VERB 内爆;向心聚爆;向心压挤 If something implodes, it collapses into itself in a sudden and violent way.
The engine imploded... 发动机内爆了。
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 system implodes, it suddenly ends completely because it cannot deal with the problems it is experiencing.
...the possibility that the party may implode in opposition. 该党派于在野期间瓦解的可能性
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。
Greece became the epicenter of Europes debt crisis after Wall Street imploded in 2008. 2008年,美国华尔街爆发了金融危机。希腊成为欧洲债务危机的重灾区。
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。
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。
If you think that hedge funds have escaped the crisis, just think about what would happen if the credit default swap market imploded. 如果你认为对冲基金已经逃脱了危机,那就想想如果信贷违约掉期市场发生内爆,将会带来什么后果。
After the telecom market imploded, the technology demonstrated the versatility that Gruber had originally perceived. 在通讯市场崩盘之后,这项新的技术展现了葛鲁柏早就察觉到的多样性。
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。
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?
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。
This year lots of frauds we have been aware of for some time have imploded. 汉普顿说,我们在一段时间以前就已经知晓的很多欺诈行为已在今年败露;
Even before the western financial world imploded – stoking fears of a global recession that has chilled the hearts of car buyers, even in faraway China – industry analysts were expecting a slowdown in Chinese car sales this year. 西方金融界的崩溃引发了人们对全球经济衰退的担忧,购车意愿已经冷却,即使是在遥远的中国。但在这场崩溃出现之前,业内分析人士就已预料到今年中国汽车销售将会放缓。
They had to fail, as they would in any event have imploded upon themselves. 它们必须舍弃,因为它们在任何的事件中都只会暴露自身的不足。
After long term capital management imploded in 1997, the models were to blame. 在1997年长期资本管理公司(long-termcapitalmanagement)的垮台中,数学模型也受到指责。
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。
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。
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。
US car unions proved much more amenable after their industry all but imploded during the financial crisis. 汽车产业在金融危机期间濒临崩溃后,美国汽车业工会就变通了许多。
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。
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。
After several years of work, the project imploded. 几年的工作后,项目功亏一篑。
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。
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。
Hedge funds are having their worst start to the year on record after March turned into one of the ugliest months for popular strategies and several funds imploded. 对冲基金正在经历有记录以来最差的年度开局3月份成为常用基金策略表现最糟糕的月份之一,数家基金出现内爆。
One of London's most successful hedge funds imploded yesterday when Peloton Partners put the assets of its$ 2bn flagship fund up for sale and froze its remaining fund after geared mortgage bets left it unable to meet lenders 'demands. 伦敦最为成功的对冲基金之一昨日爆出问题,PelotonPartners将其旗舰基金20亿美元的资产进行标售,并冻结了其剩余的资金。此前抵押贷款相关投资使得该基金无力满足贷方的需求。
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。
More specifically, when Bear Stearns, a large US stockbroker, imploded back in March, some thought that might be the biggest upheaval the crisis would bring-not least because the markets rallied after bear was acquired by JPMorgan Chase. 具体而言,美国大型券商贝尔斯登(bearstearns)3月份发生内爆时,有些人猜测,这可能就是这场危机造成的最大剧变部分原因是因为摩根大通收购贝尔斯登后,市场出现了反弹。