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词汇 example_english_broken-window
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broken window

collocation in English

meanings of brokenand window


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broken
adjective
uk /ˈbrəʊ.kən/ us /ˈbroʊ.kən/
damaged, no longer able ...
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window
noun
uk /ˈwɪn.dəʊ/ us /ˈwɪn.doʊ/
a space usually filled with glass in the wall of a building or in a vehicle, to allow light and air in and to allow people inside the building to ...
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Examples of broken window


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Allegedly, they had come about a brokenwindow.
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Damages for a brokenwindow or worse can be recovered.
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The brokenwindow would create work for the glazier.
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The ventilation is also probably very defective, but the school had the advantage of a brokenwindow.
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If one brokenwindow is left broken, the following week the next window will be broken.
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Great derelict mills with brokenwindow-panes, deserted mine shafts, do not create an atmosphere such as modern industrialists need—that of the up-to-date well-lighted, well-aired factory often of only one storey.
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Had to climb in through the brokenwindow!
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We freely discussed everything from the appointment of new staff or the violent behaviour of a problem pupil to the latest brokenwindow.
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In one bed, under a brokenwindow, sleep four children, one boy and three girls, two at the head and two at the foot.
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One constituent told me that council workmen arrived to mend a brokenwindow and decided that a new window frame was needed.
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There is also the case of the driver of a lorry which had a brokenwindow the draught from which set up an attack of fibrositis.
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Accommodation which provides the best structural protection against blast and splinter is being selected, and it is also proposed to provide against the dangers of gas and brokenwindow glass.
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After cleaning off the graffiti, why should the perpetrator not pay also for the brokenwindow or the damaged stock in the shop?
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It has been exploited to a point where local authorities—no doubt political friends of the party opposite—have granted certificates of disrepair for such things as one brokenwindow cord.
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One classroom sustained a brokenwindow and fire damage.
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The brokenwindow glasses, the partly corroded steel window frames were replaced/strengthened.
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The cost of conscription can be related to the parable of the brokenwindow.
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No one was hurt, and the damage sustained by the building was a brokenwindow.
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The church survived without even a brokenwindow.
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However, this belief is often given as an example of the brokenwindow fallacy.
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