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词汇 breakaway
释义 breakaway
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbreɪ.kə.weɪ/ us /ˈbreɪ.kə.weɪ/
an act of separating from a group, especially because of disagreement: (尤指意见分歧导致的)脱离
The sports association accepted the inevitability of a breakaway by the elite clubs.体育协会接受了精英俱乐部将脱离协会这一不可避免的事实。
The breakaway group formed a new political party.脱离出去的团体组建了新的政党。
sports specialized
in the sport of cycle racing(= racing on bicycles), a rider or a small group of riders that goes ahead of the main group and tries to keep at a distance from it, or an occasion when this happens:
The peloton usually catches the breakaway before the finish line.
Without radio contact, if a group breaks away from the peloton the riders usually don't know who is in the breakaway.
There was a breakaway shortly before the first climb.
Solo breakaways are almost never successful.
The breakaway riders were far enough ahead to have hopes of a win.
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peloton
sports specialized
in many team sports such as football, basketball, and hockey, the action of running or moving ahead of all the other players towards the goal:
He scored on a breakaway.
They have some good players now who are very fast on the breakaway.
Soon afterwards she scored another brilliant breakaway goal.
The country experienced a series of regional conflicts and breakaways.
One more crisis or breakaway and the party could be finished.
Retaking control of the breakaway regions was his priority.
What are they going to do—start their own breakaway religion?
Many of the people on the list were part of the breakaway faction.
Most riders in the peloton usually don't know who is in the breakaway.
Teams defending the yellow jersey will usually devote riders to chasing down breakaways.
Their senior guard scored a breakaway basket to put his team on top.
The team were forced to rely on breakaway runs from their star forward.
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bisect
dissociable
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dissociate yourself from something
dissociation
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partible
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unjoined
unmix
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breakaway | American Dictionary


breakaway
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈbreɪk·əˌweɪ/
independent after leaving another group:
a breakaway republic/territory

Examples of breakaway


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For the slightly viscous flow considered here, this angle has to be raised because the breakaway occurs on the top surface.
The third one is a mechanical passive breakaway device that acts as a mechanical link between the helmet and the master robot in normal operation.
Another stipulation implicit in the formulation for the global problem is that the boundary layer remains attached until reaching the neighbourhood of the breakaway point.
At the same time it has precluded the threat of breakaway unions as a threat to established elites in the labour movement.
There will be as many values of u, as breakaway locations allowed in the global flow model.
Indeed, it is something which the anti-sociobiologists might take up successfully in relation to their view of the breakaway nature of human culture.
To determine the breakaway location and the leading-order bodyscale flow in this case, the criterion (2.3) must be used along with other boundary conditions.
Appealing to immediate experience, the subaltern is fated by breakaway capitalism to be defeated, left deluded and helpless, unable to process let alone effectively act on the world.
For most of the country, the divisions and the resulting breakaway factions of the party leadership at all levels, rather than transitional voters, had the greatest impact.
That is perfectly natural, and by and large splinters and breakaways are a nuisance to authority.
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If we can prove that only breakaway groups on either side are conducting those actions, those groups must be chased by the authorities.
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The final outcome was that a breakaway union was formed and for years that union was a thorn in the side of the industry.
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It was that which eventually led to the breakaway.
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The men who go into these breakaway unions are a curse to industry.
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I really cannot see how this could possibly be regarded as a charter for breakaway unions.
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