could break

基本解释

The Supreme Court could break that wave.
最高法院可能会打破这一局势。
Here was the iron link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break.
然而他和她之间却有着共同犯罪的铁链，不管他还是她都不能打破。
Lots of different things could break and cause this test to fail.
很多不同的东西能够中断并且导致测试失败。

He was sure the line was weak. He was sure he could break it.
As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.
只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。
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So, you could break even if you were very clever about it, and that's pretty neat.
所以如果你非常聪明,你就能做到“保本“,这听起来似乎很棒。
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You thought you could break up my marriage and move in, but you were wrong.
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