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

We need a broom to clean up the mess left when I knocked over the ashtray.
我打翻了烟灰缸，所以我们需要个笤帚把那儿的脏东西清理一下。
The first time I rode a broom.
我第一次骑飞天帚的情形。
As a rule, where the broom does not reach the dust will not vanish of itself.
扫帚不到，灰尘照例不会自己跑掉。
Flying to the roof on a broom.
骑着扫帚飞到了屋顶。
They find a broom in the room.
他们在房间里发现了一个扫帚。
I kept on shoveling and sweeping with a spade and broom.
我手里拿着铁锨和扫帚不停地铲啊，扫啊。
Then I'm lucky I got me a broom.
那么我就走运了我拿了把扫把。
A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。
She sweeps the room with a broom.
她拿着扫帚打扫房间。
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。