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collapse

英 [kə'læps]美[kə'læps]
  • vi. 倒塌;瓦解;暴跌
  • vt. 使倒塌,使崩溃;使萎陷
  • n. 倒塌;失败;衰竭

考试真题


The author has come to agree that food shortages could ultimately lead to the collapse of world civilization.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Our continuing failure to deal with the environmental declines that are undermining the world food economy forces me to conclude that such a collapse is possible.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

In Venezuela, collapsing oil prices have sent its economy into free-fall.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

A 16th century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

The value of listed shares in American firms collapsed by 57% from its peak in October 2007 to a low in March this year, though it has since bounced back somewhat.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

When the bubble burst, demand collapsed

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Rescue crews pulled a man to safety after a collapse at a construction site in Brooklyn on Tuesday.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The immediate cause for the collapse has been Britain's slide toward recession, which has cut into consumer spending.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Then, abruptly, the cod population collapsed.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world’s largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

Predictions of the collapse of the tropical rain forests have been around for years.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

If the collapse of the rain forests speeds up dramatically, it could eventually release

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

In the second paragraph, the author challenges the view that the collapse of rain forests is caused by direct human interference.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

the collapse of rain forests is caused by direct human interference

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

A prime example Schweitzer and his colleagues cite is the 2004 collapse of energy-trading giant Enron, where managers used financial incentives to motivate salesmen to meet specific revenue goals.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

What stopped the American economy from collapsing in 2007?

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

It collapsed at least once in the past 1.3 million years.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Now, new evidence reveals that all or most of the Antarctic ice sheet collapsed at least once during the past

出自-2010年12月听力原文

A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 207 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee’s safety and Entergy’s management- especially after the company made misleading statements about the pipe.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

The resulting settlement maps show how the distribution and density of the rural population around the city changed dramatically between AD500 and 850, when Copán collapsed.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in society should be profit and the market.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee's safety and Entergy's management– especially after the company ma

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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