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。
This activity has occasioned some surprise since it is widely believed that the bank, carrying a large number of bad loans, is on the brink of collapse.
这一行为引起了一些意外，因为人们普遍认为，背负着大量不良贷款的这家银行正处于崩溃的边缘。
Correspondents in the city say the raids, one of them in daylight, caused the collapse of sections of the walls around the Bab al-Azizia military complex.
在该市的记者说，其中一次袭击发生在白天，导致阿齐齐亚军事基地周围的部分墙壁倒塌。
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.
在应对破坏世界粮食经济的环境恶化的过程中，我们的连续失败迫使我得出这样一个结论：这种崩溃是有可能发生的。
Since the executives are well placed to know their bank's true condition, it might seem that their share purchases show that the danger of collapse is exaggerated.
由于高管们对银行的真实状况了如指掌，他们购买的股票似乎表明崩溃的危险被夸大了。
Although church ritual had sustained an interest in timekeeping throughout the centuries of urban collapse that followed the fall of Rome, church time was nature's time.
尽管在罗马帝国灭亡后的城市崩溃的几个世纪里，教堂的仪式一直保持着人们对计时的兴趣，但教堂的时间是自然的时间。
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。
The peace talks were on the verge of collapse.
和平谈判濒于破裂。
She was taken to hospital after her collapse at work.
她在工作时晕倒后被送进了医院。
When I get home I like to collapse on the sofa and listen to music.
回到家时，我喜欢倒在沙发上听音乐。
In the end, the 1987 collapse suggested, the economy doesn't move in lockstep with stock prices.
最终，1987年股市大崩盘表明，经济与股价并不同步。
The dimensions of the market collapse, in terms of turnover and price, were certainly not anticipated.
股市崩盘的规模，无论从成交量还是价格来看，都是出乎意料的。
The collapse was disastrous, requiring the emergency medical team and good teamwork.
摔倒造成了严重的后果，需要医疗急救和良好的团队合作来进行救治。
"In the absence of this species, ecosystems stop working well and may even collapse," Di Martino says.
“如果没有这一物种，生态系统就无法正常运转，甚至可能崩溃。”迪·马蒂诺说。
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