bust的意思|bust的解释-里氏词典

bust [bʌst]

n. 半身像, 胸部, 失败, 殴打

vt. 使爆裂, 使破产

vi. 爆裂, 破产

[计] 操作错

[经] 破产, 倒闭

He and his wife busted up a year ago.
他和他的妻子一年前分居了。
He got a bust in the nose.
他鼻子上挨了一拳。
His company went bust.
他的公司破产了。

bust

[ noun ]

a complete failure

<noun.event>

the play was a dismal flop

the chest of a woman

<noun.body>

a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person

<noun.artifact>

an occasion for excessive eating or drinking

<noun.act>

they went on a bust that lasted three days

[ verb ]
[ adj ]

lacking funds

<adj.all>

`skint' is a British slang term

bust \bust\ (b[u^]st), n. [F. buste, fr. It. busto; cf. LL.
busta, bustula, box, of the same origin as E. box a case;
cf., for the change of meaning, E. chest. See {Bushel}.]
1. A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the
human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust
The faithless column, and the crumbling bust.
--Pope.

2. The portion of the human figure included between the head
and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest
or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.

3. Especially: A woman's bosom[2].
[PJC]

bust \bust\ (b[u^]st), v. t.
To arrest, for committing a crime; -- often used in the
passive; as, the whole gang got busted. [informal]
[PJC]

bust \bust\ (b[u^]st), v. i.
1. To break or burst. [informal]
[PJC]

2. (Card Playing) In blackjack, to draw a card that causes
one's total to exceed twenty-one.
[PJC]

3. To go bankrupt.
[PJC]

{to go bust} to go bankrupt.

{or bust} or collapse from the effort; -- used in phrases
expressing determination to do something; as, Oregon or
bust, meaning ``We will get to Oregon or die trying.''
[PJC]

Wagner and Brown: "This is definitely not a purchase to bust up Insilco."
He sits in the party committee's office at the Huta Warszawa steel mill, amid the regulation decor: bust of Lenin, potted palm, portrait of Lenin, bust of Marx.
He sits in the party committee's office at the Huta Warszawa steel mill, amid the regulation decor: bust of Lenin, potted palm, portrait of Lenin, bust of Marx.
When will we see her portrait bust hoisted over the orchestra pit where that lethal-looking abstract sculpture remains such a threatening sight; for the moment she is making do with two gigantic plaques hammered into the auditorium's walls.
Fort Worth, also in the shadow of Dallas, has survived the oil bust better than Dallas, the magazine said.
Spreads bust outwards but augmented rather than reduced mine. Marks and Spencer Minimiser, polyamide / elastane, sizes 32-36D-E, 38C-E, 40C-DD Pounds 14. Spreads bust effectively but heavy underwire keeps under-arm line smooth.
Spreads bust outwards but augmented rather than reduced mine. Marks and Spencer Minimiser, polyamide / elastane, sizes 32-36D-E, 38C-E, 40C-DD Pounds 14. Spreads bust effectively but heavy underwire keeps under-arm line smooth.
Zorza, 46, was identified Thursday as one of 39 people in the New York area involved in swapping cocaine for heroin with the Sicilian Mafia in what U.S. authorities described as the biggest international drug bust ever.
During his 29 years on the force, Bell was twice demoted and developed a reputation in some quarters as a cop willing to bust heads first and let a judge sort things out later.
A bust of Anderson sculpted by artist Louis Dlugosz was placed Friday in Batavia's City Hall, alongside a scrapbook of local events held in Anderson's honor over the past six years.
So, despite its considerable advantages of natural resources, deep water ports and location on the Mississippi River, Louisiana has gone bust while other Sun Belt states have boomed.
And make sure the terms are printed in readable, clear type. If your customer goes bust and you need to apply the clause, get in touch immediately and make arrangements to recover your goods.
Holders of securities will rank well behind depositors in the queue for repayment, should the society go bust. So careful selection in this area is needed.
At the same time, however, Hawaii's upward spiral in the late '80s, with linkages to the equity and property markets of Japan and a supervalued yen, makes any prospect of a bilateral bust all the scarier.
He also found time to burp baby George, play three years of varsity baseball, letter in soccer and take part in an occcasional fraternity beer bust at the Delta Kappa Epsilon house.
The speed of the fall indicated that "people are worried that it's going to go bust," said David Grimbley, an advertising agency analyst with the London investment firm Hoare Govett Ltd.
I HAD done what visitors to Cairo do. I had made a camel circuit of Cheop's pyramid at Giza, trudged the gloomy halls of the Egyptian Museum, and bought a Nefertiti bust in a pavement bazaar.
'About 80 per cent of them went bust,' he says, 'largely because these very good engineers did not have even enough financial training to realise they needed more financial expertise.
They give me the opportunity to bust my hump." At 42, with his graying mustache and ever-present bandanna atop his head, Mr. Orum has become a legend, with a reputation for hard work and for standing by his friends.
The question of strength goes beyond the basic issue of whether your life office is going to go bust.
In advertising circles, executives have been quick to jump on the campaign and label it a bust.
List, now 63, remained at large until last June, when the crime was featured on the Fox television show "America's Most Wanted," along with a plaster bust of what List might look like nearly two decades later.
More than half the present 54 companies producing cotton in Japan will merge with rivals or go bust 'soon', he says. Even this projection might be optimistic.
It has no bust of Marx or Lenin, certainly none of Stalin.
The agency making the bust gets the glory and, usually, more funding.
More important to local merchants, the event brought an economic boost to the neighboring western Colorado towns of Nucla and Naturita, which have been devastated by range droughts and a bust in uranium mining.
The union has claimed that Eastern wants to provoke a strike so it can try to break it and bust the union.
And the market is often right when it hammers the shares of companies - the value investor can find that some of his picks go bust. Lynch takes an eclectic approach which uses both the value and growth philosophies.
Moscow City Council voted earlier this year to remove a bust of Lenin from its chambers.
Lyle added: "We tell them to drink until they bust." Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said in an interview Wednesday that "God is on our side and Satan is on the side of the United States" in the Persian Gulf crisis.

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