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

• Norma picked up the broom and began sweeping.
  诺尔玛拿起扫帚开始扫了起来。
• I can't sweep without a broom.
  没有扫帚我无法扫。
• Flying to the roof on a broom.
  骑着扫帚飞到了屋顶。
• I kept on shoveling and sweeping with a spade and broom.
  我手里拿着铁锨和扫帚不停地铲啊，扫啊。
• As a rule, where the broom does not reach the dust will not vanish of itself.
  扫帚不到，灰尘照例不会自己跑掉。
• 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。
• Then I'm lucky I got me a broom.
  那么我就走运了我拿了把扫把。
• Oh, I broke the head of the broom yesterday at work.
  啊，昨天上班的时候把扫把头弄断了。
• She sweeps the room with a broom.
  她拿着扫帚打扫房间。
• We calmed down and then we cleaned the room with a broom, a mop and a bucket.
  我们冷静下来，然后我们用一支扫把、一支拖把和一只水桶来打扫房间。