及物动词
1. The weight of snow collapsed the roof.
积雪的重压使屋顶倒塌了。
不及物动词
1. If you work too hard, your health may collapse.
如果你工作太累的话，你可能病倒。
2. This table collapses so you can store it easily when you're not using it.
这种桌子可以折叠，不用时很容易收藏。
3. The old man collapsed in the street.
老人倒在了大街上。
名词
1. The collapse of the building caused no casualties.
建筑倒塌没有造成伤亡。
1. 倒塌;塌下
If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
e.g. A section of the Bay Bridge had collapsed...
海湾大桥有一段垮塌了。
e.g. The roof collapsed in a roar of rock and rubble...
屋顶轰隆一声塌了下来，碎石瓦砾落了一地。
2. (体系或机构)崩溃，瓦解，突然失败
If something, for example a system or institution, collapses, it fails or comes to an end completely and suddenly.
e.g. His business empire collapsed under a massive burden of debt...
他的商业帝国无力承担沉重的债务负担而垮掉了。
e.g. This system has collapsed in most countries where it ruled...
这一体系在其占统治地位的大多数国家都失败了。
3. (因生病或虚弱)突然倒下，昏倒
If you collapse, you suddenly faint or fall down because you are very ill or weak.
e.g. He collapsed following a vigorous exercise session at his home...
在家剧烈运动了一阵后他突然昏倒了。
e.g. It's commonplace to see people collapsing from hunger in the streets.
在街上看见有人饿晕是很平常的事。
4. (因精疲力竭而)突然坐下(或倒下)
If you collapse onto something, you sit or lie down suddenly because you are very tired.
e.g. She arrived home exhausted and barely capable of showering before collapsing on her bed.
她精疲力竭地回到家，勉强冲了个澡就倒在了床上。
5. 萎陷;内陷;瘪掉
If something with air inside collapses, it falls inwards and becomes smaller or flatter.
e.g. He plunged 300ft to the ground when his parachute collapsed...
降落伞突然瘪了，他从300英尺的高空跌落到地面。
e.g. He was rushed to hospital last week after suffering a collapsed lung.
上星期，他因出现肺萎陷而被火速送进医院。
1. Never count on mothers to buy Sanlu milk for their babies just because a national industry will collapse otherwise.
2. By the time the thieves were caught they were about to collapse from exhaustion.
3. Pollard told Reuters the 5 C estimate for triggering a collapse was a rough guide, based on an computer model.
4. A coroner's inquest has ruled that two steel workers who died in the collapse of a steel cage last year in Tsuen Wan died accidentally.
5. Four of the Italian airline's nine unions agreed on a deal proposed by CAI, the investor group formed to save the Rome - based carrier from collapse.
6. The EU's collapse would be a calamity, for the whole world.
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7. Too often, people pass a cardiac checkup only to collapse with a heart attack days later.
8. But a collapse happened at the mine entrance obstructed their efforts, and rescuers are carrying out emergent repair work.
9. The result may be a cascade of falling prices and a very rapid trend collapse as gold is sold.
10. The US economy would be highly vulnerable in the case of a euro collapse, so today's lame ducks need to embrace each other.
911查询·英语单词
noun
1. the act of throwing yourself down
e.g. he landed on the bed with a great flop
Synonym: flop
2. a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in
e.g. the roof is in danger of collapse
the collapse of the old star under its own gravity
3. a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
Synonym: crash
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4. an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
e.g. the commander's prostration demoralized his men
Synonym: prostration
verb
1. collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
Synonym: break down
2. lose significance, effectiveness, or value
e.g. The school system is collapsing
The stock market collapsed
3. suffer a nervous breakdown
Synonym: crack up crack crock up break up
4. collapse
4. break down, literally or metaphorically
e.g. The wall collapsed
The business collapsed
The dam broke
The roof collapsed
The wall gave in
The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
Synonym: fall in cave in give give way break founder
5. cause to burst
e.g. The ice broke the pipe
Synonym: burst
6. fall apart
e.g. the building crumbled after the explosion
Negotiations broke down
Synonym: crumble crumple tumble break down
7. fold or close up
e.g. fold up your umbrella
collapse the music stand