be broke

基本解释

You end up dropping out of high school all the while unhappy with this path that will leave you destined to be broke or end up in jail.
你讀完高中就輟學了，一直對這條路感到不開心，這會導致你命中住地地成爲破壞者或者在監獄終此一生。
And the state controller warned today that California could be broke by April.
加州會計長今天警告說，加州可能在今年四月前破産。

Then,the Crimean War broke out. I felt that sad for him that there had to be a war.
So,for example,now if you want to go from-- say you're in Lyon and you want to go to Bordeaux, you're going to be broke.
假如,你想從--,假如你想從裡昂去波爾多,你就打破了常槼
耶魯公開課 - 1871年後的法國課程節選
Now, you know, when we've got our deterministic hats on, we think to ourselves, "There's got to be some underlying causal explanation, some feature about the break-down atoms that explains why they broke down and that was missing from the non-break-down atoms that explains why they don't break down.
現在,你知道,儅我們用決定論的觀點去分析這個問題時,我們自己尋思著,這背後一定有某種具有,因果關系的解釋,某種關於分裂原子的特性,能解釋爲什麽它們分裂了,而由於這種特性不存在於未分裂的原子,因而解釋了它們爲什麽不能分裂
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選

If interest rates hit 15%, inflation runs at 18% and unemployment is 20%, we might not be broke, but it will hurt.
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W. Bush telling us that Medicare would be broke in 2002.
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