breaking point

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Constant use had fretted the sandal strap to the breaking point.
凉鞋由于经常穿，鞋带快磨断了。
But if we don’t help, our security relationship with Japan will be stretched to the breaking point.
但如果我们不提供帮助，我们与日本的安全关系将会被推到破裂的边缘。
The question now is whether some sort of breaking point might soon be reached.
现在的问题在于，某种类型的突破是否可以达成。

President Obama said the current system has led the country to a breaking point, imposing hardships on middle-class Americans who struggle to pay for health care, who are unable to obtain it.
Death is basically just the breaking down of the body, on the physicalist point of view, so that it no longer functions properly.
死亡从根本上说就是我们肉体的损坏,在物理主义看来,肉体再也不能正常工作了
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It's all seen from her point of view and at a distance And then somebody is knocking at the door and breaking in, and that's Kane And then there's a close-up of Kane leaning over the bed ? Right?
都是从苏珊的角度来拍的,镜头比较远,先是有人敲门,那人闯了进来，是凯恩,然后有个对凯恩,俯在床头的特写,对么？
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But their connection to the ultimate source of authority has been stretched to the breaking point.
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If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.