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（To）break the news
宣布消息；公布消息
To make something known.
To reveal information, often that which is bad or upsetting.
• Who's going to break the news to her?
由谁来把这事告诉她呢？
• I'm sorry to be the one to break the news to you.
很抱歉要由我来告诉你这个消息。
• Who is going to break the news of her husband's accident?
谁来说出她丈夫出事的消息呢？
• Then Felicity broke the news that she was leaving me.
之后菲丽西提说出了她要离开我的消息。
• Samantha and Michael are getting married, they haven't yet broken the news to their parents.
萨曼莎和迈克尔要结婚了，他们还没有把这个消息告诉父母。
• You'd better break the news to your father carefully. After all,you don't want him to have a heart attack!
你最好小心地把这个消息告诉你父亲。 毕竟，你不想让他心脏病发作吧！
after all
毕竟
a heart attack
心脏病
• Your mother is going to be furious if she learns of our engagement from someone else—you have to break the news to her first!
如果你母亲从别人那里得知我们订婚的消息，她会大发雷霆的——你得先把这个消息告诉她！
furious /ˈfjʊəriəs/
adj. 狂怒的；暴怒的
engagement /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt/
n. 订婚
