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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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

• 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。
• She broke the broom handle over her knee with a loud snap.
  喀嚓一声，她用膝盖折断了扫帚柄。
• We need a broom to clean up the mess left when I knocked over the ashtray.
  我打翻了烟灰缸，所以我们需要个笤帚把那儿的脏东西清理一下。
• And I like you with this broom in your hand.
  我也喜欢你手里拿着这把扫帚。
• The company seemed set to make a fresh start under a new broom.
  公司似乎准备在新任领导的带领下开创新局面。
• So we had to keep a distance to touch him with a broom.
  为了和他交流，我和老公只能和他保持一段距离，用笤帚抚摸他。
• Then I'm lucky I got me a broom.
  那么我就走运了我拿了把扫把。
• I can't sweep without a broom.
  没有扫帚我无法扫。
• She will be holding a broom, mop, and so on mezzanine floor cleaning tool.
  于是她便拿着扫把、拖把等打扫工具上了阁楼。
• 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。