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？
• 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 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。
• They can suddenly gain millions of users and huge valuations and just as abruptly lose appeal and implode.
  这类公司可以在一夜之间拥有数百万用户和高额估值，但是又会在顷刻之间失去吸引力，一败涂地。
• China could implode, India could stall and the European Union could continue to convert itself into a giant version of Switzerland.
  中国有可能出现内爆，印度有可能陷入停滞，而欧盟则可能会继续把自己变成一个超大版的瑞士。
• Greek politics could implode.
  希腊政治可能从内部土崩瓦解。
• Some part of her worried that it would eventually implode.
  她的一部分担忧最终会这会内向爆炸。
• There are plenty of reasons for China's stock market bubble to implode, but most are internal.
  有很多因素都可能导致中国股市泡沫破裂，但多数都是内因。
• 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。
• Not only is Japan's economy contracting at least twice as fast as its peers, with data yesterday showing the worst quarterly performance for a third of a century, but Japanese politics also seem about to implode.
  日前公布的数据显示，日本上季度的经济表现是三十多年来最糟糕的。该国不仅经济萎缩幅度至少相当于同等国家的两倍，其政局似乎也将从内部崩塌。