Collapse

(noun.) a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in; 'the roof is in danger of collapse'; 'the collapse of the old star under its own gravity'.

(noun.) an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion; 'the commander's prostration demoralized his men'.

(verb.) lose significance, effectiveness, or value; 'The school system is collapsing'; 'The stock market collapsed'.

(verb.) break down, literally or metaphorically; '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'.

(verb.) cause to burst; 'The ice broke the pipe'.

(verb.) fold or close up; 'fold up your umbrella'; 'collapse the music stand'.

整理:泰丝

• And so they produced a moral collapse by not assenting to it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Upon no part of Europe did the collapse of the idea of a unified Christendom bring more disastrous consequences than to Germany. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This awful revolution, wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, may be usefully applied to the useful instruction of the present age. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was premature disillusionment that caused the Russian collapse. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Thus all the clocks in the series could be regulated every hour, for the collapse of the clippers pushed the hand forward if it were too late, or thrust it back if it had gained. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• So it was in utter social decay and collapse that the great slave-holding world-ascendancy of the God-C?sars and the rich men of Rome came to an end. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The false bonds are best broken: with their collapse would come a release of social energy into political discussion. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I gave him a little brandy and left him collapsed in a chair, while I made a most careful examination of the room. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The revolution collapsed utterly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The next the whole frame collapsed again, and Holmes had gone as quickly as he had come. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Eventually, in the year 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Hor Vastus turned in the direction indicated by Carthoris, and as his eyes fell upon me he was like to have collapsed from sheer surprise. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a glitter of moisture on his brow. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Four old Michigan Central cars with rotten sills collapsed in the ditch and went all to pieces, distributing figs, raisins, dates, and candies all over the track and the vicinity. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mr Dolls, collapsing in the drowsiest manner after his late intellectual triumph, replied: 'Threepenn'orth Rum. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But everywhere now the Hohenzollern and Habsburg forces were collapsing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You do not know the South, Mr. Thornton,' she concluded, collapsing into a determined silence, and angry with herself for having said so much. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• One of these is an imitation of the duck's foot, which expands when it strikes the water, and collapses when it is withdrawn. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• For him the world collapses. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• At this point the whole routineer scheme of things collapses, there is a period of convulsion and C?sarean births, and men weary of excitement sink back into a newer routine. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The splendid opening of the story of Islam collapses suddenly into this squalid dispute and bickering of heirs and widows. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But once you see the state as a provider of civilizing opportunities, his whole objection collapses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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