implode

英 [ɪmˈpləʊd]

美 [ɪmˈploʊd]

v.  向心聚爆; 内爆; 向内坍塌; 突然崩溃

过去式：imploded　过去分词：imploded　第三人称单数：implodes　现在分词：imploding　复数：implodes　

GRE电力

BNC.37122 / COCA.17574

牛津词典

verb

• 向心聚爆；内爆；向内坍塌
  to burst or explode and collapse into the centre
• 突然崩溃
  to fail suddenly and completely

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

英英释义

verb

• burst inward
  1. The bottle imploded
  Synonym:go off

双语例句

• And we know, and especially Carolyn, that when the sun will implode, the earth will burn, explode, I don't know what, and this is scheduled for four, four billion years?
  而我们知道，尤其是Carolyn，当太阳内爆，地球会焚烧、爆炸，我也不知道，而这将发生在四十亿年后？
• He has nightmares about the tanks imploding.
  他老是做油箱爆炸的噩梦。
• It led bankers into blind faith in their mathematical forecasting models. It led governments and regulators to discount the possibility that financial markets could implode.
  它令银行家盲从于自己的数学预测模型，令政府和监管机构低估金融市场内爆的可能性。
• Greece has been an early casualty as its stocks and government bond markets have been sold off during the past few weeks amid worries that, once emergency support from the European Central Bank is removed, the economy will implode.
  由于市场担心一旦欧洲央行（ECB）撤销紧急支持措施，该国经济将会崩盘，希腊股市及政府债券市场在过去几周遭遇抛售。
• The engine imploded
  发动机内爆了。
• The answer, as Ms Reinhart and I demonstrate, drawing on centuries of financial crises, is to look particularly for situations with large rapid surges in leverage and asset prices, surges that can suddenly implode if confidence fades.
  正如莱因哈特和我所证明的那样，答案要在数百年的金融危机史中寻找，着重寻找杠杆率和资产价格迅速大幅升高的情况，一旦信心消退，这种激增现象就可能会突然崩溃。
• But when growth stalls, or even slows, they tend to implode as the network effect goes into reverse.
  可一旦停止增长，甚至只是增长放缓，随着网络效应发生逆转，这些公司就有可能崩溃。
• The last speculative gold bubble, in 1980, took four years to implode, while this latest reincarnation is seven years in the making.
  上次发生在1980年的黄金投机泡沫，花了四年时间破裂，而此次泡沫的形成就耗时七年。
• 'I think the airlines are going to see their industry implode because people are going to stop flying,'she said.
  她说，我认为航空公司将会面临困境，因为人们都不坐飞机了。
• At that level, slightly higher than what utilities and other boring stocks yield, financial groups will have to lure investors with the twin promise that they are both best in class and much less likely to implode every decade or so.
  这个水平仅略高于公用事业及其它乏味股票的回报率，金融机构将不得不用双重承诺来吸引投资者：它们不仅是同行中的佼佼者，而且不太会过个十来年就破产一回。