Breaking down electronics into small parts for refiners to melt and purify is another part of the business.

VOA: special.2010.11.01

breaking down maybe, crashing, coming back to earth like Icarus, the over-reacher.

可能会损坏它，彻底的，回到地面,像伊卡洛斯一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Death is basically just the breaking down of the body, on the physicalist point of view, so that it no longer functions properly.

死亡从根本上说就是我们肉体的损坏,在物理主义看来,肉体再也不能正常工作了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"So when I came out of the Army, I had already decided I wanted to be a part of breaking down segregation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

While the New Critics, in a variety of ways, insist that form is meaning, form is content and so on, they're still not really breaking down the distinction between form and content.

新批评主义者们认为，形式就是意义，形式就是内容，但是他们还是没有打破,形式和内容的区别。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"And,what you see is a new economy breaking through what's breaking down: that heavy,industrialized, over-ambitious,over-productive, over-consumptive model, which is actually going to completely destroy our chancesof survival in the future.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Of course, the cyclic steps that we've taken to do this apply not just for breaking down reactants and product into the elements in their standards states, but of course we could also look at whole sets of reactions and write cycles as well, right.

当然，我们这里用的循环的,步骤不仅仅在把生成物,和反应物拆成其标准状态下,的元素时有效,我们也可以研究整个一系列,反应并写出相应循环。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选