The South was ready to secede -- leave and break up the Union of states.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

For example, in terms of the atomic theory of matter, at the time at the turn of the Century, the understanding was that atoms were the most basic constituent of matter, meaning you couldn't break atoms up into anything smaller - that was it, you're done.

例如在原子理论中,在19，20世纪之交的时候,人们认为原子是,组成物质的最基本粒子,也就是说你不能,把原子再分割了,就这样了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

They break up this sort of urban-ness of the city.

它们打破了城市的某种城市化的东西。

讲述伦敦的生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

After months of growing tension, the head of the company sent three hundred private security officers to break up the strike and protect non-union workers.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

or at least one mechanism, I shouldn't say -- the only one-- one mechanism for doing that is going to be to add functions is that it's going to provide both of these things, so the first thing it's going to do is, it's going to let us break up into modules.

我们处理这些的机制--至少一种机制,我不会说只有一种,一种机制是在我们的语言中增加函数,函数的关键是它要提供分解和抽象,所以第一件要做的事，就是将代码分解为模块。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Extra care is needed not to break up the twisted, strange-looking roots;

VOA: special.2009.04.07

You know, one famous tactic is--if you have an infantry force coming forward, you send tanks in it to break up the line of the infantry, so that you can defeat the infantry in that way.

最有名的战术是,如果有敌方步兵逼近,你把坦克派过去,破坏他们的步兵阵型,以这种策略对付步兵

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Some experts think Scott blamed himself for the break-up.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Sometimes the guardians intervene and break up lion-hunters.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Country music news headlines included the break-up of Brooks and Dunn after 20 years performing as a duo.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

Security forces fired tear gas to break up the pro-Zelaya marchers, who are also accused of vandalizing buildings in the country's capital overnight.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Bosnia is a multiethnic country still recovering from the war that accompanied the break-up of Yugoslavia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The U.N.Tribunal in The Hague wants Radovan Karadzic to face 11 charges Monday, including involvement in Europe's worst massacre since World War II in Bosnia-Herzegovina,during the violent break-up of Yugoslavia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

From its new regional bureau in Yaounde, Interpol is moving to break-up the syndicates behind this organized crime by working with law enforcement officials in Cameroon,Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon as well as officials from the other countries it covers: Central African Republic, Chad,Congo,Sao Tome and Principe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09