meltdown 英 [ˈmeltdaʊn]   美 [ˈmɛltˌdaʊn]

meltdown

meltdown  英 [ˈmeltdaʊn] 美 [ˈmɛltˌdaʊn]

n. 灾难;彻底垮台;熔化;暴跌 

名词复数:meltdowns 

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。
If nothing else, the recent meltdown in the housing market has forced everyone to rethink the fundamentals of what a house is and what it can be. 如果没有别的,那么,近来住房市场中的灾难已经迫使每一个人重新思考住宅是什么而且可能是什么的基本原则。

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  • n. 灾难;彻底垮台;熔化;暴跌
  • 1. 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。

  • 2. If nothing else, the recent meltdown in the housing market has forced everyone to rethink the fundamentals of what a house is and what it can be.

    如果没有别的,那么,近来住房市场中的灾难已经迫使每一个人重新思考住宅是什么而且可能是什么的基本原则。

  • 3. And Wall Street’s meltdown raises the same questions as the crises of a decade ago: what will the direct effects on emerging markets be?

    而华尔街的灾难提出了与十年前金融危机相同的问题:这场灾难将会给新兴市场带来什么直接影响?

  • meltdown (n.) by 1937 in the ice-cream industry; by 1956 in reference to a nuclear reactor, from verbal phrase, from melt (v.) + down (adv.). Metaphoric extension since 1979.
melt·down / ˈmeltdaʊn ; NAmE ˈmeltdaʊn / noun [uncountable ,  countable ] 1 a serious accident in which the central part of a nuclear reactormelts, causing harmful radiationto escape 核反应堆核心熔毁(导致核辐射泄漏) 2 ( economics ) a situation where sth fails or becomes weaker in a sudden or dramatic way 崩溃;垮台 The country is ineconomic meltdown. 该国的经济崩溃。 a meltdown on the New York Stock Exchange 纽约股票市场的崩盘 meltdown meltdowns melt·down / ˈmeltdaʊn ; NAmE ˈmeltdaʊn /
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