1. 挣脱；逃脱
If you break away from someone who is trying to hold you or catch you, you free yourself and run away.
2. 摆脱（束缚或控制）
If you break away from something or someone that restricts you or controls you, you succeed in freeing yourself from them.
1. break off (a piece from a whole)
e.g. Her tooth chipped
Synonym: chipchip offcome offbreak off
2. move away or escape suddenly
e.g. The horses broke from the stable
Three inmates broke jail
Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
3. flee
take to one's heels
cut and run
e.g. If you see this man, run!
The burglars escaped before the police showed up
Synonym: scatrunscarperturn taillamrun awayhightail itbunkhead for the hillstake to the woodsescapefly the coop
4. withdraw from an organization or communion
e.g. After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away
5. interrupt a continued activity
e.g. She had broken with the traditional patterns
Synonym: break