| 词汇 | collapsing |
| 释义 | collapsing present participle ofcollapse collapse verb uk /kəˈlæps/ us /kəˈlæps/ collapseverb (FALL)B2[ I ] to fall down suddenly because of pressure or having no strength or support: （由于压力、无力或缺乏支持而）倒塌，坍塌;崩溃，垮掉 Thousands of buildings collapsed in the earthquake.数以千计的建筑物在地震中倒塌了。 The chair collapsed under her weight.椅子承受不了她的重量散架了。 figurativeHe thought his whole world had collapsed when his wife died.妻子去世后他觉得自己的整个世界都坍塌了。 to go down onto the ground suddenly fallShe slipped and fell. dropSeveral apples dropped from the tree. collapseSeveral buildings collapsed in the earthquake. crumpleHe fainted and crumpled into a heap on the floor. tumbleA huge rock tumbled down the mountain. plungeFour of the mountaineers plunged to their deaths when their ropes broke. B2[ I ] If someone collapses, they fall down because of being sick or weak: （因疾病或虚弱而）倒下，昏倒 He collapsed and died of a heart attack.他心脏病发作，倒地而亡。 [ I or T ] to fold something into a smaller shape, usually so it can be stored, or (especially of furniture) to fold in this way: （使）折叠（尤指家具） All chairs collapse for easy storage.所有的椅子折叠起来以方便存放。 It looks as if the whole political edifice of the country is about to collapse.看来整个国家的政治局势是风雨飘摇、大厦将倾。 I should think you're about ready to collapse after all that walking.走了那么远的路，我应该想到你要累垮了。 The building's foundations are rather shaky, and it could collapse at any time.这座建筑的地基很不稳固，随时可能会倒塌。 At the end of the race his legs gave out and he collapsed on the ground.到比赛终点时，他腿一软倒在了地上。 The woman staggered and collapsed in a heap.那个女人踉跄倒地，蜷作一团。 Falling and dropping ass balance collapse under someone's/something's weight collapse/fall in a heapidiom cropper crumple drop drop like fliesidiom faceplant fly knock someone over let goidiom mic drop nosedive overbalance parachutist plunge shower thump wayside You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Losing consciousness Making things more or less smooth or straight collapseverb (FAIL)C2[ I ] (of people and business) to suddenly be unable to continue or work correctly: （人或企业）崩溃，垮掉，失败 Lots of people lost their jobs when the property market collapsed.房地产市场崩溃后，许多人丢了工作。 Talks between management and unions have collapsed.劳资谈判彻底破裂。 Share prices collapsed (= became lower suddenly) after news of poor trading.贸易不景气的消息传出后股价暴跌。 to stop operating permanently close downWith sales down, the company closed one factory down and reduced the workforce at another. closeMany of the shops in the High Street have closed recently. shut downThe bookshop is shutting down after 25 years of business. shutUKSeveral of the bank's local branches are shutting. shut up shopUKThe seaside businesses all shut up shop during the winter. go/put out of businessMy favourite ice cream shop went out of business last summer. The company is staggering under a $15 million debt and will almost certainly collapse by the end of the year.公司背负着1500万美元的债务，举步维艰，年底前几乎肯定要倒闭。 Things have gone badly for him since his business collapsed.他的公司倒闭后，他的生活变得一团糟。 All charges against them were withdrawn after the prosecution's case collapsed.原告诉讼被驳回，所以对他们的指控都撤销了。 The talks have collapsed and both sides have resorted to brinkmanship.谈判失败了，双方都采用了边缘政策。 She'd invested extensively in stocks and got her fingers burned when the market collapsed.她在股市上大量投资，结果股市崩溃损失惨重。 Failing and doing badly abjectly at-risk backbencher balls (something) up be on your beam endsidiom beam blow (someone/something) up bomb egg flog flog a dead horseidiom flop flub flunk out mess running on emptyidiom sclerotic screw screw (something) up the rot sets inidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Success & failure in business Examples of collapsingcollapsing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The reconstruction was orchestrated through the collapsing of the sites' post-war present and its desired future on to its excavated and reimagined ancient past. Why was this most anti-capitalist of bands so quick to succumb to industry demographics and their attendant collapsing of genre into race? This topological idea translates to the algebraic notion of a collapsing scheme, which will be defined shortly. They sustained a tension between abstractions and all-tootangible consequences, and they brought together human and nonhuman without collapsing the distinction. A detonation wave has traveled to the right and it is in the process of collapsing the liner, which is shown in the figure. And in both countries, corruption cases and avoidable disasters (like collapsing buildings) regularly remind the middle classes of the social failings of unaccountable capitalism. The quotient flow is obtained by collapsing each connected component of the chain-recurrent set to a distinct point. These results, in conjunction with the short-term learning results, suggest that collapsing across experiments is warranted and that no problematic differences between experiments exist. However, after two years police support began to falter, and by mid-1943 many police forces were at collapsing point. Minimal entropy and collapsing with curvature bounded from below. Typically, collapsing from a free arc will generate a long band, and we will tacitly replace it by a single band. What collapsing and grouping should be made may well vary according to what is being studied. No significant difference in lexical productivity was found between girls and boys collapsing ages (t(22) 1 for types and for tokens). To determine the order, we introduce concepts of risks of collapsing a stack by picking, and the ease of manipulator operations. Theatrical themes emerge again, too: a failing marriage being 'a drama whose theatre was the collapsing household' (p. 215). These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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