imploded

英 [ɪmˈpləʊdɪd]

美 [ɪmˈploʊdɪd]

v.  向心聚爆; 内爆; 向内坍塌; 突然崩溃
implode的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 内爆;向心聚爆;向心压挤
  If somethingimplodes, it collapses into itself in a sudden and violent way.
  1. The engine imploded...
     发动机内爆了。
  2. He has nightmares about the tanks imploding.
     他老是做油箱爆炸的噩梦。
• VERB 崩溃;瓦解
  If something such as an organization or a systemimplodes, it suddenly ends completely because it cannot deal with the problems it is experiencing.
  1. ...the possibility that the party may implode in opposition.
     该党派于在野期间瓦解的可能性

双语例句

• I am in that second category: in 1991, the community where I was living in the USSR imploded unexpectedly into a brutal civil war, leaving me haunted by the awareness that seemingly impregnable systems can sometimes be very fragile.
  我属于第二种：1991年，我所生活的前苏联社会出人意料地陷入了残酷的内战，这让我痛苦地意识到，表面上牢不可破的体系有时也会非常脆弱。
• After several years of work, the project imploded.
  几年的工作后，项目功亏一篑。
• Banks with high capital ratios, such as Lehman Brothers and Iceland's lenders, imploded, while those with lower ratios survived.
  当那些低资本比率的银行幸免于难的时候，拥有高的资本比率的银行，如雷曼兄弟和冰岛信贷，破产了。
• An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poo.
  短命的婚姻闪电般地破裂，我还失业了，成了一个艰难的单身母亲。
• Then entire countries such as Iceland, Greece and Ireland imploded in economic turmoil.
  其后，冰岛、希腊和爱尔兰等整个整个的国家在经济动荡中崩溃。
• The boom, which lasted for most of the last decade, imploded in 2008 when the credit crunch cut off its life blood.
  2008年的信贷危机切断了经济的生命线，进而让这段延续了差不多10年的繁荣期宣告终结。
• The Department of justice is investigating the company for giving subprime mortgage securities top ratings just before they imploded.
  美国司法部（TheDepartmentofJustice）正在对该公司就其在次级抵押贷款证券崩盘前仍给予这些证券最高评级一事展开调查。
• Before the broker imploded, most onlookers had assumed western governments would never let a large institution fail.
  在雷曼破产前，多数观望者本以为西方政府决不会让一家大型金融机构破产。
• Troublesome global inflation disappeared as the world economy imploded in late 2008, but price rises are again being feared around the world.
  随着全球经济在2008年底出现衰退，令人讨厌的通货膨胀现象消失了，而现在，世界各地正再次担心价格上涨。
• One reason why "Hillarycare" imploded was that Mrs Clinton failed to court the barons on Capitol Hill.
  “希拉里保健”改革提案破灭的一个原因就是，克林顿女士对国会山的政要不够殷勤。