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。
• Just when you thought the day couldn't get any better, Chelsea imploded at Spurs.
  就在你觉得这一天已经很爽的时候，切尔西被热刺干了。
• In the 10 months since Lehman imploded, Chinese companies have gone on an unprecedented buying spree.
  雷曼兄弟破产以后的10个月期间，中国公司掀起了一股规模空前的收购热潮。
• 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。
• 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。
• If their shares had not imploded, would the government have stepped in to save RBS and the others?
  如果它们的股价没有崩溃，政府会插手拯救苏格兰皇家银行（RBS）和其它机构吗？
• He's very disillusioned with the present government. Our dream isnt't dead, It has imploded.
  他对现政府的幻想完全破灭了。我们的梦想没有完会破灭，只是变得虚幻缥渺了。
• 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。
• If unemployment has exploded upwards it can only be because, after Lehman imploded, workers chose to take a holiday.
  如果失业率大幅上升，那只能是因为在雷曼（Lehman）破产后，工人们选择了休假。
• The Hacienda Hotel was imploded in1996 to make room for the gigantic Mandalay Bay Resort.
  该庄园酒店是在1996年破裂，使度假村空间巨大的曼德勒湾。