單詞
collapse
英 [k?'l?ps]
美[k?'l?ps]
基本信息
- vi. 倒塌；瓦解；暴跌
- vt. 使倒塌，使崩潰；使萎陷
- n. 倒塌；失敗；衰竭
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考試真題
- The author has come to agree that food shortages could ultimately lead to the collapse of world civilization.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- 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月閱讀原文
- 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月閱讀原文
- 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月閱讀原文
- In Venezuela, collapsing oil prices have sent its economy into free-fall.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- 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月聽力原文
- 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月閱讀原文
- When the bubble burst, demand collapsed
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- Rescue crews pulled a man to safety after a collapse at a construction site in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
2018年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- The immediate cause for the collapse has been Britain's slide toward recession, which has cut into consumer spending.
2015年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- Then, abruptly, the cod population collapsed.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- 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月聽力原文
- Predictions of the collapse of the tropical rain forests have been around for years.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- If the collapse of the rain forests speeds up dramatically, it could eventually release
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- 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月閱讀原文
- the collapse of rain forests is caused by direct human interference
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- 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月閱讀原文
- Today, the European Union is creating a $580 billion fund to ward off sovereign collapse
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- What stopped the American economy from collapsing in 2007?
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- It collapsed at least once in the past 1.3 million years.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- 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月聽力原文
- 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年考研閱讀原文
- 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年考研閱讀原文
- 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年考研閱讀原文
- 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年考研閱讀原文
- 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年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
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