大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 collapse


释义：

collapse v. 倒塌，塌下；崩溃，瓦解；突然倒下，昏倒；瘫倒；突然贬值，暴跌；萎陷，瘪掉；折叠
n. 倒塌，塌陷；突然失败，崩溃；病倒，垮掉；突然贬值，暴跌
[ 复数 collapses 第三人称单数 collapses 现在分词 collapsing 过去式 collapsed 过去分词 collapsed ]


例句：



The system is in imminent danger of collapse.

这个体制面临着崩溃的危险。



The bridge is liable to collapse at any moment.

那座桥随时可能坍塌。



Their economy is teetering on the brink of collapse.

他们的经济正摇摆于崩溃的边缘。



A few days after his collapse he was sitting up in bed.

他病倒后过了几天就在床上起身坐着了。



The walls were strengthened to protect them from collapse.

围墙已加固以防倒塌。



The governor called for an inquiry into the motorway's collapse.

州长要求对高速公路的坍塌进行调查。



Do they realize we are racing toward complete economic collapse?

他们是否意识到我们正迅速走向彻底的经济崩溃？



The medical system is facing collapse because of an exodus of doctors.

由于医生大批离去，该医疗体系正面临崩溃。



It was also felt that the collapse of the system opened up new possibilities.

也感觉到制度的崩溃提供了新的可能。



The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented.

除非实施影响深远的改革，否则经济就有崩溃的危险。



The article predicates that the market collapse was caused by weakness of the dollar.

这篇文章声言，市场的崩溃是美元疲软造成的。



The earthquake was the occasion of the building's collapse.

地震是建筑物倒塌的起因。



This works in both directions: beggars become kings, palaces collapse into shelters.

这是双向的：乞丐变成了国王，宫殿坍塌成了避难所。



During a 1995 roof collapse, a fire fighter named Donald Herbert was left brain damaged.

在1995年的一次屋顶坍塌事故中，消防员唐纳德·赫伯特的左脑受损。



Today, the European Union is creating a $580 billion fund to ward off sovereign collapse.

今天，欧盟正在创建一个5800亿美元的基金，以防止主权国家崩溃。



Larger and larger villages became possible, but this also made the system vulnerable to collapse.

可能会出现（规模）越来越大的村庄，但这也使得这一系统容易崩溃。



Once again people began to argue whether Notre Dame Cathedral was going to collapse even without the fire.

人们又开始争论巴黎圣母院是否会在没有大火的情况下倒塌。



An expectable aberration in the climatic regime may have been enough to cause the collapse of the village.

气候系统中一个可预期的异常可能足以导致这个村庄的崩溃。



It is all an attitude, and one day the attitude will become a weird cramp, a pain, and then it will collapse.

它完全是一种态度，某天这种态度将变成一种奇怪的痉挛，一种痛苦，然后这种态度会倒塌。



Without this muscular action, inhaling is like sucking air out of a balloon—the narrow passages tend to collapse.

如果没有这种肌肉运动，吸气就像从气球里吸出空气一样——狭窄的通道往往会坍塌。



The second was the earthquake that hit China's Sichuan Province in 2008, causing the collapse of poorly constructed buildings.

第二次是2008年发生在中国四川省的地震，那次地震导致一些劣质建筑倒塌。