break the wheel

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词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To end a pattern of oppression, inequality, injustice, or abuse.

    习语

    The head of one of Canada's largest unions says it's time to break the wheel and change the way businesses are operated.

  2. 2.

    To instigate or enact a major change; to revolutionize; to shake up.

    习语

    Cassandra a woman in her late 60’s was a hairdresser and owner of her own beauty salon in the UK. However, she felt like she was working long hours and never had time for herself. She describes coming to Spain as a way to ‘break the wheel’ and dedicating time to what she loves, which involves a variety of sports, socializing, and spending time with her mother (Interview March 31st 2019).

    Polar codes break the wheel in channel coding area with its unconventional perspective of code construction than that of the traditional codes and become a youngest contender in the 5G race.

    This is an example of Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' breaking the wheel of empiricism and rationalism, inaugurating a new form of transcendental regulation that is to say weak correlationism.

词源

Presumably inspired by a scene in the episode "Hardhome" (2015) of Game of Thrones, in which Daenerys Targaryen, reflecting on her plan to reclaim the Iron Throne, vows to "break the wheel" of oppression and war.

来源：wiktionary