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

• 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。
• 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。
• He broached a barrel of cider.
  他钻孔开了一桶苹果酒。
• She brought her breast pump on the airplane every time, but never broached the subject with her colleagues.
  她每次都会带着吸奶器坐飞机，但却从未跟同事提到自己的情况。
• 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 said Mr Thain never broached the subject of his own future in the merger discussions.
  他说，塞恩在合并谈判时，从没提到有关他自己前途的话题。
• Ironically, the EU broached the talks as a way of protecting itself against the trade-diverting effects of the now moribund US-Korea deal.
  具有讽刺意味的是，欧盟之所以启动这些谈判，是因为它想以此来保护自己，免受如今停滞不前的美韩协定可能带来的贸易转移影响。
• 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。
• 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。
• The president returned from the Caribbean on December 16 and broached his plan at his press conference next day.
  总统在12月16日从加勒比海归来，翌日便在记者招待会上说明了他的计划。