- 1nB2/ˈbreɪkθruː/突破；重大進展
an important new discovery or step forward in something you are studying or working on, especially one that comes after you have been trying for a long time.
示範例句 · Example
After months of testing, the students finally made a breakthrough in their science project.
逐字在幾個月的測試之後，學生們終於在他們的科學專題上做出了一個突破。
breakthrough 是由 break（打破）+ through（穿過去）組成的名詞，可以想成「一道推了很久的牆，終於被推開了」。所以它不是普通的進步——前面一定有一段「試很久、都沒結果」的日子，然後某一刻忽然通了，後面的路就好走了。一般的小進步英文說 progress，卡關很久之後的關鍵那一步才叫 breakthrough。它是可數名詞，前面通常要加 a：make a breakthrough、a breakthrough in + 研究的領域。
常見搭配
make a breakthrough
有了突破、做出突破
to finally find the important new step you have been looking for
The team made a breakthrough after two years of quiet work.
a major breakthrough
重大突破
a very important breakthrough
Everyone agreed the new battery was a major breakthrough.
a breakthrough in something
在某個領域的突破
an important new step in a particular area of study or work
There has been a breakthrough in the study of sleep.
the breakthrough came (when …)
突破出現在（某個時刻）
the moment when the important new step happened
The breakthrough came when they tried the test at a lower temperature.
a scientific / medical breakthrough
科學上／醫學上的突破
an important new discovery in science or medicine
The news called it the biggest medical breakthrough of the year.
core核心畫面
You can hold it as the moment the wall finally gives: you have been pushing at the same problem for a long time, getting nowhere, and then one discovery breaks through and the way forward opens up. The word carries both parts — the long stuck stretch before, and the sudden opening.
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breakthroughadj/ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/
- 1
Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
- a breakthrough technological advance
- 2
immunologymedicinesciencesInvolving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
- Breakthrough infections (urine infections that develop in children on antibiotics) can occasionally occur, and if they do, different preventative antibiotics can be given or sometimes surgery to fix the leaky valve can be undertaken.
- There is also growing evidence that while Omicron may cause many breakthrough cases among previously infected or previously vaccinated populations, the morbidity and mortality associated with the disease among them will be lower, they added.
breakthroughnoun/ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/
- 1
governmentmilitarypoliticsAn advance through and past enemy lines.
- 2
Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
- Albert Einstein is credited with making some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern physics.
- In [Raymond] Kurzweil’s future, biotechnology and nanotechnology give us the power to manipulate our bodies and the world around us at will, at the molecular level. Progress hyperaccelerates, and every hour brings a century’s worth of scientific breakthroughs.
- 3
hobbieslifestylesportsThe penetration of the opposition's defence.
- But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.
- 4
businessconstructionmanufacturingThe penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends.
- 5
medicinesciencesThe emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
- She was on two antiepileptics for five years but then had a breakthrough seizure.
- He was managing his discomfort with common painkillers, but one morning he had breakthrough pain causing him to miss work.
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