一、详细释义：


v.

砸碎，粉碎 [T]


例句：

Such words simply shatter themselves on the hard fact.

这种言论在铁的事实面前碰得粉碎。


例句：

Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it.

巨浪只能冲击教会，却不能粉碎她。


大大扰乱，毁坏 [T]


例句：

That is why I at myself and shatter my secret in jest.

因此我嘲笑我自己，把我的秘密在玩笑中打碎。


例句：

There was something that can't be mended, and that shattered my whole fortunes early.

这是一件不能补救的事，它过早地毁坏了我的一生。


使极为惊愕难过，给予极大打击 [T]


例句：

Celia was shattered by the experience.

这一经历使西莉亚受到很大刺激。


例句：

Your news shattered me.

你送来的消息使我痛不欲生。


破裂 [I]


例句：

Cathleen was as white as Cade, as if her face would shatter if she spoke.

凯瑟琳跟凯德一样苍白，仿佛一说话她的脸就会破裂似的。


二、词义辨析：


break,burst,crack,crush,fracture,shatter,smash

这些动词均含“打破、弄碎”之意。 break常用词，含义广泛，多指猛然用力将坚硬物打破或损坏。 burst指某物因内部外部压力过大而出现严重破裂、爆开或胀破。 crack多指因长期使用或经受压力，物体表现呈现裂纹、裂口或破裂、裂开，但一般没成碎片。 crush指用力把东西压破或变形。 fracture比crack的破裂程度更深更严重，常指断裂，医学上指骨折。 shatter指破裂为许多支离破碎的碎片，多用指易碎事物。 smash指突然而猛烈地重击某物，使之破碎或完全变形。


三、参考例句：


Nothing could shatter his faith.

没有什么东西能动摇他的信念。


A failure would shatter the hopes of many people.

一次失败会使很多人希望破灭。


Such words simply shatter themselves on the hard fact.

这种言论在铁的事实面前碰得粉碎。


Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it.

巨浪只能冲击教会，却不能粉碎她。


The stone hit the window and a shatter of glass fell on their heads.

石头击中窗户,一阵碎玻璃落到他们头上。


That is why I at myself and shatter my secret in jest.

因此我嘲笑我自己，把我的秘密在玩笑中打碎。


The barbeque was meant to shatter the world record for the globe's largest grill-off.

这次烤肉野餐意图打破最大型烧烤盛会的世界纪录。


Cathleen was as white as Cade, as if her face would shatter if she spoke.

凯瑟琳跟凯德一样苍白，仿佛一说话她的脸就会破裂似的。


If you shatter the fishbowl so that everything is possible, you don't have freedom, you have paralysis.

如果你想让一切变得有可能而把鱼缸打破，你得到的不是自由，而是瘫痪。


The dropped bottle of beer caused an initial crack, but a woman walking over the broken glass in stiletto heels reportedly caused the pane to shatter further.

最初一名游客掉落的啤酒瓶在一块玻璃上砸出裂纹，随后一名穿着细高跟鞋的女子通过有裂纹的玻璃后，导致玻璃裂缝进一步扩大。