核心畫面
Picture a building that has been holding itself up suddenly giving way — the walls cave in and the whole thing drops to the ground in a heap. The core picture is something that was standing and supporting itself losing its support all at once and falling/ in. Everything else borrows that sudden, total give-way: a person, a company, prices, even a lung.
可以想成一棟原本撐得好好的房子突然撐不住了——牆面向內塌陷，整棟轟然倒成一堆。可以把核心畫面想成：一個本來立著、自己…更多收起
可以想成一棟原本撐得好好的房子突然撐不住了——牆面向內塌陷，整棟轟然倒成一堆。可以把核心畫面想成：一個本來立著、自己撐著自己的東西，支撐一下子全失去，於是塌下去、垮下來。後面所有用法都借這個「驟然、徹底地撐不住而垮掉」的感覺——不管垮的是人、是公司、是價格，還是一片肺葉。原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
collapseverb/kəˈlæps/
- 1
To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.
- 2
To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse.
- However much we like to think of ourselves as something special in world history, in fact industrial societies are subject to the same principles that caused earlier societies to collapse.
- 3
To fold compactly.
- 4
To conflate, to ignore the distinctions between.
- 5
computingengineeringmathematicsIn a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
- 6
ball-gamescricketgamesTo suffer a batting collapse.
- Immediately after his wicket the team collapsed for 69.
- 7
To cause something to collapse.
- Hurry up and collapse the tent so we can get moving.
- Thomas added: "We presented our experiences of frantically trying to collapse a pram, surrounded by loads of grumpy commuters.
- 8
To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
- The exhausted singer collapsed on stage and had to be taken to the hospital.
collapsenoun/kəˈlæps/
- 1
The act of collapsing.
- She suffered a terrible collapse after slipping on the wet floor.
- in a state of nervous collapse
- 2
Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。