break the ice

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɹeɪk ði ˈaɪs/    美 /ˈbɹeɪk ði ˈaɪs/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To start to get to know people to avoid social awkwardness and formality. idiomatic
    — Including a few fun details in large group introductions can be a great way to break the ice.
  2. To introduce a conversation. idiomatic
    — If it be so ſir, that you are the man Muſt ſteed us all, and me amongſt the reſt: And if you breake the ice and do this ſeeke, Atchieve the elder: ſet the yonger free, For our acceſſe, whose hap ſhall be to have her, will not so graceleſſe be, to be ingrate.
  3. To surmount initial difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning. idiomatic
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, the, ice.

词形变化

breaks the ice present,singular,third-person breaking the ice participle,present broke the ice past broken the ice participle,past

词源

By application of the metaphor that strangers are socially separated by ice.
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