collapse

vi. 倒塌；瓦解；暴跌

vt. 使倒塌，使崩溃；使萎陷

n. 倒塌；失败；衰竭

vi.

折叠；倒塌；崩溃；（尤指工作劳累后）坐下

vt.

使倒塌；使坍塌；使瓦解；

n.

垮台；（身体的）衰弱；

变形

过去式：collapsed过去分词：collapsed现在分词：collapsing第三人称单数：collapses

双语释义

vi. & vt. (使)倒塌,塌陷 make to fall down or in; come or break to pieces suddenly

vi. & vt. (使)崩溃 (cause to) fail suddenly and completely; break down

英英释义

collapse

n.

an abrupt failure of function or health

a mishap caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in

the act of throwing yourself down

同义词：flop

a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

同义词：crash

v.

break down, literally or metaphorically

"The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The roof collapsed"

同义词：fall incave ingivegive waybreakfounder

collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack

同义词：break down

fold or close up

"collapse the music stand"

fall apart

同义词：crumblecrumpletumblebreak down

cause to burst

同义词：burst

suffer a nervous breakdown

同义词：crack upcrackcrock upbreak up

lose significance, effectiveness, or value

"The stock market collapsed"

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

collapse bridge压塌桥梁

collapse building建筑物倒塌

collapse heart使心理崩溃

collapse house压塌房屋

collapse railway使铁轨塌陷

collapse roof压塌屋顶

～+副词

collapse completely完全倒塌

collapse entirely彻底崩溃

collapse invariably永远倒塌

collapse utterly完全倒塌

～+介词

collapse for折叠

collapse from由于…而倒塌

collapse under被…压塌

词组短语

collapse mechanism破坏机构

collapse strength抗挤强度；破裂强度

collapse load损毁荷载，极限载荷；破坏负荷；临界纵向荷载

同近义词辨析

disaster灾难

dilemma窘境，困境

collapse崩溃

epidemic流行病

这组词都有“倒塌”的意思，其区别是：

fall一般指由于失去平衡等原因而倒塌，也可作引申用。

collapse通常指房屋等突然倒塌。

双语例句

用作动词(v.)

The roof collapsed under the weight of snow.
房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

If you work too hard,your health may collapse.
如果你工作太累的话，你可能病倒。

The enterprise collapsed through lack of support.
该企业因无力支持而倒闭。

He collapsed the wheelchair and put it on the boat.
他将轮椅折叠起来放在船上。

用作名词(n.)

A flood caused the collapse of the bridge.
洪水使桥倒塌了。

The stock market was on the brink of collapse.
股市已到崩盘的边缘。

The market collapse was caused by weakness of the dollar.
市场价格暴跌是由于美元疲弱引起的。

权威例句

collapse (v.)

1732, from Latin collapsus, past participle of collabi "fall together," from com- "together" (see com-) + labi "to fall, slip" (see lapse (n.)). The adjective collapsed is attested from c. 1600, from Latin collapsus, and perhaps this suggested a verb. Related: Collapsing.

collapse (n.)

1801, from collapse (v.).

1. They do like to collapse.

它们确实喜欢崩溃。

2. The answer to your question – what will we learn from this collapse?

对你的问题的回答——我们将从这次崩溃中学到什么？

3. One advantage of doing so is that it should minimize any growth collapse.

这么做的一个好处是，它应该能够最小化任何增长崩溃。

4. One advantage of doing so is that it should minimise any growth collapse.

这么做的一个好处是，它应该能够最小化任何增长崩溃。

5. The predictions of economic and political collapse have not materialized at all.

预言中的政治和经济上的崩溃根本就没有发生。

6. But researchers say they do not know if this virus causes a colony to collapse.

但研究人员说，他们不知道，如果这一病毒的原因，一个殖民地崩溃。

7. This event hastened the collapse of the economy.

这起事件加快了经济崩溃的进程。

8. If I have understood you correctly, you are proposing to do nothing to prevent the likely collapse of industrial civilisation.

如果我对你的理解正确的话，你在主张不做任何事情去防止可能的工业文明的崩溃。

9. There are methods that let you expand and collapse each node.

并且还有各种方法让您能扩展和折叠每个节点。

10. Imagine if you could do the same with behaviors -- if you could just as easily assign behaviors to a table cell, like expand and collapse, highlight or scroll, as you could set its background color.

设想，如果可以这样处理行为——假设您可以像设置其背景颜色那样轻松地将行为分配给一个表的单元格，比如是展开还是折叠，是突出显示还是滚动。

11. Yet, the ultimate cause of the collapse is the reckless behavior and not the bet against its sustainability.

然而，崩溃的最终原因是鲁莽的行为，而不是针对其可持续性的投机赌博行为。

12. The wells should be upright and not collapse in a period of time.

能源井的制作要求垂直度好，能在较长时间内不坍塌；

13. Here we have two forces that may influence, for the better, our ideas about our culture in a world that is in need of newparadigms, as it seems to be at the brink of collapse in every aspect.

我们有两种可能影响的力量，更好地说，我们关于世界上（ “世界上”好像没必要翻？ ）自己文化的观念急需新的典范，因为这观念在各个方面看起来都在崩溃的边缘。

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

它完全是一种人生观，某天这种观念将不可思议地成为一种束缚，一种痛苦，然后这种观点会倒塌。

15. When I ask myself this question, is not to prove I have close to collapse?

当我问自己这个问题的时候，是不是证明我已接近崩溃？

16. The design of the aqua droids allows for their feet to collapse and function as propellers.

水鬼机器人的设计让它们的脚可以象螺旋桨一样折叠和运转。

17. But let me ask you, how does this statement sound right now, with the global financial system on the verge of collapse?

但是，我要提问，随着全球金融系统走向崩溃的边缘，这种说法现在怎么听起来就是正确的呢?

18. But adjustment is not collapse.

但调整不代表着崩溃。

19. Some election lawyers said that the decision, if upheld, could lead to the collapse of all legal limits on campaign donations, whether from corporations or individuals.

一些选举法律师认为，如果该裁决得以实施，将导致所有的竞选捐款法律限额全盘崩溃，不管是公司或个人捐款。

20. But they did not predict the collapse of the US mortgage market.

但是他们没有预料到美国次贷级市场的崩溃。

21. You can collapse the others to save space.

您可以折叠其他窗格以节省空间。

22. For example, we can’t afford to run a simulation model for an hour or two to find out what’s going to happen when an event occurs that could cause the grid to collapse in the next 20 or 30 seconds.

例如，电网中发生的某一事件可能导致电网在20或30秒内崩溃，在这种情况下，不可能运行一个模拟模型，花上一两个小时去查明发生的情况，这样的代价我们承担不起。

23. For example, we can’t afford to run a simulation model for an hour or two to find out what’s going to happen when an event occurs that could cause the grid to collapse in the next 20 or 30 seconds.

例如，电网中发生的某一事件可能导致电网在20或30秒内崩溃，在这种情况下，不可能运行一个模拟模型，花上一两个小时去查明发生的情况，这样的代价我们承担不起。