| 单词 | collide |
| 释义 | collide (kəlaɪd ) Word forms: collides , colliding , collided 1. verb If two or more moving people or objects collide, they crash into one another. If a moving person or object collides with a person or object that is not moving, they crash into them. Two trains collided head-on in north-eastern Germany early this morning. [VERB] Racing up the stairs, he almost collided with Daisy. [VERB + with] He collided with a pine tree near the North Gate. [VERB + with] Synonyms: crash, clash, meet head-on, come into collision 2. verb If the aims, opinions, or interests of one person or group collide with those of another person or group, they are very different from each other and are therefore opposed. The aims of the negotiators in New York again seem likely to collide with the aims of the warriors in the field. [VERB + with] What happens when the two interests collide will make a fascinating spectacle. [VERB] Collocations: collide head-on Your dream may have collided head-on with a roadblock. Christianity Today (2000) The car collided head-on with a lorry laden with cement. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945 (2003) Today's networked corporations and governments are formidably complex, often creating conflict as incompatible technologies and cultures collide. Times, Sunday Times Pupils and teachers find their lives and cultures collide in often funny, heart-warming scenes. The Sun Two segregated comprehensive schools have been forced to merge into one academy because of budget cuts, and lives and cultures collide, with all the high drama that entails. Times, Sunday Times When the particles collide with the gases in the ionosphere they glow, producing a spectacular array of colours - primarily red, green, blue and violet. Times, Sunday Times The particles collide with each other in these whirlwinds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The walls represent the magnetic mirrors with whom the cosmic particles collide. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When two such particles collide, they annihilate each other, so that at each step the number of particles remains unchanged or decreases. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With slightly stronger winds, particles collide in mid-air, causing sheet flows. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Where these plates collide, the crust buckles to thrust up mountain ranges. The Sun When two tectonic plates collide, one of the plates may slide under the other, a process known as subduction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Where two continental plates collide the plates either buckle and compress or (in some cases) one plate delves called subduction, under the other. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 So what happens when these two worlds collide? The Sun Worlds collide in this low-budget sci-fi puzzle, the gimmick being that those worlds are remarkably similar. Times, Sunday Times Two worlds have definitely collided and when two worlds collide, things happen. Times, Sunday Times And when the two worlds collide, things can get terrifically awkward. Times,Sunday Times As their worlds collide the allegories about intolerance come thick and fast. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 碰撞 Japanese: 衝突する |
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