| 单词 | meltdown |
| 释义 | meltdown (meltdaʊn ) Word forms: meltdowns 1. variable noun 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. Emergency cooling systems could fail and a reactor meltdown could occur. 2. uncountable noun The meltdown of a company, organization, or system is its sudden and complete failure. [journalism] Urgent action is needed to prevent the market going into financial meltdown. Collocations: complete meltdown 'It is a good old-fashioned, bad result for a party in power rather than a complete meltdown,' he said. Times, Sunday Times (2006) He has, almost uniquely, presided over the complete meltdown of an economy that was, arguably, the most successful in Africa. Times, Sunday Times (2011) And given that governments around the globe seem determined to prop up the financial system, the prospect of a complete meltdown is receding. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The social welfare systems that might have helped them have collapsed in the country 's economic meltdown. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Yet this is the capital of a country without an elected government that could be on the brink of economic meltdown. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The economic meltdown has made that access look less enticing as the funds' investments have been hit hard. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Today he will take on the puny plotters and spell out how to save Britain from economic meltdown. The Sun (2008) Set against the backdrop of global economic meltdown, it seems shocking. Times, Sunday Times (2008) She said the IMF would do all it could to stop a global meltdown. The Sun (2011) A moral crisis is to blame for the global economic meltdown. Times, Sunday Times (2009) More regulation did not stop New York becoming the centre of the global meltdown. Times, Sunday Times (2008) How did you learn about the partial meltdown in one of the reactors? Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Officials admitted it was 'highly likely' a partial meltdown had already occurred. The Sun After a failure of the cooling system the reactor core appears to have seriously overheated, leading to a partial meltdown and a build-up of pressure. Times, Sunday Times He watched a storage tank being swept away: a tank, it later turned out, that contained the vital supply of diesel that might have saved the plant from partial meltdown. Times, Sunday Times Plant operators initially failed to recognize the loss of coolant, resulting in a partial meltdown. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 堆芯熔毁核反应堆的, 崩溃核反应堆的 Japanese: 炉心溶融, 崩壊 |
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