3PHRASE 破产 If a company or person goes broke, they lose money and are unable to continue in business or to pay their debts. 破产 [informal, business]
Balton went broke twice in his career.
巴尔顿一生中经历了两次破产。
4PHRASE 孤注一掷 If you go for broke, you take the most extreme or risky of the possible courses of action in order to try and achieve success. 孤注一掷 [informal]
It was a sharp disagreement about whether to go for broke or whether to compromise.
VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be身無分文▸➤go (= go bankrupt)破產◇The company went broke last year.這家公司去年倒閉了。ADVERB➤completely, flat (informal) , totally (especially NAmE) 徹底破產➤stone, stony (BrE, bothinformal) 一分錢都沒有◇I'm stony / stone broke at the moment.我現在一分錢都沒有。➤nearly幾乎身無分文