meltdown

noun

1. 核反应堆核心熔毁（导致核辐射泄漏）
   a serious accident in which the central part of a nuclear reactor melts, causing harmful radiation to escape
   1. meltdown on the New York Stock Exchange
      纽约证券市场的崩溃

1. N-VAR (核反应堆的)堆芯熔毁
   If there is meltdown in a nuclear reactor, the fuel rods start melting because of a failure in the system, and radiation starts to escape.
   1. Emergency cooling systems could fail and a reactor meltdown could occur.
      紧急冷却系统有可能失灵，核反应堆有可能发生堆芯熔毁。
2. N-UNCOUNT (公司、机构或系统的)崩溃，彻底失败
   The meltdown of a company, organization, or system is its sudden and complete failure.
   1. Urgent talks are going on to prevent the market going into financial meltdown during the summer.
      正在进行紧急会谈，以防止市场在夏季出现金融危机。

1. Emergency cooling systems could fail and a reactor meltdown could occur.
   紧急冷却系统有可能失灵，核反应堆有可能发生堆芯熔毁。
2. Urgent talks are going on to prevent the market going into financial meltdown during the summer.
   正在进行紧急会谈，以防止市场在夏季出现金融危机。
3. And believe it or not, that's just the beginning of Gunner's meltdown.
   而且不管你信不信，这仅仅是Gunner崩溃的开始。
4. If 2008 was the year of the banking meltdown, then 2009 was the year of the stimulus packages.
   如果2008年是银行彻底垮台的一年，那么2009年就是一篮子刺激政策的一年。
5. First, China's economic slowdown is not an economic meltdown.
   首先，中国经济放缓并不是滑坡式的下跌。
6. Second, would a slowdown, or even a massive financial meltdown lead to widespread disruption in Chinese society?
   第二，中国经济放缓，甚至大范围的金融危机是否会导致中国社会土崩瓦解？
7. Greece over-borrowed and overspent, then got caught in accounting shenanigans and the global financial meltdown.
   希腊的问题是借债过度、消费过度，又中了会计把戏和全球金融危机的着。
8. Those loans, many of them considered predatory, lit the fuse that led to the global financial meltdown.
   这些贷款其中许多被认为是掠夺性的点燃了全球金融体系崩溃的导火索。
9. Regulators and business leaders continue to try to figure out how decision-makers'missteps may have triggered the economic meltdown.
   监管者和企业领导者继续想找出决策者失误如何可能引起了经济崩溃。
10. The global financial meltdown reflects in no small part the failure of meaningful boardroom scrutiny.
    全球金融灾难深刻反映了有意义的董事会监督职能的失败。
11. No, I am not talking about the subprime meltdown and the possible recession that looms on the horizon.
    不，我并不在说垮台的次级房债和可能到来的全球性经济不景气。
12. FIVE months after a tsunami and nuclear meltdown assailed Japan, the economy has been pummelled by fresh blows.
    五个月前的海啸和核泄漏事件让日本受到重创，而如今日本经济正惨遭新一轮打击。
13. Experts have not ruled out the possibility of a complete meltdown.
    专家们还没有排除反应炉核心完全熔毁的可能性。
14. Has the worst economic meltdown since the Second World War really changed the banking industry for good?
    这场自二战以来最严重的经济危机是否确实永远改变了银行业？
15. More than three years after taking the world to the brink of economic meltdown, banks remain heavily troubled.
    在将世界推到经济崩溃边缘三年多之后，银行业仍然深陷困境。
16. The IMF, ECB, and the commission have a last chance to respond before a eurozone meltdown.
    在欧元区解体之前，IMF、欧洲央行和欧盟委员会还有最后一次采取行动的机会。
17. The administration did, after all, avert the threat of a complete meltdown of the banking industry.
    毕竟，奥巴马政府避免了银行业彻底崩盘的威胁。
18. The resulting meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Fukushima and disruption to economic activity slashed demand at home.
    地震导致福岛核电站发生核泄漏，经济活动中断，削弱了日本国内需求。
19. The risk of a reactor meltdown there is awful enough.
    日本核反应堆熔毁的风险已经够可怕的了。
20. Worries about the Greek economy's potential meltdown have sent jitters through world markets.
    对希腊经济可能崩溃的担忧使国际市场战战兢兢。
21. Central clearing protected the markets for equity-option, gold-future and energy-future derivatives during the meltdown last year.
    在去年危机期间，集中清算保护了股票期权、黄金期货以及能源期货衍生品市场。
22. Jimmy, you have no idea the level Four meltdown I witnessed.
    jimmy，你根本想象不出来我看到彻底崩溃的程度。
23. Could a repeat of last season's meltdown occur again?
    上个赛季的突然崩溃还会再次发生吗？
24. As the meltdown in Iceland last autumn showed, an economy can be overwhelmed by its banking system.
    去年秋季冰岛的崩溃就已表明，一国经济可能被自身的银行体系压垮。
25. The natural disaster also triggered the meltdown of reactors at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture.
    这次天灾还对位于福岛县的一座核电厂的核反应堆造成严重破坏。
26. So the "price" for avoiding deflation may be a bond market meltdown, your quintessential financial crisis.
    因此，消除通缩的“代价”可能是债券市场垮台，这是最典型的金融危机。
27. This is insurance against a financial meltdown.
    这是抵御金融体系崩溃的保险。
28. The resulting partial meltdown and radiation leaks represented the world's most severe nuclear power accident since Chernobyl in1986.
    由冷却系统失灵引发的部分堆心熔毁和核泄漏导致了自1986年切尔诺贝利核电站事故后的世界最严重核事故。
29. It was the discounts offered to get this stock moving that caused the financial meltdown.
    降价解决了存货的销路，也造成了巨大经济损失。

noun

1. a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown
   1. there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933

2. severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping

   Synonym:    nuclear meltdown