The bridge is liable to collapse at any moment.
那座桥随时可能坍塌。
A few days after his collapse he was sitting up in bed.
他病倒后过了几天就在床上起身坐着了。
The walls were strengthened to protect them from collapse.
围墙已加固以防倒塌。
The governor called for an inquiry into the motorway's collapse.
州长要求对高速公路的坍塌进行调查。
The medical system is facing collapse because of an exodus of doctors.
由于医生大批离去,该医疗体系正面临崩溃。
The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented.
除非实施影响深远的改革,否则经济就有崩溃的危险。
The article predicates that the market collapse was caused by weakness of the dollar.
这篇文章声言,市场的崩溃是美元疲软造成的。
The earthquake was the occasion of the building's collapse.
地震是建筑物倒塌的起因。
This works in both directions: beggars become kings, palaces collapse into shelters.
这是双向的:乞丐变成了国王,宫殿坍塌成了避难所。
During a 1995 roof collapse, a fire fighter named Donald Herbert was left brain damaged.
在1995年的一次屋顶坍塌事故中,消防员唐纳德·赫伯特的左脑受损。
Larger and larger villages became possible, but this also made the system vulnerable to collapse.
可能会出现(规模)越来越大的村庄,但这也使得这一系统容易崩溃。
Without this muscular action, inhaling is like sucking air out of a balloon—the narrow passages tend to collapse.
如果没有这种肌肉运动,吸气就像从气球里吸出空气一样——狭窄的通道往往会坍塌。
The second was the earthquake that hit China's Sichuan Province in 2008, causing the collapse of poorly constructed buildings.
第二次是2008年发生在中国四川省的地震,那次地震导致一些劣质建筑倒塌。
The collapse of their isolated civilization, Diamond writes, is a "worst-case scenario for what may lie ahead of us in our own future".
戴蒙德写道,他们的孤立文明的崩溃,是“我们未来可能面临的最糟糕的情况”。
While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, they had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain—a trait called lodging.
虽然较高的小麦能更好地争夺阳光,但它们在额外谷粒的重压下会有倒塌的倾向——这种特性被称为倒伏。
Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.
现在,第三个也是更重要的动机出现了:为了防止我们文明的崩溃,这些目标可能是必须要实现的。
Unfortunately, because this approach fails to deal with the underlying causes of inflation, wage and price controls eventually collapse, the hitherto-repressed inflation resurfaces.
不幸的是,由于这种方法未能解决通胀的根本原因,工资和价格控制最终崩溃,迄今为止受到压制的通胀再次出现。
She looked ready to collapse at any minute.
她看样子随时都会倒下。
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