clean break

基本解释

For Obama to succeed, they argued, the country needed to see his Inauguration as a clean break, a new sunrise.
为了奥巴马的顺利，他们坚持，全国人民需要把他的就职典礼视为一个全新的突破，旭日的升起。
The 1688 political settlement made such a clean break that it was, according to one observer, like “melting [the Government] down and make it all new”.
1688年政治风波的平息创造了一个彻底的局面。一位评论员称，“就好像瓦解了政府，并使其脱胎换骨，重获新生。
Some saw this as a reference to allegations that a few of MAN’s employees had paid bribes to win contracts, and that by leaving Mr Samuelsson would allow a clean break with the past.
一些人认为，哈坎的辞职涉及到了一些指控，这些指控透露少部分男子汉公司的雇员曾经通过行贿来争取合同，而萨缪尔森的离开可以使得公司和从前有个彻底的了结。

Sadly, many people are just too dependent on them to make a clean break.
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What is better for our health, a clean break or a tether back to the office?
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After all, GM supposedly made a clean break with its past when it filed for bankruptcy in June 2009.
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