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

• 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。
• 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？
• The decision came just as the firm moved to expand its commitment to real estate investing, even though the US mortgage market was already starting to implode.
  作出上述决定之际，该公司正要扩大房地产投资，尽管当时美国抵押贷款市场正开始内爆。
• But this would cause the financial system to implode, since the relations between assets and liabilities now in euros would become so uncertain.
  但这将导致金融体系发生内爆，因为目前以欧元计价的资产与负债之间的关联性将变得不可确定。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 collapse in valuations reflects growing concerns that many private equity-owned companies will implode as the economic contraction intensifies.
  估值暴跌反映了投资者越来越担心随着经济萎缩加剧，许多私人股本拥有的企业将会倒闭。
• He has nightmares about the tanks imploding.
  他老是做油箱爆炸的噩梦。