broken

英 ['brəʊk(ə)n] 美['brokən]

broken (adj.): late 14c., past participle adjective from break (v.). Broken record in reference to someone continually repeating the same thing is from 1944, in reference to scratches on records that cause the needle to jump back and repeat.
When Britain's Minister of State, Selwyn Lloyd[,] became bored with a speech by Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in UN debate, he borrowed a Dizzy Gillespie bebop expression and commented: "Dig that broken record." While most translators pondered the meaning, a man who takes English and puts it into Chinese gave this translation: "Recover the phonograph record which you have discarded." ["Jet," Oct. 15, 1953]

1. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger at the broken places.: 生活总是让我们遍体鳞伤，但到后来，那些受伤的地方会变得更坚强。

3. Everything breakable had been broken and scattered chaotically about the room.: 房间里能打碎的东西都打碎了，一片狼藉。

4. They've torn down wooden fences and broken branches off trees.: 他们拆掉了木栅栏，并砍去了一些树枝。