1. Her speech was punctuated by bursts of applause. 她的讲演不时被阵阵掌声打断。
2. If the pipe bursts it could flood the whole house. 要是水管破裂整座房子就会灌满水。
3. This utterance of his was greeted with bursts of uproarious laughter. 他的讲话引起阵阵哄然大笑。
4. These bursts are similar to what we see when volcanoes erupt on Earth. 这些爆发与我们在地球上火山喷发时看到的相似。
5. It would seem sensible to seek the source of these in the universe's most conspicuous energy factories: quasars and gamma-ray bursts billions of light-years away from Earth. 在宇宙中最引人注目的能量工厂——距离地球数十亿光年的类星体和伽马射线爆发——中寻找这些物质的来源似乎是明智的。