危害较小，但这种资产本身却具有与生俱来的危险性。
  21. Collect mummy, Hellenistic Statues and busts of Roman emperors.
    收藏木乃伊、腊的雕像和罗马皇帝的半身像。
  22. The cyclical booms and busts that result damage the non-financial economy, and economic policy can counteract this.
    由此造成的周期性盛衰会损害非金融经济，而经济政策能对抗这种风险。
  23. Fickle deposits in banks ancient enablers of calamitous booms and busts in credit deserve even wider attention.
    变幻无常的银行存款自古以来就是灾难性信贷繁荣与萧条的罪魁祸首应受到更广泛的关注。
  24. Financial busts almost always follow credit booms.
    金融崩溃几乎总是发生在信贷繁荣之后。
  25. The currency peg to the US dollar has survived inflation, deflation, and booms and busts in the property market.
    盯住美元的联系汇率制历经通胀、通缩和房地产市场的繁荣与衰败，依然屹立不倒。
  26. But there are many others, because booms and busts seldom have a single trigger.
    但还有许多其他变数，因为繁荣和萧条鲜有单一触发因素的。
  27. By an irony that inflation-hating Germans have trouble seeing, Ireland and Spain suffered property and banking busts at least partly because monetary policy was too German.
    这种货币政策太德国，是导致爱尔兰和西班牙的房地产和银行业不景气的至少部分原因，这里蕴含的讽刺意味，那些憎恶通胀的德国人一直看不出来。
  28. You are at risk from booms and busts in the property market.
    你一定会在房地产市场的投资市场盛衰周期中冒险。
  29. That is the depressing conclusion from a growing body of research on the aftermath of big financial busts.
    对金融大萧条的后果越来越多的研究得出了这个令人沮丧的结论。
  30. Or as ITO says, the endeavour that is "not so much interdisciplinary, but Anti-disciplinary", since it busts traditional definitions of research and entrepreneurship.
    或者正如伊藤穰一所说，这一努力“与其说是跨学科的，不如说是反学科的”，因为它打破了研究与创业的传统定义。
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