A broken line is not continuous but has gaps or spaces in it.
dotted
A broken blue line means the course of a waterless valley.
蓝色虚线代表无水流过的山谷走向。
You can use broken to describe a marriage that has ended in divorce, or a home in which the parents of the family are divorced, when you think this is a sad or bad thing.
She spoke for the first time about the traumas of a broken marriage.
她第一次说起婚姻破裂之痛。
If someone talks in broken English, for example, or in broken French, they speak slowly and make a lot of mistakes because they do not know the language very well.
Eric could only respond in broken English.
埃里克只能用蹩脚的英语应答。
Broken is the past participle of break.