broached

英 [brəʊtʃt]

美 [broʊtʃt]

v.  开始谈论，引入(尤指令人尴尬或有异议的话题)
broach的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 提出，引入（尤指敏感话题）
  When youbroacha subject, especially a sensitive one, you mention it in order to start a discussion on it.
  1. Eventually I broached the subject of her early life.
     最后我提到了关于她的早年生活的话题。

英英释义

adj

• of a cask or barrel
  1. the cask was set abroach
  Synonym:abroach

双语例句

• As the girls huddled around the makeshift table, Luyuan broached a familiar topic: back home over the holidays, her family had introduced her to a man.
  姑娘们围坐在这个简易餐桌前开始吃饭，这时，李芦媛提起了一个大家熟悉的话题：放假在家时，家里给她介绍了个对象。
• She felt certain that they were continuing the subject already broached, but their voices were so low that she could not catch the words.
  她敢肯定她们还在继续谈论刚才她们已经开始了的话题，不过她们谈话的声音太小，她听不清楚。
• He broached the subject to the stranger.
  他对陌生人提起那话题。
• None of the well-heeled guests invited to lob questions at Miss China during the New York training sessions had ever broached such a subject.
  纽约训练期间受邀前来盘问罗紫琳的名流嘉宾中，没有谁曾经提到这样一个话题。
• She broached the idea with her family, and it fell flat.
  她和家人说了这个想法，不过没有得到响应。
• When a pencil is sharpened, the pencil needs to be contacted with the cutting edge and broached back and forth along the guiding groove.
  削笔时只要将笔贴在刀刃上，沿导向槽往复拉削即可。
• I haven't broached the subject of salaries yet.
  我还没有开始讨论工资这个主题。
• I'M a little embarrassed, Liu Jing leaned in closer and lowered her voice, revealing for the first time a hint of discomfort since the topic of credit cards had been broached.
  我有点不好意思，刘静靠在柜台上放低声音说，自信用卡问题被提出以来第一次暗示不适。
• It is quite a novelty to have the blinds up, and the shutters open; and they make themselves dismally comfortable over bottles of wine, which are freely broached as on a festival.
  窗帘已经卷上，百叶窗已经拉开，这是件不同于前几天的新鲜事情。他们像过节一般尽情地喝着一瓶瓶的酒，以此消愁解忧。他们都很喜欢劝善戒恶。
• He broached a barrel of cider.
  他钻孔开了一桶苹果酒。