broken / damaged / worn out / lousy / rotten / to break, split or cleave / to get rid of / to destroy / to break with / to defeat / to capture (a city etc) / to expose the truth of

to break; to smash

destruction / damage / to wreck / to break / to destroy

to go bankrupt / to become impoverished / bankruptcy

to break through / to make a breakthrough / to surmount (an obstacle) / (sports) to break through the opponent's defense

to break (a bond, constraint etc) / to explain / to unravel / to decipher / to decode / to crack (software)

to smash to pieces / to shatter

to be shattered / to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)

to eliminate / to do away with / to get rid of

to solve a criminal case

shabby

to burst; to rupture / (of a relationship etc) to break down

breach / gap / breakthrough point

to spend money

to destroy one's family

to hit the target / (fig.) to hit the nail on the head

tetanus (lockjaw)

(idiom) to see through the illusions of the material world (often a precursor to becoming a Buddhist monk or nun); to become disillusioned with human society

daybreak / dawn

(Internet slang) to have a simplistic view of sth (transcription of "too young, too simple" – English words spoken by Jiang Zemin 江澤民｜江泽民 in chastizing Hong Kong reporters in 2000)

to become damaged

to blow up / to demolish (using explosives) / dynamite / blast

Napoleon (name) / Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815

to solve or overcome (a difficult problem) / to beat (a video game)

to cut open / to rip / to streak across (lightning, meteor etc) / to pierce (scream, searchlight etc)

to brave the wind and the billows (idiom); to have high ambitions

to uncover (a criminal plot) / to break open and capture

worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged / (coll.) rubbish; junk

to penetrate / to see through

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815

to see through / disillusioned with / to reject (the world of mortals)

to defeat / to crush (in battle) / beaten / ruined / destroyed / in decline

to investigate (as detective) / to solve (crime) / to uncover (a plot) / to sniff out / to break in and analyze / detective work / to scout

to have an acrimonious falling-out / to shed all pretense of cordiality / to tear into each other

to lay bare in a few words / to expose with a word / to point out bluntly

broken / dilapidated

like a hot knife through butter (idiom) / with irresistible force

to puncture / to pierce / (fig.) to destroy (the facade concealing an unpleasant reality)

unprecedented / for the first time / never before / first ever

to puncture / to pierce

lit. head broken and blood flowing / fig. badly bruised

to lay bare (actual facts, secrets etc) / to reveal

to spend (money or time)

to decipher; to decode

bankrupt / to suffer financial loss

split seam / (fig.) flaw / weak point

to break the door down and enter (idiom)

to be scared out of one's wits / to scare stiff

scattered and smashed (idiom)

to turn tears into laughter (idiom); to turn grief into happiness

writing style in which the main subject is approached directly from the outset / opposite of 冒題｜冒题

ice breaker

to break / to shatter

to go to the bottom of things (idiom)

dash / Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)

solid; unbreakable / (fig.) irrefutable; incontrovertible; indisputable

lit. to ride the wind and crest the waves / to be ambitious and unafraid (idiom)

Destroy the Four Olds (campaign of the Cultural Revolution)

breakthrough / to overcome an obstacle quickly

(fig.) to be astounded

lit. the two halves of the broken mirror are rejoined (idiom) / fig. long-separated lovers are reunited; a broken relationship is restored

to tear / to rip

to set sail / to brave the waves

see 撕破臉｜撕破脸

tear apart

to burst or force open a door / to excommunicate sb (from the Roman Catholic Church) / to score a goal (in football, hockey etc)

to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate

tear or rupture / to have a tear (e.g. in one's clothes) / without restraint (e.g. of swearing)

to make a breakthrough / to break through / to breach (military)

family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned / destitute and homeless

to break into a smile / (of flowers) to open

to break ground / to start digging / to plough / to break through the ground (of seedling) / fig. the start of a building project

to uncover

dynamiter

to violate a religious precept / to smoke or drink after giving up

lit. a force to smash bamboo (idiom); fig. irresistible force

lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom)

broken mirror / fig. broken marriage / divorce

to make an exception

to read extensively and thoroughly / nonstandard pronunciation of a Chinese character, e.g. the reading [hao4] in 愛好｜爱好 rather than the usual [hao3]

Diablo (video game series)

see 一語中的｜一语中的

ground breaking ceremony

to expose / to reveal

see 石破天驚｜石破天惊

lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom) / fig. slow and inefficient

dilapidated wall / to break through a wall / (fig.) to break through / (biotechnology) to disrupt cell walls / cell disruption

(of a market index etc) to fall below (a given level) / to be injured or damaged as a result of a fall

to be scared out of one's wits

(of a rumor etc) to collapse (in the light of facts etc) / to be discredited

to break a promise

(of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64

to eliminate superstition (idiom)

lit. to smash a pot just because it has a crack (idiom) / fig. to give up altogether after a setback; to throw one's hands up in frustration and let it all go to hell

without destruction there can be no construction

(linguistics) (old) plosive; stop

lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling

lit. the story of the broken mirror of Princess Lechang 樂昌公主｜乐昌公主 (In the tale, the princess and her husband, fearing separation during the turbulence of war, broke a bronze mirror in half. They each kept one half as a token, with the promise to reunite by matching the pieces together. They were indeed separated, but eventually reunited, with the mirror playing a crucial role in their reunion.) (idiom) / fig. the reunion of separated lovers or the restoration of a relationship

nonstandard or corrupted form of a Chinese character

lit. smash bamboo, overturn water tank (idiom); fig. irresistible force