broom

英 [bruːm]

美 [bruːm]

n.  扫把; 扫帚; 金雀花(野生，开小黄花)

复数：brooms　

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Collins.1 / BNC.9809 / COCA.9418

习惯用语

n.

a new broom
• 新就职者；（尤指）刚上任的新官
  a person who has just started to work for an organization, department, etc., especially in a senior job, and who is likely to make a lot of changes
• Well, you know what they say. A new broom sweeps clean.
  唉，你知道他们说什么。新官上任三把火。

柯林斯词典

• 扫帚
  Abroomis a kind of brush with a long handle. You use a broom for sweeping the floor.
• 金雀花（一种野生灌木，开许多黄色小花）
  Broomis a wild bush with a lot of tiny yellow flowers.

英英释义

noun

• a cleaning implement for sweeping
• common Old World heath represented by many varieties
  Synonym:heatherlingScots heatherCalluna vulgaris
• any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers

verb

• finish with a broom
• sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
  1. Sweep the crumbs off the table
  2. Sweep under the bed
  Synonym:sweep

双语例句

• I broke a glass! Please get me the broom.
  我打碎了一个玻璃杯，请把扫帚递给我。
• Then I'm lucky I got me a broom.
  那么我就走运了我拿了把扫把。
• And I like you with this broom in your hand.
  我也喜欢你手里拿着这把扫帚。
• And then he realized that his broom was completely out of his control.
  接着他发现他的飞天扫帚完全不受控制了。
• The new director has changed many of the Department rules. a new broom sweeps clean.
  新主任更改了这个部的很多规定。真是新官上任三把火！
• The wizard chanted a spell and the cat turned into a broom.
  巫师念了一句咒语，把小猫变成了扫帚。
• He trod on the head of the broom and the handles flew up and hit him in the face.
  他一脚踩着扫帚头，扫帚柄飞快地翘了起来，打在他的脸上。
• Use a broom to sweep the leaves from the path!
  用扫帚把路上的东西扫干净！
• Get a broom and sweep up that glass will you?
  拿扫帚把那些玻璃清扫干净好吗？
• The first time I rode a broom.
  我第一次骑飞天帚的情形。