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

We were appalled personally that this topic was even broached by the individuals that started the thread, and other threads.
我们每个人都震惊于这个题目甚至是那些发帖的人从个人角度、以及从其他讨论帖提出来的。
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。
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。
It is quite a novelty to have the blinds up, and the shutters open; and they make themselves dismally comfortable over bottles of wine, which are freely broached as on a festival.
窗帘已经卷上，百叶窗已经拉开，这是件不同于前几天的新鲜事情。他们像过节一般尽情地喝着一瓶瓶的酒，以此消愁解忧。他们都很喜欢劝善戒恶。
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。
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。
The president returned from the Caribbean on December 16 and broached his plan at his press conference next day.
总统在12月16日从加勒比海归来，翌日便在记者招待会上说明了他的计划。
Anything from taking out the rubbish to a romantic weekend away is likely to be looked on more favourably if broached at the end of the working day.
从到垃圾到给你一个浪漫的周末之类的任何事，最可能成功在一周的工作结束的时候。
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。
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。