broom

英 [bruːm]

美 [bruːm]

n. 扫把; 扫帚; 金雀花(野生，开小黄花)

复数：brooms　

Collins.1 / BNC.9809 / COCA.9418

习惯用语

a new broom

新就职者；（尤指）刚上任的新官
a person who has just started to work for an organization, department, etc., especially in a senior job, and who is likely to make a lot of changes
Well, you know what they say. A new broom sweeps clean.
唉，你知道他们说什么。新官上任三把火。

扫帚
Abroomis a kind of brush with a long handle. You use a broom for sweeping the floor.
金雀花（一种野生灌木，开许多黄色小花）
Broomis a wild bush with a lot of tiny yellow flowers.

noun

a cleaning implement for sweeping
common Old World heath represented by many varieties
Synonym:heatherlingScots heatherCalluna vulgaris
any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers

verb

finish with a broom
sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
1. Sweep the crumbs off the table
2. Sweep under the bed
Synonym:sweep

They find a broom in the room.
他们在房间里发现了一个扫帚。
A broom and dustpan.
扫帚和簸箕。
He trod on the head of the broom and the handles flew up and hit him in the face.
他一脚踩着扫帚头，扫帚柄飞快地翘了起来，打在他的脸上。
Norma picked up the broom and began sweeping.
诺尔玛拿起扫帚开始扫了起来。
The new director has changed many of the Department rules. a new broom sweeps clean.
新主任更改了这个部的很多规定。真是新官上任三把火！
The first time I rode a broom.
我第一次骑飞天帚的情形。
I can't sweep without a broom.
没有扫帚我无法扫。
Oh, I broke the head of the broom yesterday at work.
啊，昨天上班的时候把扫把头弄断了。
She broke the broom handle over her knee with a loud snap.
喀嚓一声，她用膝盖折断了扫帚柄。
Use a broom to sweep the leaves from the path!
用扫帚把路上的东西扫干净！