名词

1. 违反，破坏（条约、法律或承诺）
If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.

2. （对条约、法律或承诺的）违反，破坏
A breach of an agreement, a law, or a promise is an act of breaking it.

3. （关系的）裂痕，破裂
A breach in a relationship is a serious disagreement which often results in the relationship ending.

4. 突破；攻破；给…造成缺口
If someone or something breaches a barrier, they make an opening in it, usually leaving it weakened or destroyed.

5. 突破，攻破（防卫）
If you breach someone's security or their defences, you manage to get through and attack an area that is heavily guarded and protected.

6. 临时代替；临时顶替
If you step into the breach, you do a job or task which someone else was supposed to do or has done in the past, because they are suddenly unable to do it.

1. a failure to perform some promised act or obligation

2. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

e.g. they hoped to avoid a break in relations

Synonym: rupturebreakseveranceriftfalling out

3. an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)