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

• She broached the idea with her family, and it fell flat.
  她和家人说了这个想法，不过没有得到响应。
• On the basis of this tasting, most of these 2004 red Bordeaux should be at their best from about 2011 or 2012 for 10 years or more, although some of the Margaux, graves and Pomerol could be broached sooner.
  依据上述品酒结果，这些2004年酿造的红葡萄酒多数应该最早从2011年或2012年推出10年期或更久的，但玛尔戈、格拉夫和pomerol出产的一些葡萄酒可能会更快推出。
• She brought her breast pump on the airplane every time, but never broached the subject with her colleagues.
  她每次都会带着吸奶器坐飞机，但却从未跟同事提到自己的情况。
• 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。
• I haven't broached the subject of salaries yet.
  我还没有开始讨论工资这个主题。
• 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。
• When a pencil is sharpened, the pencil needs to be contacted with the cutting edge and broached back and forth along the guiding groove.
  削笔时只要将笔贴在刀刃上，沿导向槽往复拉削即可。
• 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。
• 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。
• Ironically, the EU broached the talks as a way of protecting itself against the trade-diverting effects of the now moribund US-Korea deal.
  具有讽刺意味的是，欧盟之所以启动这些谈判，是因为它想以此来保护自己，免受如今停滞不前的美韩协定可能带来的贸易转移影响。