Breach

(noun.) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation.

(noun.) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification).

吉恩编辑

• France, Germany, Italy and Spain, were interposed, walls yet without a breach, between us and the plague. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This healed the breach between the two, never after reopened. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Time we were off, my dear sir; breach of promise trial-court is generally full in such cases. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It is then the interest of the enemies of this potentate to secure and publish this letter, so as to make a breach between his country and ours? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I have a right to complain of it as almost a breach of confidence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• And then he put it to me, whether it would not be a breach of professional confidence on his part to say more. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Coming in for Pocket-Breaches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And to have entered into the nature of diseases would only have added to his breaches of medical propriety. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Pocket-Breaches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• When he wrote of the _Social Contract_, he did so rather to excuse breaches of the covenant than to emphasize its necessity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Veneering's object is to let Pocket-Breaches know that his friend on his right (Podsnap) is a man of wealth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

校对:佩德罗