词汇大师:break只是“破”吗？没这么简单。（3）

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谁也不想break up with somebody，那么就学着放松一下吧，让紧张的关系也放松一下。握得越近，伤得越重啊。

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OK, I didn't mean to break his heart.  Now, again, in a relationship, hopefully you'll never hear this, and you'll never have to do it, to break someone's heart. It means to disappoint somebody so much that they become so, so terribly sad, to break someone's heart.
And if someone says to you give me a break, now this is a really common expression. We hear it a lot. Give me a break. If somebody says something to you that's absolutely ridiculous, you say 'Give me a break.' It means stop talking such nonsense. Give me a break. That's impossible, that never happened. Give me a break. That is really common.
I would say that anybody who comes to America is probably going to hear 'Give me a break' within the first hour. It's pretty popular. And if someone says that to you, that means they don't believe you.
So then she goes on to say 'He's just so rude. I know I should be breaking out the champagne.' Champagne is such an event. We don't just say to 'take out' the champagne. We say to break out the champagne. That's really a big celebration. So on New Year's Eve everyone breaks out the Champagne.
So she says 'I know I should be breaking out the Champagne, now that I broke it off.' So when you break it off, 'it' means the relationship. I broke off the relationship, I broke it off. And then she says 'But I'm feeling guilty and my voice breaks every time I talk about it.' So when your voice breaks, it starts to shake and you don't usually get to finish the last syllable of your word because your voice is breaking. And then she says, of course. Did I do the right thing? Well, yes, definitely. As you broke it down, I would say, yes, you did the right thing in breaking it off or breaking up with this person.
There are many other expressions using break. If you're sick, your fever can break, too, by the way. We hope your fever breaks. If you ever have a fever, you want the fever to break. It just means it comes down. To take a break, that's another thing you'll hear probably, certainly in the first hour of working in the United States.