be broke

基本解释

You end up dropping out of high school all the while unhappy with this path that will leave you destined to be broke or end up in jail.
你读完高中就辍学了，一直对这条路感到不开心，这会导致你命中住地地成为破坏者或者在监狱终此一生。
And the state controller warned today that California could be broke by April.
加州会计长今天警告说，加州可能在今年四月前破产。

Then,the Crimean War broke out. I felt that sad for him that there had to be a war.
So,for example,now if you want to go from-- say you're in Lyon and you want to go to Bordeaux, you're going to be broke.
假如,你想从--,假如你想从里昂去波尔多,你就打破了常规
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Now, you know, when we've got our deterministic hats on, we think to ourselves, "There's got to be some underlying causal explanation, some feature about the break-down atoms that explains why they broke down and that was missing from the non-break-down atoms that explains why they don't break down.
现在,你知道,当我们用决定论的观点去分析这个问题时,我们自己寻思着,这背后一定有某种具有,因果关系的解释,某种关于分裂原子的特性,能解释为什么它们分裂了,而由于这种特性不存在于未分裂的原子,因而解释了它们为什么不能分裂
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If interest rates hit 15%, inflation runs at 18% and unemployment is 20%, we might not be broke, but it will hurt.
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W. Bush telling us that Medicare would be broke in 2002.
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