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

• He broached a barrel of cider.
  他钻孔开了一桶苹果酒。
• The cell surface barrier had been broached.
  细胞表面屏障被凿开。
• 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。
• I first broached the subject with him in a conversation in Washington in January.
  我一月份在华盛顿首次同他讨论了这个问题。
• He broached the subject to the stranger.
  他对陌生人提起那话题。
• None of the well-heeled guests invited to lob questions at Miss China during the New York training sessions had ever broached such a subject.
  纽约训练期间受邀前来盘问罗紫琳的名流嘉宾中，没有谁曾经提到这样一个话题。
• 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。
• 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。
• As the girls huddled around the makeshift table, Luyuan broached a familiar topic: back home over the holidays, her family had introduced her to a man.
  姑娘们围坐在这个简易餐桌前开始吃饭，这时，李芦媛提起了一个大家熟悉的话题：放假在家时，家里给她介绍了个对象。
• 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。