implosion

英 [ɪm'pləʊʒən] 美 [ɪm'ploʒən]
  • n. 向内破裂;内破裂音

英文词源


implosion (n.)
"a bursting inward," 1829, modeled on explosion, with assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)).
And to show how entire the neglect and confusion have been, they speak in the same breath of all these explosions, and of the explosion of a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, the result of which, instead of being a gas or an enlargement of bulk, a positive quantity, is a negative one. It is a vacuum, in a popular sense, because the produce is water. The result is an implosion (to coin a word), not an explosion .... ["Gas-light," "Westminster Review," October 1829]
In early use often in reference to effect of deep sea pressures, or in phonetics. Figurative sense is by 1960.

双语例句


1. The population explosion is accompanied by a population implosion.
人**炸还伴随着人**聚.

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2. But any is preferable to the implosion of the euro zone.
但是,采纳任何一种措施都比欧元区崩溃要强.

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3. But the movement's implosion is nevertheless astonishing.
然而,这场运动的内爆令人震惊.

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4. It'said the implosion had the power of the atom bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki.
据说,此次核试验的爆炸力相当于美国在长崎投放的力量.

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5. A year on, the threat of implosion of another prime broker has receded.
一年过去了, 大宗经纪商再次出现破产的威胁已经减弱.

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